Custom Bookmark Printing for Readers, Retail and Promotion
Custom bookmark printing gives authors, publishers, schools, retailers, artists, and independent brands a practical printed product that people keep and reuse. It exists for projects where a simple page marker can also become merchandise, packaging insert, event handout, gift item, or branded promotional piece.
Create Bookmarks That Work Beyond the Page
Printed bookmarks suit book launches, subscription boxes, classrooms, bookstores, cafés, conventions, stationery ranges, and author merchandise. Choose from a wide selection of papers, sizes, and finishing options, then complete your order online before replying to your Order Confirmation email with your artwork or design brief.
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Give readers the perfect pairing with custom bookmarks designed for books, gifts, events, and retail.
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Extend artwork into merchandise using paper stocks and finishes suited to different bookmark styles.
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Create repeat-use promotion with bookmarks readers can keep inside books long after the first handout.
Custom Bookmark Styles for Every Project
Whether you’re creating bookmarks for marketing, retail, education, or special occasions, choosing the right style helps your design make a lasting impression. From premium metallic foils and custom die cut shapes to practical magnetic bookmarks and personalized keepsakes, our range is designed to suit everything from business promotions to memorable gifts.
Each bookmark style offers its own unique advantages, allowing you to match the finish, durability, and presentation to your project. Explore the options below to discover which bookmark best complements your artwork, audience, and budget.


Die Cut Bookmarks
Create bookmarks in almost any custom shape to reflect your brand, event, or artwork. Perfect for promotional campaigns, themed events, character illustrations, and distinctive retail products that stand out from traditional rectangular bookmarks.


Magnetic Bookmarks
Keep your place securely with custom magnetic bookmarks that clip neatly over the page without slipping. A popular choice for schools, universities, bookstores, libraries, and businesses looking for a practical promotional product.


Metallic Foil Bookmarks
Add a premium touch with metallic foil available in Gold, Silver, Rose Gold, Copper, Holographic, and a range of vibrant foil colours. Ideal for luxury branding, wedding stationery, premium packaging, and commemorative keepsakes.


Holographic Foil Bookmarks
Capture attention with shimmering holographic foil that changes appearance as it catches the light. Perfect for artists, retailers, gaming brands, children’s products, promotional giveaways, and creative marketing campaigns.
Bookmarks for Every Occasion
Professionally printed bookmarks are suitable for far more than simply marking pages. Whether you’re celebrating a milestone, promoting your business, fundraising for a charity, or creating thoughtful keepsakes, custom bookmarks offer a practical product people will continue to use long after the event has finished.
From personal gifts to large promotional campaigns, our wide range of paper stocks, finishes, and customization options makes it easy to create bookmarks that are both memorable and functional.


Photo Bookmarks
Turn favourite photographs into personalized bookmarks that make thoughtful gifts, graduation keepsakes, family mementos, or memorable promotional items with vibrant full-colour printing.


School Bookmarks
Encourage reading while promoting your school, library, or literacy programme. Ideal for classrooms, reading challenges, awards, educational events, and student achievements.


Funeral Bookmarks
Create respectful memorial bookmarks featuring photographs, meaningful messages, prayers, or poems to provide family and friends with a lasting tribute to a loved one.


