Thesis Printing and Binding Quotation Request Form

Acme's on-demand thesis printing and binding service offers students a reasonably priced, beautiful hard cover binding option and is easy and fast. Our service has been designed to simplify binding your dissertation to meet the requirements of your university or college.

Acme has been doing this since 1821. In fact our company president, Paul Parisi, is the co-editor of the National Standard on Library Binding.

Printing Process

Simply send us your PDF file. See our instructions for converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF. We assume that all printing is to be  black and white. If you require color please but sure to let us know. We can produce as many copies as you require, plus we can make a PDF DVD as well.

We print on white 20# alkaline paper that is acid-free, long-fiber, and will have the grain direction running in the correct direction to facilitate easy reading. Paper meets the requirements of the ANSI Standard for permanence of paper Z39.49-1992 (R1997). All printing will be simplex (single-sided), unless we are instructed otherwise.

Binding Process Description

Pages are bound using a notched double-fan adhesive (DFA) process. DFA produces a very strong but flexible binding. Because of its durability DFA is used extensively for binding periodicals and monographs for research libraries around the world.

Options

Oversewing is available as an extra charge option which some students need to meet school requirements for a sewn binding. Simple spine lettering, with title, author and year is included in the base price. Front cover lettering is available for an additional charge.

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Thesis Binding Features

• Standard 2-Week Service
• Hard Cover binding
  • Foil or pigment stamped cloth covers
• Standard Size Books
  • 8-1/2" x 11" x 2"
• Custom Size Books * prices quoted based on actual size
  • Maximum Width 16 inches
  • Maximum Height 15 inches
  • Any book over 2" thick -- $10.00 extra charge
• Ultrabind double-fan adhesive binding
  • Minimum Thickness 3/8 inches
  • Maximum Thickness 2 inches
• Hand double-fan adhesive binding
  • No Minimum Thickness
  • Maximum Thickness 3"
• Oversewing
  • No Minimum Thickness
  • Maximum Thickness 5"

Additional Services

• No Minimum Order
• 1-Week Rush Service
• 2-Day Rush Service
• 1-Day Rush Service
• Super Rush--as needed Service
• Return Shipping
• Pocket for maps or charts
• Stubbing for folded plates
• GBC or Velo-binding
• "Sky is the limit" Leather cover, gilt edges, your Graduation Gift from Mom and Dad?
• Disk/CD Insertion