North American Book Printing Platform
Lakeside Book Company offers a wide range of technologies to produce books for all markets, in any format and quantity, with endless embellishment and binding options.
1-Color and 2-Color
From small digital projects to large offset print runs with millions of units, our North American printing platform gives you access to the capacity, capability, and turnaround time you need all year long.
Digital and Inkjet Book Printing
We’re pushing digital printing to the next level by investing in state-of-the-art technology to provide faster turnaround times for title replenishment and reprints on small print runs, from print-on-demand book of one up to 10,000 units with our HP T500 investment in Harrisonburg, VA.
Small and Large Web and Sheetfed Offset
Offset printing is the foundation of Lakeside Book Company’s expertise. We produce large print runs with the highest quality at the best possible cost for thousands of customers worldwide
4-Color
Discover our 4-color capabilities to transform your content, ideas, pictures, and stories into a printed masterpiece.Â
Finishes and Embellishments
Unleash your imagination and bring your product to life with unique finishes, embellishments, and special edition features to help you sell more books at higher price points.
List of finishes/options:
- Stained, Gilded, and Printed Edges
- Embossing and Debossing
- Lamination and Coating
- Foil and Blind Stamping
- Custom Ink Options
- Slip Cases, Boxed Sets, and Kits
Receive your copy of our award-winning sample special edition book, Imagine, complete with die cut slipcover and descriptions of the features and finishes.
Book Binding
Boundless opportunities exist to make your products last for years to come.
Hardcover Bindings
Flex Bound
A very thin board or cardstock is used for the case, resulting in a more flexible book and cover. This is often combined with smyth sewn for lay flat functionality.
Adhesive
Our standard hardcover product offering. The book block spine is ground down and glued to the case.
Sewn
The signatures of the book are folded and stitched through the fold. They are then sewn and glued together at the spine to form a text block that can open completely flat. This is one of the most durable binding methods available.
Softcover Bindings
Perfect Bound
Perfect binding is commonly used for a variety of applications including trade books, graphic novels, travel guides, music books, reference materials, catalogues, manuals, financial publications and scientific journals.
Layflat
Lay flat is a specialized bookbinding method where the cover is glued to the front and back pages of the book block, allowing the spine to float independently of the book cover. This enables the book to lay flat when open without the reader having to force the pages down.
Saddle Stitched
Staples are inserted into the spine to bind the leaves together.
Mechanical Bound
Mechanical binding allows the book to open completely flat. We offer three options: twin loop wire-O, plastic coil and concealed wire-O.
Paper Options
Tap into our buying power to access the responsibly sourced paper that you need. If we don’t stock it, we can order it.
We can source any type of paper you need.
Recycled and FSC®