Wedding Favour Bookmarks
Offer guests a practical keepsake they’ll continue to use long after your wedding day. Personalize your bookmarks with names, dates, favourite quotes, or photographs to create memorable wedding favours.
Explore Our Premium Bookmark Paper Collection
The paper stock you choose plays an important role in how your bookmarks look, feel, and perform over time. From smooth coated finishes that produce vibrant, detailed printing to textured specialty papers that add character and depth, each material creates a different reading experience and leaves a lasting impression on your audience.
Whether you’re printing promotional bookmarks for bookstores, schools, and libraries, creating premium branded bookmarks for authors and businesses, or producing illustrated keepsakes to sell online, selecting the right paper helps bring your design to life. Browse our collection of coated, uncoated, recycled, Colourplan, and specialty papers, or learn more about the differences in our guide to Gloss, Silk, and Uncoated Paper.
What Is the Standard Size for a Bookmark?
We offer two popular bookmark sizes: 2 x 6” (52 x 148 mm) and 2 x 8” (52 x 210 mm), each suited to different types of books, promotions, and creative projects.
The 2 x 6” format is a compact option that’s ideal for paperbacks, children’s books, classroom rewards, promotional giveaways, and smaller bookmark designs. If you need more room for artwork, branding, photography, quotations, or QR codes, the 2 x 8” size provides additional space while fitting comfortably inside most hardback books.
If you’re looking for something more unique, we also offer custom-sized bookmarks. Simply select the custom size option when placing your order and enter your preferred dimensions. This is a great choice if you’re matching a specific publication, creating personalized bookmarks, or producing promotional bookmarks for events, campaigns, or retail products.
Should I Add Lamination to My Bookmarks?
Lamination isn’t essential for every bookmark, but it’s a worthwhile upgrade if your bookmarks will be handled regularly or need to maintain their appearance over time. Adding a laminate helps protect the printed surface from scuffs, fingerprints, and everyday wear, making it a popular choice for promotional, retail, and educational bookmarks.
We offer gloss, matte, and soft-touch lamination on compatible paper stocks. Gloss lamination enhances colour vibrancy and creates a reflective finish, matte lamination provides a smooth, understated appearance, and soft-touch lamination gives bookmarks a luxurious, velvety feel. If you choose metallic foil, soft-touch lamination is included as part of our foiling process to ensure a crisp, consistent finish.
Lamination is particularly beneficial for bookmarks used in bookstores, libraries, schools, subscription boxes, marketing campaigns, and retail packaging, where they’ll be handled frequently. If you’re comparing the different laminate finishes, our guide to lamination and the facts explains how each option affects the look, feel, and durability of your printed bookmarks.
Can You Print and Design My Bookmarks?
Absolutely! Whether you already have print-ready artwork or need help bringing your ideas to life, we can help. You can upload your own bookmark design, or our experienced in-house design team can create a custom bookmark based on your brief.
When placing your order, simply choose your preferred size, paper stock, print options, and finishing touches. If you’re supplying artwork, send your files after checkout and we’ll check them before production. If you’d like us to create the design, select our artwork service and provide your text, images, branding, colour preferences, and any examples or inspiration you’d like us to follow.
Before your bookmarks are printed, we’ll email you a digital proof for approval, giving you the opportunity to review every detail and request any final changes. If you’re looking for inspiration before getting started, our guide to designing your own bookmark is a great place to begin.
What Paper Is Used for Bookmarks?
Choosing the right paper stock is one of the most important decisions when creating custom bookmarks. Because bookmarks are designed to be handled repeatedly, we recommend durable, high-quality paper stocks that combine excellent print quality with long-lasting performance.
Our range includes silk, gloss, uncoated, and recycled paper stocks, each offering its own unique finish. Silk provides vibrant colour reproduction with a smooth, professional appearance, gloss enhances brightness and image detail, uncoated delivers a natural, tactile feel that’s easy to write on, and recycled stock is an excellent choice if you’re looking for a more environmentally conscious option.
The ideal paper depends on how your bookmarks will be used. Promotional bookmarks, retail products, and marketing campaigns often benefit from smooth coated stocks with optional lamination, while memorial bookmarks, educational resources, and artist-designed bookmarks can look particularly effective on uncoated or recycled papers. If you’d like to compare the different materials, our guides to different types of printing paper and Gloss, Silk, and Uncoated Paper explain how each stock influences the finished result.
How Do I Supply My Bookmark Artwork?
After placing your order, simply reply to your order confirmation email with your print-ready artwork attached. If your files are too large to email, you can send us a download link and our team will retrieve them for you.
Your artwork should be prepared at the correct finished bookmark size and include bleed, safe areas, and any finishing elements required for production. If your bookmarks include metallic foil, hole drilling, rounded corners, QR codes, or other specialist finishes, these should be clearly identified within your artwork to help ensure an accurate result.
If you’re using photographs, we recommend supplying high-resolution original images wherever possible. Images downloaded from social media or captured as screenshots often don’t provide enough quality for professional printing. Once we receive your files, our prepress team will review them for any obvious setup issues before production begins.
If you’d like to learn more about preparing your files, our guides to how to set up photos for print and getting bleed right explain how to prepare artwork for the best possible printing results.
Can You Add a Hole to My Bookmarks?
Yes. We can add a 5 mm drilled hole to your bookmarks, making them ideal for attaching ribbons, tassels, twine, or packaging ties. This popular finishing option adds both decorative appeal and practical functionality, whether you’re creating retail bookmarks, promotional products, gifts, or event keepsakes.
You can select the drilled hole option when configuring your order. If your artwork includes a preferred hole position, we’ll follow your instructions wherever possible. If no position is specified, the hole will normally be placed centrally at the top of the bookmark to provide a balanced, professional appearance.
