Square Booklets

These booklets are printed in-house on 7 stocks and built to your exact page count, so a quick 8-page piece and a longer catalog come off the same line. Want to see how square booklets sit next to the rest of the range? Browse every option on booklets and catalogs printing, or stay here and build yours from the choices below.

The price rewards a bigger run. A set of 25 starts at $240.55, about $9.62 a booklet, and the per-booklet cost keeps sliding as the count climbs, so a print run for a launch or an event costs far less per booklet than a short test batch. Tap any tier below to see the live total and exactly how much each step up saves before you commit.

What Are Square Booklets

A square booklet is a saddle-stitched, multi-page booklet printed full color in 3 finished sizes, from a 5.5" x 8.5" half-page up to a true 11" x 11" square. People reach for them when a single sheet cannot carry the message: lookbooks, event programs, menus, product catalogs, photo books, and instruction guides. Because the pages are folded and stapled through the spine, the booklet lies flat enough to read and stays affordable even at higher page counts. If you want the classic rectangular version instead, the Standard Booklets cover that, and the square sits right beside it as the version that stands out on a table.

What Size and Page Count Should a Square Booklet Be

The right size comes down to how much you need to show. The 11" x 11" square is the headline format, big enough for full-bleed photography and roomy spreads. The 8.5" x 11" letter size and the 5.5" x 8.5" half-page cover the more traditional shapes. Then set the length: page counts start at 8 pages, a cover wrapped around 4 inside pages, and climb through 14 options in 4-page steps, so you add sheets as your content grows. You also choose whether the staples run along the long edge or the short edge. All 3 sizes, the page counts, the stocks and the ink options are grouped below exactly the way the live configurator presents them, so you know what you can change before you change it. For a photo-first booklet, the Photography Booklets are tuned for image reproduction, and the Saddle Stitch Booklet is the same binding in the standard shapes.

Already have your artwork? Download a press-ready blank instead. The blank booklet template is built at the real trim size with the bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your design never crowds the cut or the spine. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.

How Much Do Square Booklets Cost

Square booklets start at $240.55 for 25, and the per-booklet price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 5,000, so a cheaper booklet really comes down to how big a run you order and how many pages it carries. A run of 300 works out to about $1.65 a booklet, and 5,000 fall to roughly $0.24 each. So how many do you actually need? Drag the slider below to set your count and watch both the total and the true per-booklet cost update live, and find the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

What Paper and Ink Can You Choose

A booklet reads differently depending on the paper. For the inside pages, 100# Gloss Text makes photos pop, 100# Silk/Matte Text keeps long copy easy on the eye, and 70# Uncoated Text gives a natural, writeable surface. For the cover, wrap the booklet in a sturdier 14pt or 80# gloss, a 100# silk-matte, or a 14pt Uncoated Cover made with 30% post-consumer recycled content when sustainability matters. Ink runs either 4/4, full color on both sides, or 1/1, black on both sides, whichever fits the piece and the budget. Seven stocks in all, printed in-house to spec.

How Are Square Booklets Bound and Proofed

Every square booklet is saddle-stitched, which means the folded pages nest inside each other and staples hold the spine. It is the standard binding for booklets in this page range: light, flat enough to read, and easy on the budget. You decide which edge gets the staples, long or short, depending on how you want the booklet to open. Before the full run you have three proofing paths. Go straight to production when your file is ready, request a free online proof to check the layout on screen, or order a next day hardcopy proof to hold a physical sample first, which is worth it for a booklet you are printing in volume. Every order is backed by 4OVER4's Gold Standard guarantees, and the Price Match beats a real competitor quote by an extra 10% - the 110% price-match guarantee.

How Fast Can You Get Square Booklets

Square booklets print on a standard 7 business day turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can step that up through 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 business days, all the way down to next day. You only pay for the speed you actually pick. Across 4OVER4, 99.8% of orders arrive on time and 82% ship early, so a booklet you need for an event or a launch is a schedule you can plan around. You choose the speed in the configurator, and each faster tier shows its price before you commit.

See the Rest of Our Booklets

Square booklets are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If a rectangular shape, a photo-tuned booklet, or the classic saddle-stitched format would serve you better, the Standard Booklets, Photography Booklets, and Saddle Stitch Booklet are one tap away. Each shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page.

Print Your Square Booklets Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Whatever size, page count, stock, or binding you pick, these square booklets are built to feel substantial in a hand and earn a spot on a table. Set your specs, choose your turnaround, and print your square booklets today.

Square Booklet Price Tiers

Three things move the price of a square booklet: the run, the page count, and the stock on the cover and the inside pages. The setup for a saddle stitched book is spread across the run, which is why the per-booklet figure falls so far between a short run and a long one. These are the tiers on the default size and stock.

Adding pages moves every tier up, since each 4-page step is another folded sheet through the stitcher, and the live total updates as you change the count.

Square Booklet or Standard Booklet

The square is the shape for pictures. An 11" x 11" spread gives a photograph, a product shot or a piece of artwork the same width on either page, which is why lookbooks, portfolios, photo books and menus lean square. A standard booklet, the 8.5" x 11" letter and the 5.5" x 8.5" half page, is the shape for reading, because a column of text sits more comfortably on a tall page and the format fits a standard envelope, a rack and a binder. Both are on this product, on the same 7 stocks, stitched the same way, with the same page counts from 8 pages up in 14 steps. Pick the square when the pictures carry the piece and the letter size when the words do. For a booklet built around photography on any of the three sizes, the Photography Booklets are tuned for that.