Product Catalogs · Print + Mail In-House · Est. 1989

Product Catalog Printing

Catalogs built to sell: wholesale line sheets, B2B product catalogs, retail lookbooks, and parts references, printed and mailed under one roof in Lakeland, Florida. Saddle stitch, perfect bind, or coil, from 25 copies to 50,000 and beyond. We ship to all 50 states.

Saddle Stitch, Perfect Bind & Coil
Print + Mail, One Workflow
HIPAA & SOC 2
Veteran-Owned
100+ 5-Star Reviews

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A catalog is the sales rep that stays after the meeting.

A brochure introduces. A catalog closes: it carries the whole line, sits on the buyer’s desk, and answers the next three questions before anyone picks up the phone. We treat catalog printing as sales infrastructure, and we have been building it for businesses since 1989.

That framing changes the decisions. Page count gets planned around the product list instead of a template. The cover stock gets chosen for the hands that will hold it. And because the same operation that prints the catalog can also address it and enter it with USPS, the mailing program gets designed at the same table as the print run instead of bolted on afterward.

Built as a sales tool, not a document

Catalogs are reference pieces: people keep them, mark them up, and order from them. We build for that job, with page counts, stocks, and binding chosen around how your buyers actually use the piece. A lookbook that gets browsed once is a different build than a price book that lives on a counter for a year, and the spec should say so.

Printed, bound, and mailed in one workflow

Press, bindery, and mailing run as one job under one team. Saddle stitch, perfect bind, and coil all happen in-house, and the finished catalogs can move straight into addressing and USPS entry without ever leaving the workflow. One schedule, one point of contact, and no gap between the print date and the mail date for anything to slip into.

Credentials your buyers recognize

MPA is a Veteran-Owned Small Business, SOC 2 Type 2 certified, and HIPAA-compliant, with 100+ 5-star Google reviews. Those controls cover every catalog we run, from a 25-copy line sheet to a national program, and the documentation is there when your procurement team asks for it.

Catalog and bound-publication work is one of the largest categories in our 35-year history, across more than 700 business customers in all 50 states. That history matters in the small decisions: knowing which cover survives a trade-show season, which interior weight keeps a mailing on the right side of a postal boundary, and which bind a parts counter will not destroy in a month. You are not the test run.

Binding, chosen by page count.

The bind is a thickness decision before it is a style decision. Standard catalog trims run from 5.5" x 8.5" digest up through 8.5" x 11" letter, with custom sizes quoted on request, and the page count tells you which of three binds the catalog wants. Get the bind right and the catalog opens flat in a buyer’s hands, survives the handling it was built for, and mails at the weight you planned. Get it wrong and the piece fights its reader.

All three binds run in-house, which means the recommendation is not steering you toward the only thing the shop can do. It is matching the bind to the catalog, and you can have more than one bound into the quote to compare.

Saddle stitch

the standard for slimmer catalogs

Folded sheets stapled at the spine. It lays flat when opened, keeps the piece light for mailing, and is the most cost-effective bind for short runs. Most line sheets, seasonal collections, and slim product catalogs live here, and because the page count climbs in multiples of 4, planning the product list against the signature count keeps the layout honest.

Pages: 8 to 48, in multiples of 4
Cover: 80lb to 100lb cover
Interior: 60lb to 100lb text

Best for: line sheets, lookbooks, seasonal collections.

Perfect bind

the square spine for thick catalogs

A glued square spine, like a paperback book, with room to print the title on the spine itself. It is the bind for master catalogs that need shelf presence: when your catalog stands in a row on a distributor’s shelf, the spine is the part doing the selling. The sweet spot sits between 96 and 400 pages.

Pages: 48 to 800
Cover: 10pt to 14pt cover
Interior: 70lb to 80lb text

Best for: master catalogs, annual references, program books.

Coil bind

the workhorse that lays flat

Plastic coil or Wire-O threaded through punched holes. Pages rotate all the way around and the book stays open on a bench, a counter, or a parts desk without a hand holding it down. For a catalog that gets used while both hands are busy, that one behavior is the whole argument.

Pages: 20 to 600
Cover: 100lb cover or 10pt to 14pt
Interior: 60lb to 100lb text

Best for: parts catalogs, price books, service references.

Trim sizes

5.5" x 8.5" digest for line sheets and mail-friendly editions, 8.5" x 11" letter for full product pages, and the sizes between. Custom trims are quoted on request when the line calls for something else, and we will tell you what the odd size costs you at the mailbox before you commit to it.

Run lengths

From 25 copies for a rep’s territory to 50,000 and beyond for a national drop. Minimums are 25 for saddle stitch, 50 for coil, and 100 for perfect bind, so short pilot editions are a real option.