When designing your bookmark, remember to leave sufficient space around the drilled hole. Keeping text, logos, QR codes, and important artwork clear of this area helps ensure nothing is obscured once the bookmark has been finished.
Can You Print Double-Sided Bookmarks?
Yes. We offer both single-sided and double-sided bookmark printing, giving you the flexibility to create a design that best suits your project. Whether you’re producing bookmarks for authors, artists, schools, libraries, businesses, or promotional campaigns, printing on both sides provides additional space for creativity and information.
Many customers choose double-sided bookmarks so they look complete from every angle. You can continue your artwork across both sides for a seamless design, or use the reverse to include practical details such as an author biography, website, social media links, QR code, contact information, or an inspiring quotation. This makes double-sided bookmarks particularly popular for retail products, book launches, marketing campaigns, and branded merchandise.
Because bookmarks have a slim format, it’s usually best to keep text clear and concise. A balanced layout with generous spacing helps ensure your bookmark remains attractive and easy to read while allowing your artwork to remain the focal point.
Can I Add Foil to My Custom Bookmarks?
Absolutely. Metallic foil is one of the most popular finishing options for custom bookmarks, adding a luxurious reflective effect that helps your design stand out. Whether you’re creating bookmarks for authors, artists, businesses, weddings, or promotional campaigns, foil adds an eye-catching finish that gives your bookmarks a more premium feel.
We offer a choice of 12 metallic foil colours, including Gold, Silver, Rose Gold, Copper, Pink, Violet, Red, Blue, Teal, Green, Black Chrome, and Holographic. Foil works particularly well for highlighting titles, logos, monograms, decorative borders, illustrations, and other key design elements without overwhelming the overall artwork.
Metallic foil is available on compatible paper stocks and includes our signature soft-touch lamination, providing a smooth, velvety finish while helping the foil achieve crisp, consistent detail. If you’re preparing your own artwork, our guide to setting up artwork for foil printing with examples explains how to prepare foil layers correctly before production. You can also explore our complete foil colour collection to find the perfect finish for your bookmarks.
Can I Print Bookmarks to Sell with My Books?
Absolutely. Custom bookmarks are a popular addition for authors, publishers, and independent bookstores looking to create a more complete reading experience. They’re ideal for selling alongside books, including with online orders, giving away at book launches, or offering as promotional merchandise at signings and literary events.
A professionally printed bookmark is both practical and memorable. You can feature book cover artwork, character illustrations, author branding, series logos, quotations, or QR codes linking to your website or latest release. Whether you’re creating a collectible keepsake or a branded promotional item, bookmarks are an effective way to extend your book’s identity beyond the printed pages.
Many authors choose double-sided printing, using one side for the main artwork and the reverse for an author biography, reading list, website, or a personal message to readers. If you’d like to explore how printed books continue to engage readers in a digital world, our guide to printed books vs. e-books is a great place to start.
Can I Order Wholesale Bookmarks?
Yes. We print wholesale bookmarks for publishers, authors, schools, libraries, charities, retailers, museums, subscription boxes, and businesses looking to order larger quantities at competitive prices. Whether you’re stocking a retail display, supporting a marketing campaign, or creating branded merchandise, we can produce bookmarks to suit projects of almost any size.
Ordering in higher volumes typically reduces the cost per bookmark, making wholesale printing a cost-effective option if you’re selling bookmarks, including them with customer purchases, or distributing them at events and exhibitions. You can customise your size, paper stock, print options, finishing, and quantity using our online calculator to receive an instant price based on your exact specification.
When planning a wholesale order, it’s worth considering the finished product as a whole. The right combination of paper thickness, lamination, hole drilling, ribbon options, and print finish can make a significant difference to both the appearance and durability of your bookmarks. If you’re looking for inspiration before creating your design, our guide to pairing bookmarks with your current read explores creative ways to make your bookmarks even more memorable.
Can I Print Personalized Bookmarks for Schools?
Absolutely. We print personalized bookmarks for schools across Canada, making them ideal for reading programmes, classroom rewards, school libraries, book fairs, literacy initiatives, and student recognition. They’re an affordable way to encourage reading while creating a lasting keepsake that students will continue to use.
Your bookmarks can be fully customized with school logos, mascots, class names, reading challenge themes, student artwork, motivational messages, or event branding. Whether you’re celebrating World Book Day, rewarding reading achievements, or promoting a school library, custom bookmarks can be tailored to suit pupils of all ages.
For bookmarks that will be used regularly by students, we recommend choosing a durable paper stock with optional lamination to help protect against everyday wear and tear. Once printed, your bookmarks are carefully packaged and delivered ready to distribute in classrooms, libraries, reading packs, assemblies, or school events.
We offer two popular bookmark sizes: 2 x 6” (52 x 148 mm) and 2 x 8” (52 x 210 mm), each suited to different types of books, promotions, and creative projects.
The 2 x 6” format is a compact option that’s ideal for paperbacks, children’s books, classroom rewards, promotional giveaways, and smaller bookmark designs. If you need more room for artwork, branding, photography, quotations, or QR codes, the 2 x 8” size provides additional space while fitting comfortably inside most hardback books.
If you’re looking for something more unique, we also offer custom-sized bookmarks. Simply select the custom size option when placing your order and enter your preferred dimensions. This is a great choice if you’re matching a specific publication, creating personalized bookmarks, or producing promotional bookmarks for events, campaigns, or retail products.
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