Order of Service Booklets
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Order of Service booklets for funerals and weddings, saddle-stitched on premium 300gsm card, produced same-day at our 24/7 London facility. Same-day and overnight courier delivery is available across London, with frequent deliveries to the City, West End, Canary Wharf and Central London. A good share of order of service work is for the churches around Victoria — printed, folded and delivered to the vestry the same morning.
Every job is quoted on its specification. Send us yours and we will come back with a firm figure.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Sizes | A5 and A4 |
| Extent | 4 to 60 pages, in multiples of four |
| Binding | Saddle-stitched |
| Cover | Premium card, choice of paper weights |
| Turnaround | Same day in London; next-day delivery elsewhere in the UK |
Artwork specifications
Bleed, safe margins, colour, resolution, file format
Family photographs deserve care: make sure each image is print-ready.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 3 mm on every edge | With crop marks offset by 3 mm. Anything running off the page has to extend past the trim, or a white hairline appears along the cut edge. |
| Safe margin | Text 5 mm clear of the trim | Trimming moves by a fraction of a millimetre across a run. Type sitting on the trim line will look uneven from copy to copy. |
| Colour mode | CMYK, not RGB | Bright RGB blues and greens sit outside the CMYK gamut and print duller than they look on screen. Send Pantone references for brand colours. |
| Resolution at final size | 300 dpi at the finished size | Measured on the printed piece, not in the file. A 72 dpi web image scaled up stays 72 dpi. |
| File format | PDF preferred — but send what you have | We accept virtually any artwork format and check every file in-house before production. If anything needs adjusting we will tell you immediately, before we print. |
| Fonts | Outlined, or fully embedded | Outlined is safer on urgent work: there is no substitution risk at 3am when nobody is at a desk to answer. |
| Images | Embedded in the PDF | PDF/X-4 embeds everything by default. Linked images that did not travel with the file are a common cause of a job stalling. |
| Transparency | Supported — no need to flatten | PDF/X-4 carries live transparency. Flattening by hand often causes the white boxes and colour shifts it was meant to avoid. |
| Page order | Single pages in reading order, not spreads | Pages 1, 2, 3, 4. We impose the booklet ourselves; a pre-imposed spread has to be taken apart first. |
| Page count | A multiple of four | The sheets fold in half, so the extent always steps in fours. |
Before you upload
- Export as PDF/X-4
- Convert fonts to outlines
- Extend backgrounds into the bleed
- Keep important content inside the safe margin
- Supply images at 300 dpi at the finished size
- Check the page size matches the finished trim size
Send the file even where there is doubt about it. We check bleed, resolution, embedded fonts and page size before anything goes on press, and where a fix is small it is usually just done. A two-minute reply at 9pm is faster than a re-export at 7am.
What turns a same-day job into a next-day one is almost never the printing. It is a question that has to go back to you and sit unanswered — artwork built at the wrong finished size, a logo supplied at screen resolution, or type running off the trim with no bleed behind it. Getting the six points above right removes nearly every one of those.
Printed to a service time, not to a lead time
We provide compassionate, reliable, and rapid printing for Funeral and Memorial Orders of Service, and for Wedding Booklets. We understand that these documents often need to be produced under strict time constraints. Our "Wait and Print" or Same Day Courier service ensures you have your booklets in hand well before the ceremony.
We print on premium heavyweight card (typically 300gsm or 350gsm) for the cover, with professional creasing and saddle-stitch stapling to ensure a neat, flat finish. Whether you need 50 copies for an intimate family service or 500 for a large wedding in Central London, our production team prioritizes these sensitive jobs. Design assistance is available if you need help with layout.
The same 300 and 350gsm cover stock runs for certificate printing, and the two jobs are often set together: an award evening orders programmes and certificates off one file, printed in one pass so the type and the paper match across both.
Q&A
We offer a priority "Wait and Print" or same-day courier service. We can design and print within hours to meet tight funeral deadlines.
Yes. All our heavy card booklets are professionally creased and folded to ensure they lie flat and look pristine.
Yes. We can courier the finished booklets directly to funeral directors anywhere in London.
Absolutely. We use high-resolution digital presses to ensure family photographs and memories are reproduced with perfect clarity and colour.
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Send us the job
Tell us the size, the quantity and when you need it. We come back with a firm price, and we check the artwork before anything goes on press.
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