Printing for Publishers

The Power of a Book

Reading engages one's imagination and what a better way to learn, relax, and explore the impossible. We work with authors and publishers to bring their words to the forefront with the astonishing process of placing ink on paper to give the reader a physical, weighted product that doesn't involve looking into a lit up screen.

Forum Printing Prints Books

Throughout the years, Forum Communications Printing has printed numerous book titles for a variety of different authors and publishers with millions of finished books leaving our facilities. Our primary focus has been children’s and educational books for clients across the United States, but we can also help with your fiction, nonfiction, and biographical publishing needs.

Book Binding Options

Hardcover Binding

Are You Looking for Side-sewn, Reinforced Library Hardcover Binding?
FCP has incorporated ODM’s Super Line to their list of professional bookbinding equipment to assist with your hardcover children’s books.
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  • Side-sewn, Reinforced Hardcover Library Binding
  • Standard or All-In-One End Sheets available
  • Minimum Page Count: 16 pages - Maximum Page Count: 72 pages
  • Cover Laminate Options: Linen, Gloss, & Matte

Perfect Binding

A Perfect Bound book has the pages glued inside the cover resulting in a nice, modern spine with squared edges. Perfect binding is a great option for thicker soft-cover books with a large page-count.

A few things that make our perfect binding capabilities is that we have the ability to bind books with very small small spines. 
  • 16 page book with 100# gloss text
  • 24 page book with 80# gloss text 

Saddle-Stitch

At FCP, we also offer Saddle-Stitching. A saddle-stitch is an affordable binding option that you commonly find in thinner books, magazines and catalogs. Saddle-stitching is a great choice for projects with smaller page counts. Ideally for projects from 8 to 128 page.

The saddle-stitch is more than budget friendly.  The process is shorter than that of perfect binding, which in-turn contributes to faster production times for those projects that are needed as soon as possible.
  • Up to 128 page book with under 65# text
  • Up to 112 page book with over 70# text 

Printing Technology

The press equipment at Forum Printing's facilities give us the flexibility to produce eye-catching finishes that will help fit all of our customer's budgets

Sheetfed

Our sheetfed presses provide us the opportunity to print high-quality pieces using up to six colors. They also have the ability to add a UV, Aqueous, Soft Touch, and other coatings to give your piece the look and feel you and your readers expect.

Web

FCP's Heatset Web Press is great for running larger quantity projects at an affordable rate. The press runs rolls of paper instead of sheets, and it has the ability to cut and fold of the back end.  All of which reduce labor costs and saves you money.

Digital

A digital press is like a color printer on steroids and is great for lower quantity projects This means that we can remove the plating and setup processes needed on our larger presses.

Book Distribution

FCP's Shipping Options

FCP has the capabilities to ship or mail your books to the end customer. Whether this is simply boxing and direct shipping to a school or library, or polybagging and mailing, we have an option that will work best for your freight needs.
  • What sets us apart from other printers is the capability to collate multiple books together before placing them in a polybag for mail.
  • We have also worked on very complicated shipments where we break a list down by the school and grade levels so each school in the list receives the appropriate book for their learning needs.

Quality Control

At FCP, we take quality control very seriously.  Our talented crews on the presses, cutters, bindery, and shipping all pride themselves on the products they piece together.