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Magazine & Catalog Printing in Sun Valley, CA

Most catalog printing is quoted at a thousand copies because the shop quoting it is a broker sending the job somewhere else. Angels Print stitches booklets on its own equipment in Sun Valley, so twenty-five copies of a magazine, a seasonal catalog, a lookbook or an event program is an ordinary job rather than an exception. Interiors run on 100# gloss, matte or uncoated text, covers on heavier stock with optional lamination, and page counts go in multiples of four. The price ladder below is the live one — it is computed from the same engine that charges the card at checkout.

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Magazine & Catalog Printing by Angels Print in Sun Valley, CA

25 · Minimum copies

Spec sheet

Binding: Saddle stitch — two wire staples on the spine, pages in multiples of four
Sizes: 8.5 x 11, 5.5 x 8.5 and 6 x 9 standard; other trims on request
Stocks: 100# gloss, matte or uncoated text inside; 80–100# cover or 14PT card outside
Finishes: Matte or gloss lamination on the cover, spot UV, full-bleed printing throughout
Quantities: From 25 copies; the per-copy price roughly halves by 500
Turnaround: 3-5 business days standard; longer for very high page counts
File formats: One print-ready PDF, single pages in reading order, 300 dpi, CMYK, 1/8" bleed

What you get with Magazine & Catalog Printing

Short runs from 25 copies, because the stitching happens here and not at a broker's partner plant
Full-bleed images across the gutter, with imposition handled in-house so spreads line up after folding
Heavier laminated covers on a lighter text interior — the standard magazine build, not an upcharge surprise
Reprints from the same file at the same price ladder, so a quarterly catalog does not need re-setup each issue
Matched collateral: the same artwork onto rack cards, postcards or a pocket folder in the same run

What magazine & catalog printing costs

Catalogue prices, live from the product configurator
Product	Starts at	Per piece
Saddle Stitch Booklets	$68.85	25 · $2.75 ea

Live catalogue prices — the same number the configurator shows when you open the product, and the same one the checkout charges. Every row opens a configurator where stock, size, finish and quantity move the price.

Price by quantity — Saddle Stitch Booklets

Saddle Stitch Booklets price at each quantity tier
Quantity	Total	Per piece
25	$68.85	$2.75
100	$195.35	$1.95
250	$355.35	$1.42
500	$536.35	$1.07
1,000	$929.35	$0.93
2,500	$1,964.85	$0.79

Computed at build time by the same pricing engine that charges the card at checkout, on the product's default options. Change the stock or finish and the number moves — the configurator shows it live.

See it working

Ferluno Metalworks — 58-page product catalogueVolume I of a custom metalwork shop's product range: doors, gates, railings, lighting. Saddle-stitched in-house, with dark low-key photography across most of the spread area — the hardest thing to hold on press without banding.

How your magazine & catalog printing job runs

1
Confirm the page count
Round to a multiple of four. We will tell you what the nearest sensible count is and what it costs.
2
Send single pages
One PDF, pages in reading order, 1/8" bleed. We impose it for the press and send a paginated proof.
3
Print, fold & stitch
Interior and cover print, fold, collate and stitch in-house, then trim to final size.
4
Pickup or ship
Boxed and shipped anywhere in the U.S. with free ground over $100 for standard-size orders, or collected in Sun Valley.

Popular uses

Product catalogsSeasonal lookbooksEvent programsMembership magazinesReal estate portfoliosRestaurant menus & wine lists

Jobs we have shipped are collected in our work, and the buyer guides in the blog go deeper on stocks, sizes and what is worth paying for.

Magazine & Catalog Printing, shipped anywhere in the U.S.

Every order is produced in our own shop at 8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley, CA — and ships from there to any state. Upload your artwork online or request a custom quote — most jobs ship in 3–5 days, with 24-hour rush available. Standard-size U.S. orders over $100 ship free; oversized items require pickup or a separate shipping quote.

Order magazine & catalog printing essentials online

Saddle Stitch Bookletsfrom $68.85

Presentation Folderfrom $204

Rack Cardsfrom $51.71

Postcardsfrom $35.61

Questions about Magazine & Catalog Printing

Do you really print twenty-five copies?

Yes. The stitcher is in our shop, so a run of twenty-five costs us setup and paper rather than a broker's minimum. It is the normal way to test a catalog before committing to a thousand.

Can you do perfect binding instead of staples?

Saddle stitch is what we run in-house, and it is the right binding up to roughly seventy-two pages. Above that the spine stops lying flat and perfect binding is the correct answer — send the page count through the quote form and we will price it out rather than staple something that should not be stapled.

How do I get an image to run across the middle of a spread?

Send single pages with full 1/8" bleed on all four edges and place the image so it bleeds off the inside edge of both pages. We handle the imposition. Do not pre-build spreads — that is how the gutter ends up misaligned.

Where does an advertisement in someone else's magazine get placed?

That is a different job and we do it too — see media placement, which books the space in a publication you do not own and prepares the artwork to that publisher's trim and deadline.