Turnaround

Standard runs move in 3 to 5 business days from approved proof. Heavier page counts and binding passes add time, rush schedules exist for firm dates, and your quote confirms the calendar in writing.

One more thing the bind decides: the mailing math. A saddle-stitched catalog stays light and slim, which matters when thousands of copies enter the mail stream, while a perfect-bound spine adds weight and thickness that the postage line will notice. If your catalog mails, say so when you ask for the binding recommendation, because the right answer on the bindery floor and the right answer at the mailbox are occasionally two different binds, and you want that argument settled on paper before the run, not after it.

Page count sitting on a boundary? Send the page list with your quote request and we will recommend the bind that fits how the catalog gets used, not just how thick it is.

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Paper & Cover

The cover sells the catalog. The pages sell the product.

Real catalogs run two paper specs: a heavier cover that survives handling and a lighter interior tuned to your photography and your postage. Pick each one deliberately, because the buyer feels the cover before reading a word and lives with the interior for every page after it.

Cover stocks

80lb and 100lb silk covers are the most-requested choice: a soft, magazine-grade sheen that photographs well in a buyer’s hands. 100lb gloss cover pushes color harder for photo-forward lines, 80lb uncoated cover reads editorial and takes a pen, and 130lb silk is the maximum-weight option for flagship editions. If the catalog will live in a rack or ride in a rep’s bag for a season, step the cover up a weight; it is the cheapest durability you can buy.

The cover is the first spec a buyer feels, and the part still being judged a year later from the shelf. Weight it like it matters, because it does.

Interior stocks

80lb silk text is the magazine standard for product pages. 100lb gloss text makes photography vivid for lookbooks, 100lb silk adds heavyweight, anti-glare reading for premium references, and 60lb to 80lb uncoated text suits dense spec tables and price-list pages where a buyer writes in the margins. Mixed interiors are common: gloss for the product spreads, uncoated for the order section at the back.

Interior weight also moves mailing weight, page for page, across the whole run. We flag that trade in the quote so you choose it on purpose.

Lamination

Gloss, matte, or soft-touch lamination on the cover adds durability for catalogs that get handled daily, racked, or mailed. Soft-touch gives the cover a velvet feel buyers notice, and gloss laminate shrugs off fingerprints in a busy showroom.

Cover treatments

Foil stamping, spot UV, and embossing are available on request when the cover itself needs to carry the brand. Best reserved for flagship and anniversary editions, where one treatment on the logo does more than four spread across the page.

Specialty stocks

Heavier weights plus textured, recycled, and synthetic sheets are available on request. Tell us the feel you are after and we will match a stock to it, with samples in your hands before the run commits.

The coated versus uncoated call is simpler than it sounds. Coated sheets carry sharper images and stronger color, which is why gloss and silk dominate product pages and lookbooks. Uncoated sheets read warmer, glare less under shop lights, and take a pen, which is why order forms, price lists, and nonprofit publications lean that way. Most catalogs end up pairing the two: a coated cover and product pages with uncoated forms where the buyer writes.

Want to feel the difference before you commit? Ask for paper samples with your quote request and compare the stocks in hand.

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What drives the price of a catalog.

No two catalogs price alike, so we quote each one to its exact spec instead of publishing a rate card that fits nobody. A slim digest line sheet and a thick perfect-bound master catalog are different machines with different math. Quotes are itemized line by line and usually come back within one business day, and the itemization means you can see which lever to pull if the first number needs to come down.

Pages and size

the biggest lever on the sheet

Page count sets paper, press time, and finished weight, and trim size compounds all three. A digest catalog and a letter catalog with the same page count are different jobs, which is why we ask for the page list before anything else.

Price moves with: page count and trim size.

Binding and cover

how the catalog is put together

Saddle stitch, perfect bind, and coil each carry their own assembly path, and the cover stock, lamination, and any treatments ride on top of that choice. A flagship cover treatment is a choice, not a default, and the quote shows it as its own line.

Price moves with: binding type, cover stock, and finishes.

Quantity and reach

how many, and how far they travel

Per-piece cost falls as the run climbs, and if the catalogs mail, the piece’s finished weight decides what postage looks like. We quote print and postage together so the whole picture is on one page.

Price moves with: run length, and postage when we mail it.

Printing for a sales team or a dealer network? Catalog programs price down with quantity, and recurring editions can be planned as a program so each drop lands on schedule. Tell us the territory count and we will quote the program, not just the print run.

If the catalog mails, ask for the postage scenarios in the same quote. Because the piece’s finished weight and trim decide how it enters the mail stream, a small spec change can move the postage line, and seeing print and postage side by side is the only way to optimize the whole number instead of half of it.

