TJ Books

About us:

We have a wealth of experience working with independent publishers and wide range of printing and finishing abilities. From High End Photographic and Art books as well as mainstream Novels, Sonnets and beyond. We give the opportunity for authors, writers, and business professionals to take control of their project and turn their book into a reality.



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Printer size:

Established: 1969, Group
For print runs of min. 1 copies–3000, min. extents of 32 pages


Get in touch

Ben Clark (bclark@tjbooks.co.uk)
Address:
Factory address: Trecerus Industrial Estate, Padstow, Cornwall PL28 8RW

Sustainability

Our sustainability considerations include:

  • We only use FSC-approved materials

  • We offer FSC badging (cover)

  • We offer FSC badging (copyright page)

  • We can provide the relevant EUDR information that presses need to process their own DDSs

  • We are able to fulfil EUDR obligations on the behalf of presses

  • We have or subscribe to a tree-planting scheme

  • We subscribe to the Carbon Balanced Paper scheme

  • We offer delivery bundling and/or responsible deliveries

  • We offer discounts for bundling orders

  • We use vegetable-based inks as standard

  • We offer vegetable-based inks

  • We offer carbon footprint information to publishers

  • We do not use plastic in packaging and/or deliveries


Carbon Capture, FSC on all papers, Net Zero Project, (EMS) Environmental Management System in place continually reducing waste and emissions. Full commitment to the principles and objectives of the EUDR.

Energy used

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Carbon footprint offsetting information
Please note: Most of the information on this page is aimed at showing sustainability choices and mesaures; this section demonstrates the printer’s ‘extra mile’ in offsetting their resulting carbon footprint. While it is helpful in showing printers’ attitudes to offsetting, please bear in mind it is of course not necessarily reflective of their total carbon footprint, which we do not ask them to provide here, as printers do not routinely share this information. Data here is provided in percentages only unless otherwise specified by the printer. Information is provided in good faith but presses should exercise caution in relying on figures, and should ask printers for more up-to-date information. We show this information so that presses can use current industry estimates of carbon footprint KGs per book for offsetting, where ~65% of a book’s carbon footprint is in production, transportation accounts for ~25% and packaging makes up ~10%.

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More information and specs

Specs

We offer:

  • digital printing

  • print on demand (POD)

  • automatic stock replenishment (ASR)/direct to Gardners

  • mono (b/w) printing

  • colour printing

  • hardback (PPC)

  • hardback (cloth/foil)

  • sewn paperbacks

  • unsewn/perfect-bound paperbacks

Finishes

We offer:

  • foil blocking

  • spot UV

  • set shrinkwrapping

  • box sets

  • French flaps (8pp covers)

  • duplex covers (4/4 covers)

  • sprayed edges/spredges

  • colour plate sections tipped into mono books selected

  • uncoated/unlaminated options for covers

  • sewn sections

Papers

We carry:

  • Holmen Bookwove 70gsm

  • Munken Premium White 80gsm

  • Munken Premium Cream 80gsm

  • Munken Print 80gsm

  • Munken Premium White 90gsm

Silk/Matt Coated and White uncoated various weights