Custom Notebooks & Journals Promotional Products.

Simply, hardcover for a book someone keeps on a desk and opens daily, softcover for a hand-out going out in volume. A hardcover holds a rigid board under the cover, so it keeps its shape through a year of being opened, closed and carried. A softcover drops that board, which brings the unit cost and the shipping weight down with it.

Where the books are going out in volume on a fixed budget per head, the softcover is genuinely the right book, and when it is we'll say so. The saving goes into quantity instead of a case nobody needed.

A cheaper book with your logo on it still feels like a gift when the format matches how the book gets used. Personalized notebooks are used again and again rather than seen once, so your logo travels with the book to meetings and desks. New-hire kits, conference booths, closing and recognition gifts, staff thank-yous, they all take a book.

You were likely handed a headcount and a date rather than a full specification, and that is fine, a real member of our team can help you. Where the books go out with other client-facing pieces, portfolios and padfolios cover the folder side of the same set.

You pick the cover material first, and that decides which mark will hold on it. A deboss is your logo pressed into the cover with no ink, so there is nothing sitting on top to scratch or rub off over the life of the book. It needs a cover with a bit of give. On a woven cover that pressed mark competes with the weave and can disappear at arm's length, so a foil stamp puts the contrast back and your logo stays visible across a desk.

A multi-color or gradient logo just moves you to a different cover. A printed board wrap carries full-color artwork across the whole cover, because the wrap is printed before it goes onto the book.

A pressed die and a foil each give you one color. Screen print costs a setup for every color in the design, so a busy multi-color logo comes out cheaper on a printed wrap. Those setup charges are one-time, paid once before anything is produced.

Send us whatever logo file you already have. Our team checks it and fixes it before your proof, so custom journals with a detailed mark are not held up waiting for print-ready artwork. Nothing is printed, pressed or shipped until you've approved that digital proof, so the material and the mark can still change after you've seen them.

The rest of our Stationery range sits alongside these books when you need more than the notebook. Our wider promotional products catalog covers the rest of the kit.

Pick lined for meeting notes, dot grid where people both write and sketch, and plain for presentation and sketching.

Lighter paper shows ink through to the reverse page, so the back of every written sheet is wasted. Go heavier where gel or fountain pens are in play, or where the book gets written on both sides in meetings.

The smaller format fits a bag and a jacket pocket, and the larger one is for a book that stays on a desk and gets written in flat. Corporate journals in new-hire kits get opened daily, so durability and page count matter most there. Conference hand-outs go out in volume, so unit cost and how clearly the logo shows on the cover decide those.

If what you actually need is a wire-bound or spiral-bound book, that format sits on our spiral notebooks page rather than here. Where the books go out as part of a kit, pencils and markers cover what goes in the pocket alongside them.

If the brief still needs some thought, or the artwork could use another pair of eyes, send what you have and we'll arrange the rest. You'll get a format and cover recommendation back with a digital proof before anything is produced, and you choose the specification and approve or amend that proof. Speak to our team or browse the gallery above, we're ready and waiting for your inquiry. Every order is satisfaction guaranteed.