Custom Spiral Bound Jotter Notepad

From ₦1,700 a jotter, from a hundred. The size, the cover and the inner paper weight all move the price, and each is priced on the page as you choose it.

Spiral opens completely flat and stays open on a desk, which is what you want for a training pack or anything written in while standing. Perfect binding gives a square printed spine that can be read on a shelf — better as a corporate gift, less good to write in.

Hard cover survives a bag and is the one to give delegates who will carry it all week. Soft cover is lighter and cheaper and is the usual school choice.

70gsm is standard and fine for a biro. 80gsm is the safer choice where people write on both sides. 100gsm is worth it for executives using fountain pens, where show-through is the complaint you would otherwise get.

Seven to ten working days as standard, four to six on priority. Conference packs are the common order here — give us the date and we work backwards from it. Those are windows rather than fixed dates: on the standard window it can be ready as early as the 7th working day, and the 10th is the longest you would be waiting. We tell you as soon as it is ready rather than holding a finished job back to the end of the window.

Quantity does most of it: 100 works out at ₦1,700 each and 1,000 at ₦1,530 — ₦170 off every one, or ₦170,000 across the larger order. The build is the next thing: A6 Soft-cover Jotter starts at ₦1,700 against ₦6,500 for B5 Hard-cover Jotter. Several questions have an answer that costs nothing and one that does — Matte Lamination costs nothing where Sparkle Sand adds ₦1,200 each, White costs nothing where Black adds ₦1,200 each, 80 Leaves · 160 Pages costs nothing where 120 Leaves · 240 Pages adds ₦560 each and 80gsm Bond Paper costs nothing where 100gsm Bond Paper adds ₦160 each. None of those is a lesser product; they are the standard build. And the add-ons really are extra — Spot Gloss, Foil Stamped Logo, Matte PP Waterproof Cover Sheet and the rest are each priced on top, so leaving off the ones the job does not need is the quickest saving on the page.

Matte and super gloss are both included: matte does not look laminated at all — no shine, so it reads as plain uncoated stock, and you only know the film is there by the feel and by water sitting on it rather than soaking in, super gloss is the mirror finish: a high shine that throws the light back, colours brighter and more vivid, and the film resists scratches, dirt and damp. Holographic adds ₦750 to ₦2,000 depending on the size — a rainbow shift across the whole surface that moves as it is turned. Sparkle Sand adds ₦1,200 to ₦3,000 depending on the size. It is a fine sand grain that catches the light like a silver chain, it is the heaviest of the films so it stiffens the stock and reads a weight thicker than it is, and it is scratch resistant — something handled every day still looks new months later. The one thing to know about Sparkle Sand is that it needs a colour under it. On a white background there is nothing for the grain to catch and the effect is largely wasted; on deep, solid colours it comes alive, and on black it is the best it ever looks. We will say so before printing if the artwork is mostly white.