Magazine & Catalog Printing in Glendale, CA
Glendale prints for two audiences at once: the shareholder in a Brand Boulevard tower and the shopper walking the Americana. Both notice paper. A wealth management firm's annual report and a boutique's seasonal lookbook fail in exactly the same ways, through thin stock, muddy photographs and a crooked trim, and both come out right when one shop controls the whole job. Angels Print runs that bindery in Sun Valley, about fifteen minutes west of Brand via the 134. Everything is produced in house in quantities from 25 to 10,000, with free local pickup and free shipping on orders above $100. Catalog printing Glendale companies order is rarely just a catalog; it is a sales tool with a date attached to it.
Annual report printing is precision work. Financial tables have to hold hairline rules without dropping them out, a brand blue has to stay identical across sixty pages, and the book must open flat enough for someone to read a chart across the gutter. We perfect bind at roughly 60 pages and up on 80# to 100# silk text with a 12pt laminated cover, and saddle stitch shorter reports on 100# gloss. Charts and photography get a hard-copy proof on the actual stock before the run, so nobody discovers a color shift in a boardroom. If the report doubles as an investor leave-behind, we add a pocket folder or tabbed dividers without sending the job anywhere else.
Retail on Brand and inside the Americana runs on a different clock. Lookbook printing for a seasonal drop wants heavy matte or silk text, generous white space and a cover that photographs well on social. Saddle stitch catalogs of 16 to 32 pages hit the sweet spot: cheap enough to hand out at the door, nice enough that people keep them. Jewelry, furniture and apparel all live or die on color, so we proof, adjust, and proof again rather than guessing at a screen match. Runs of 500 to 2,000 are common for a Glendale storefront, and we can number the copies, shrink-wrap them in fifties, or split a delivery between the store and a warehouse.
Healthcare groups, real estate offices and professional firms fill the middle ground. Patient education booklets, property portfolios, capability statements, program books for a chamber gala or a hospital foundation dinner are all short-run, all deadline driven, and all better stitched or perfect bound than stapled in a corner by an office machine. Magazine printing Glendale organizations request often begins as a quarterly PDF nobody opens and becomes a printed piece that sits in a waiting room for months. We help you choose a page count that divides by four, a trim size that mails at letter rate, and a stock that will not curl in an air-conditioned lobby. Quantities of 100 to 1,000 are typical, and reprints keep the same file so nothing has to be rebuilt.
When a board meeting moves up, rush book printing keeps the date. Files approved in the morning can be stitched and delivered the next business day on most jobs; perfect binding normally wants one extra night for the glue to set, and we say so rather than promise and miss. Send press-ready PDFs with 0.125 inch bleed and embedded fonts, or hand us the native files and let prepress build them properly. Book printing Los Angeles firms rely on happens entirely in our Sun Valley shop, so revisions never bounce between vendors. Call (818) 806-9006 with the quantity, page count and finish you have in mind, or just the deadline if that is the fixed part.
- 3-5 business days standard
- Send your own artwork
- Serving Glendale
- 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
Questions about Magazine & Catalog Printing in Glendale
Can you print an annual report before a board meeting?
Usually yes. Stitched reports approved in the morning can be delivered the next business day, while perfect-bound books need one extra night to cure. We are about fifteen minutes from Brand Blvd via the 134.
What stock do you recommend for a retail lookbook?
Heavy matte or silk text with a laminated cover photographs well and survives a shopping bag. For Americana and Brand Blvd stores we typically run 500 to 2,000 copies and can shrink-wrap them in fifties.
Do you make tabbed dividers and pocket folders for investor packets?
Yes, all in house. Tabs, folders and drilled binder pages are finished in our own bindery, so an investor leave-behind does not have to be assembled from three different vendors.
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Updated August 2026
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