How to choose the best material for your magazine book?

Magazine book sales have always been very high, you can find a variety of magazines in all bookstores, libraries, convenience stores, coffee shops and even street stalls. The contents of the magazine book are also very diverse, fashion, commercial, sports, entertainment, and so on. The magazine book is an inclusive book type, so that is why it is always popular.

As a printing factory with rich experience, we have printed many kinds of magazine books. Then we find that many customers have a lot of questions about how to choose the material of the magazine book, so if you want to print your own magazine book, this article can help you choose the best material.

Firstly, the content and usage of magazine book also have a great impact on materials chosen. For example, if the content of your magazine book is mostly picture, especially that kind of landscape photography magazine book, we generally recommend coated paper. Coated paper is generally divided into two types: glossy coated paper and matte coated paper. Glossy coated paper will make the magazine book brighter, and matte coated paper will make the magazine book more matte. It depends on what kind of effect you want the magazine book to show. For the price, glossy coated paper will be cheaper.

If your magazine book needs to be written on it, then we suggest to use uncoated paper, people also called it woodfree paper or offset paper. It is the paper that is usually used in notebooks, which is characterized by good ink absorption.

Secondly, for the cover of the magazine book, if you want the hardcover, then we suggest to use the coated paper mounted the greyboard. If you want the softcover, we suggest to use the coated paper only without greyboard. The cover need to be with film lamination generally, there has two kinds of film lamination: glossy lamination and matte lamination, so it is depends on your choice.

For the above paper material of the magazine book, these papers have many different weights, which usually have related with the size and number of pages of the magazine book, so if you need to print your own magazine book, please feel free to contact us and we will provide you with the most professional advice, to help you choose the best material!