Get an exact catalog quote.

Itemized by pages, stock, binding, quantity, and mailing. Usually back within one business day.

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How it works.

Four steps from first email to catalogs in hand, or in mailboxes.

1

Quote

Tell us page count, trim size, binding, quantity, and whether the catalogs mail. Itemized quotes usually come back within one business day, and we will quote two or three scenarios if the spec is still moving.
2

Artwork & proof

Send a print-ready PDF, or InDesign or Illustrator files. Every job gets a file check, then a digital proof, usually the same business day. Catalogs can add a stitched dummy on the production stock, and nothing runs until you approve.
3

Press & bind

Printed in full color and bound in-house: saddle stitch, perfect bind, or coil. Standard runs move in 3 to 5 business days from approved proof, with rush schedules available when the date is firm.
4

Ship, deliver, or mail

Pick up at our Lakeland facility, have the finished catalogs shipped anywhere in the US, or move them straight into the mailing workflow for addressing and USPS entry. Split orders, partial ship and partial mail, are common for catalog programs.

FILE SPECS · print-ready PDF · 0.125" bleed on all sides · 300 DPI images · CMYK color · fonts embedded · saddle-stitched page counts in multiples of 4

On a catalog proof, check the things a single-sheet proof never has to answer: page order, crossovers that span the gutter, and how the spreads land against each other. That is exactly what the stitched dummy on production stock is for, and it is the difference between approving a PDF and approving the actual object your buyers will hold.

Keep text and logos at least 0.25" inside the trim edge, and build the document at the final trim size with bleed extending past it. Not sure your file is ready? Send it anyway: every catalog gets a preflight before anything prints, and we flag issues before they cost you a reprint. Need design help instead of a file check? Our in-house design team can build the catalog from scratch or clean up an existing layout; mention it with the quote and we will scope it alongside the print run.

Catalog Mailing

Printed and mailed in one workflow.

This is the closing argument for printing your catalog here. Most printers finish the job at the loading dock and hand your catalogs to a separate mail house. Ours keep moving: data work, addressing, and USPS entry happen in the same workflow as the press run, with one team accountable for the whole chain.

Catalog mailings run from 16 to 96 pages, from 5.5" x 8.5" digest up through 8.5" x 11" letter. Page count drives weight, and weight decides how the piece enters the mail, so when a catalog sits near a postal boundary we quote it both ways: you see exactly what a trim change or a paper change does to postage before you commit to either.

The list gets the same discipline as the press sheet. Before a single catalog is addressed, your mailing list runs through move updates, address standardization, and deduplication, because a bad address caught before the run is postage you never buy and a catalog that never lands in a dead mailbox.

Variable-data covers personalize the program: territory and rep versions mean every dealer, member, or region gets a catalog that reads like it was printed just for them. And when the catalog is a quarterly or seasonal edition, we plan the drops as a recurring program on a production calendar instead of a series of one-off jobs, so the spring edition is on press while the winter edition is still pulling orders.

The practical payoff is the in-home date. Every hand-off between vendors is a place where a pallet waits on a dock and a schedule quietly slips a few days. When the same team owns the press run, the addressing, and the USPS entry, the catalog moves from bindery to mail stream without waiting on anyone, and you get one accountable answer to the only question that matters: when does it land?

When you ask for a mailing quote, bring three things: the list count, the spec as you know it so far, and the week you want the catalog in homes. We work the schedule backward from the in-home date, and if the list needs work first, that gets scoped in the same conversation instead of surfacing as a surprise the week of the drop.

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What the mailing workflow covers

NCOA move updates against the USPS database, so movers still get the catalog
CASS address standardization on every record
Deduplication before a single stamp of postage is spent
Presort to the deepest available discount tier
Intelligent Mail barcoding on every piece for tracking
Direct USPS entry, with no consolidator stop in between

One team owns the catalog from data intake to the mail stream, so there is no hand-off where the schedule slips.

One product, many sales jobs.

Six catalogs we build, and the job each one is built to do. The spec follows the job: a line sheet is built to travel, a parts book is built to take a beating, and a lookbook is built to be wanted.

Wholesale line sheets

Slim saddle-stitched sheets that put the whole line in a buyer’s hand: items, specs, and ordering info in a piece a rep can leave behind after every call. Light enough to mail to the full account list when the season turns.

B2B product catalogs

Dense reference catalogs for distributors and manufacturers, where side-by-side product data works better on paper than it ever does in a browser tab. Built for the desk where purchase orders actually get written.

Retail lookbooks

Photo-forward seasonal collections on gloss or silk stock, built to be browsed slowly, dog-eared, and kept on the coffee table until the next edition arrives and starts the cycle again.

