No. One stock per product, and the answer is fixed:
| Product | Paper |
|---|---|
| Magazine cover | 300 GSM matte cardstock |
| Magazine inner | 170 GSM non-glare smooth |
| Album inner | 250 GSM matte |
| Prints | 300 GSM matte card |
| Card deck | 300 GSM card stock |
| A magazine you designed and send us to print | The magazine stock: 300 GSM cover, 170 GSM inner |
| Diary writing pages | One stock; we do not publish its weight |
Worth explaining rather than just stating, because “we do not offer that” is a poor answer on its own.
What choice would cost
Price. A fixed stock means paper bought in quantity and a printing setup that does not change. Options mean smaller quantities of each, and the price of an 8-page magazine stops being ₹499 and starts being a quote.
Time. Every option is a decision, and decisions are where orders stall. A customer choosing between four papers they cannot feel is a customer not ordering.
Certainty. We know exactly how these stocks print because we print on them constantly. A paper we use occasionally is a paper we know less well.
And most choices are not real choices
⚠️ You cannot judge paper from a description on a screen.
“Premium silk 200 GSM” against “luxe matte 250 GSM” is two phrases. Without holding both, the choice is being made on adjectives — which is why paper menus tend to sell the more expensive option rather than the better-suited one.
We would rather choose once, well, and put it in the price.
What you can choose
Plenty, and it is the part that changes the object:
| Format | Magazine, album, diary, prints, deck, or printing a magazine you designed |
| Size | Square or A4 albums; prints at 3x2, 3x3 or 2x3 inch |
| Page count | 8 to 40 pages; 20 to 100 album pages; 60 to 120 diary sheets; 27 or 52 cards |
| Lamination | Glossy at ₹3 a print, ₹10 a sheet on albums, matte or gloss at ₹10 a page on any magazine |
| Cover image and text | Yours |
| Sequence, captions, layout | All of it, at the proof |
Lamination, product by product
Lamination is the one finish you get to decide, and it is not offered on everything:
| Product | Lamination | Finish | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polaroid prints | Optional | Glossy, water-resistant | ₹3 a print — ₹90 on a 30-print pack |
| Hard cover album | Optional | One option, no finish to pick | ₹10 a sheet of two pages — ₹100 on 20 pages |
| Any magazine — one we design, or one you send us to print | Optional | Matte or gloss, same price | ₹10 a page — ₹20 for the cover only |
| Diaries and card decks | Not offered | — | — |
A worked example. A 24-page magazine you designed costs ₹499 a copy to print. Laminating the cover — front and back outside, which counts as two pages — takes it to ₹519. Laminating every page adds ₹240, so ₹739 a copy. Ten copies for a college society come to ₹5,190 or ₹7,390, plus one flat ₹70 delivery for the order. A 24-page magazine we design is ₹699, and the same lamination costs the same: ₹719 with the cover laminated, ₹939 with every page.
Cover only suits most runs. The cover takes the handling — bags, desks, being passed along a row of chairs — and two laminated pages protect it for ₹20. Every page earns its cost on a booklet that gets handled hard: an event programme passed round a hall, a portfolio carried to interviews, a reference booklet that lives on a shared desk. A keepsake read at home rarely needs its inside pages laminated, and a gloss laminate on every page brings back some of the reflection the non-glare inner stock is there to avoid. Get your magazine printed →
What we genuinely do not do
Said plainly so nobody discovers it late:
- No foil, embossing or spot finishes
- No leather, cloth or specialty covers
- No handmade, textured or coloured stock
- No satin or gloss inner pages on anything we design
- No photo-paper pages
⚠️ If a specific material is the point of the object — a foiled wedding album, a cloth-bound book — a specialist bindery is the right supplier and we would rather say so than take the order.
What a request for different paper usually means
The request is rarely about paper for its own sake. It is usually one of these, and most of them have an answer inside the range:
| What you are after | What gets you there |
|---|---|
| Something that feels more substantial | The album — 250 GSM pages under a rigid hard cover — rather than heavier magazine pages |
| Pages that cope better with small children | Lamination — ₹10 a sheet on an album, ₹10 a page on every page of a magazine |
| A shiny, glossy look | Gloss lamination on any magazine, or glossy lamination on prints |
| Prints for a wall in a humid room | Laminated prints, ₹3 extra a print |
| Thicker magazine pages | Not available: a heavier sheet fights the stapled fold |
| A textured, handmade or coloured page | A specialist bindery, not us |
If none of those rows is what you meant, say it in your own words on WhatsApp before ordering. It is quicker to hear “we cannot do that” before you pay than to find out at the proof.
If you want to see the paper first
We do not send physical samples. We do send a full digital proof of every page before anything prints, which answers layout, sequence and captions but not how the paper feels. Can I see a sample before ordering? →
The lowest-risk way to feel the paper is a print pack at ₹270 — 300 GSM matte card, the same weight as a magazine cover, in your hands for less than the price of a magazine. It tells you about cover weight, not about the 170 GSM pages inside, which are a lighter, smoother sheet.
Frequently asked
Can I choose a different paper? No. One stock per product, and it is a large part of why an 8-page magazine is ₹499 rather than a quote.
Do you offer foil or embossing? No, and neither leather nor cloth covers. A specialist bindery is the right supplier for those.
Can I get glossy pages? Not as paper: inner pages are non-glare for a reason. The glossy options are lamination — glossy on prints, and gloss lamination on any magazine, one we design or one you designed and send us to print, on the cover or on every page. Get your magazine printed →
Can I see the paper before ordering? Not as a physical sample. A print pack at ₹270 is the cheapest way to get 300 GSM matte card in your hands.
What can I choose? Format, size, page count, lamination, the cover, and every layout and caption decision at the proof.
Part of our guide to paper and printing. See also: how to judge paper quality and can I see a sample before ordering?.
One stock, in the price: Photo magazines from ₹499 · Print packs from ₹270