Turn your print shop into an on-demand hardcover studio.

It’s a hardcover-style book. The Flex Cover contains a steel spine and thermal resin that becomes rigid after binding, so the finished product reads, handles, and shelves like a traditional hardcover. It’s not casebound — there’s no fabric, no headband, no traditional case-making equipment required. The result is the look and feel of a custom hardcover at a fraction of the production time and cost.

At launch: 5 mm (roughly 30-90 sheets of 24# bond) and 9 mm (roughly 90-170 sheets). Additional sizes are on the roadmap — tell us on the demo call which sizes your customers are asking for and we’ll keep you posted.

If you already own a Unibind 60 Pro (or any compatible Peleman thermal binder), you’re set — just toggle the kit to exclude it. If you don’t, the binder is included in the starter kit and pays for itself within the first few months for most shops. It’s the same binder that handles the rest of the Peleman catalog, so you’re not buying single-purpose equipment.

Any wide-format inkjet capable of running coated paper at 35 inches wide. Most shops already have one. The wrap ships in flat sheets pre-scored to the Flex Cover layout — no special media path required.

A traditional dust jacket is loose, flimsy, and wraps only the outside cover. Hardcover Wrap is peel-and-stick, fully adhered, and covers both outside surfaces plus both inside mirror panels — edge to edge. The finished book has no exposed cover board anywhere.

All-in materials run about $5 per book for a typical 80-page interior — Flex Cover ($1.85), Wrap sheet ($1.20), interior paper, plus a small share of resin/electricity. Labor is roughly 5 minutes of hands-on time. Most shops price these at $30-$60 retail depending on the vertical.

From file to finished: about 8 minutes for a single copy — design upload (1 min), wide-format print (2 min), wrap application (2 min), thermal bind (90 sec), trim and inspect (1 min). Runs of 10+ get faster per book as you batch the print and bind cycles.

No. Hardcover Designer ships with templates and is the fastest path to a print-ready file, but you can use InDesign, Illustrator, or any tool that exports a print-ready PDF. We supply the exact bleed, score, and panel dimensions for every Flex Cover SKU.

Yes — that’s the whole point. Files saved in Hardcover Designer reorder in a single click. Real estate agents, in particular, tend to order the same book template repeatedly with new property photos and addresses.

Flex Covers ship by the case (50 per case). Wrap substrate ships in 25-packs. There’s no minimum on what you produce or sell — a quantity-of-one custom book is the same workflow as a run of 100.

Two options. Request a demo and we’ll walk you through the workflow on a video call — we can ship samples to your shop the same day. Or order a sample pack (one finished book in each spine size, plus an unwrapped Flex Cover to inspect the construction) for $39, refunded against your first kit order.

Yes. Print-shop networks, franchises (AlphaGraphics, Minuteman Press, Sir Speedy, Allegra, PostNet, etc.), and equipment dealers qualify for wholesale pricing and co-branded marketing materials. Mention “dealer program” on the demo call.