Parts & equipment catalogs

Coil-bound references that lay flat on a bench, survive the shop floor, and stay legible after a year of greasy thumbs and coffee rings. Heavy covers and laminate earn their keep here.

Course & program catalogs

Continuing-education guides and program books with the page room to let families browse classes together at the kitchen table, which is exactly where enrollment decisions get made.

Nonprofit annual reports →

Impact reports and donor publications with the polish the board expects, produced inside a HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 certified shop, and mailed to the donor file from the same workflow.

Notice what changes across the six: the bind, the paper, the trim, and whether the piece mails. What does not change is the underlying job, which is putting the full offer in front of a buyer in a form that outlasts the conversation. Start your quote request with the use case, not the spec, and the spec falls out of it: tell us who holds the catalog, where they hold it, and what you want them to do next, and we will translate that into pages, stock, and binding you can approve with confidence.

Catalog, booklet, or brochure?

Three bound-and-folded cousins, three different jobs, and the names get used interchangeably right up until the quote. Here is the fast way to land on the right page, so the spec conversation starts in the right place.

It sells products.

Items, collections, parts, price lists: if the piece exists so a buyer can choose and order, it is a catalog, and you are already on the right page. Binding, paper, and mailing all follow from that one job.

You need: this page. Scroll up or get a quote.

The format is the point.

Programs, magazines, manuals, yearbooks: bound pieces where the saddle-stitched format itself is the product, whatever the content inside happens to be. The booklet page covers that format story end to end.

You need: booklet printing →

It folds, it does not bind.

Tri-folds, bi-folds, and gate folds: a single sheet of folded panels for the message that fits in a pocket, a rack, or a #10 envelope. No spine, no staples, and a much lighter ride through the mail.

You need: brochure printing →

Still split between two of them? That usually means the piece is trying to do two jobs, and the honest fix is sometimes two pieces: a brochure that opens the door and a catalog that closes the order. Ask for both in one quote and compare the math side by side.

Catalog printing questions, answered.

Saddle stitch runs 8 to 48 pages in multiples of 4, perfect bind covers 48 to 800 pages, and coil bind handles 20 to 600. If your page count sits near a boundary, we will recommend the bind that fits how the catalog gets used, not just how thick it is.

Pick by thickness and use. Saddle stitch suits slimmer catalogs and line sheets, perfect bind gives thick master catalogs a printed spine and shelf presence, and coil bind is for parts and reference catalogs that have to lay flat in use. If the catalog mails, the bind also moves the piece's weight and thickness, so mention the mailing plan when you ask. Your quote can include more than one option so you can compare them side by side.

A print-ready PDF with 0.125 inch of bleed on all sides, 300 DPI images, CMYK color, and embedded fonts is the standard; InDesign and Illustrator files are accepted too. Saddle-stitched page counts should land in multiples of 4, and every file gets a preflight check before anything prints.

Yes. You get a digital proof, usually the same business day, and for catalogs we can build a stitched dummy on the production stock so you can confirm the page order, the lay, and the gutter behavior before the full run. Nothing prints until you approve.

Yes, and that is the reason to print it here: the same workflow that binds the catalog also runs NCOA move updates, CASS standardization, deduplication, presort, Intelligent Mail barcoding, and direct USPS entry. Catalog mailings run from 16 to 96 pages, and we quote print and postage together so you see the whole picture.

Minimums are 25 copies for saddle stitch, 50 for coil bind, and 100 for perfect bind, and runs scale from there to 50,000 copies and beyond. Per-piece cost falls as quantity climbs, so tell us the range you are weighing and we will quote the tiers so you can see the break points. Short pilot runs are a legitimate strategy: print a small edition, put it in front of real buyers, then scale the reprint once the catalog proves itself.

Standard runs move in 3 to 5 business days from approved proof, and heavier page counts or binding passes can add time. Rush schedules are available when the date is firm, and we confirm the production schedule with your quote so the in-hand date is never a guess. If the catalogs mail, the same schedule covers addressing and USPS entry, so the date you plan around is the in-home date, not just the off-press date.

Yes. Our in-house design team can build the catalog from scratch or do a layout cleanup of an existing file, and either path ends in the same place: a print-ready file with correct bleed, color, and page order, proofed before the run. Design is scoped with your quote, so you only pay for the help you actually use.

Ready for a catalog that keeps selling after the meeting?

Since 1989. Veteran-owned. HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2 certified. Quote within one business day. Send the page count, the quantity, and the use case, and we will come back with an itemized number and a binding recommendation you can sanity-check line by line.

Mailing it too? Say so in the request and the quote covers print, list work, and postage together, with the schedule worked backward from your in-home date.

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