Custom Funeral Perfect Bound Jotter Notebook

Most families order both, and the split is usually the point. This one has a printed spine, so it stands on a shelf with the name readable — that is the copy for the family, the pallbearers, the clergy and the people who travelled. The spiral version lies flat and costs less, which makes it the one to print in volume for everybody at the service. If you are only ordering one, order the spiral; if you want something the immediate family keeps on a shelf, order a few of these as well.

No, and that is the trade for the spine. A glued binding holds the pages in a block, so the book wants to close the way a novel does. If it is going to be written in every day, the wire bound version is the better one. If it is going to be kept, looked at and shelved, this is.

It gets used. A programme is read once at the service and a hand fan lasts an hour; a notebook goes home, and the portrait on the cover is seen every time it is opened for a year or more. This version goes one further — even closed on a shelf, the name on the spine keeps the person in the room.

Send it and we will tell you honestly. Print enlarges whatever it is given, so a picture that is sharp on a phone can soften across a B5 cover while being perfect on an A6. We clean up what you send, and if it will not carry the size you want we say so before printing, not after.

A hundred is the minimum. Families consistently under-order because they count the church rather than the compound — two to three hundred is common for a burial with a reception, and the per-copy price falls as the run grows, so the step up costs less than it looks. For this version specifically, many families order a smaller run — twenty or fifty hard covers for the family — alongside a larger spiral order.

Say so when you order. Standard production is 7–10 working days and priority is 4–6, and priority exists for exactly this: a burial date does not move. Delivery adds 1–3 working days in Lagos and 2–6 elsewhere, so tell us the service date and we will say plainly whether it can be met.

Up to twenty full-colour pages bound in at the front, ahead of the ruled ones — the order of service, a biography, tributes, the appreciation, a photo gallery, or several of them together. After those it is ruled paper, which is what keeps the book in use rather than in a drawer.

Foil stamping comes in ten colours, gold and silver among them, and it reads best on a matte cover. The hard cover with an elastic band is what families choose for themselves; the soft cover is lighter and cheaper and suits a larger run. Both take the same cover printing and the same lamination.

7–10 working days as standard, or 4–6 working days with priority handling, which carries a priority fee. 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 ₦2,000 each and 1,000 at ₦1,800 — ₦200 off every one, or ₦200,000 across the larger order. The build is the next thing: A6 Soft-cover Jotter starts at ₦2,000 against ₦7,000 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, Metal Corner Protectors 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.