Self Cover refers to a book’s or booklet’s cover. Most covers have a thicker stock, whether it be a hard cover or a paper cover.  Sometimes, a booklet will have a minimal amount of pages, and in this situation a booklet would simply not lay flat if it had a thicker cover. Thus, it would be necessary to have the cover be the same thickness and type of stock as the inside pages, which is conveniently called a Self Cover.

Self Cover can also be recommended for those clients that are wanting to save money. Logically, if the cover of a book or booklet is thicker, it needs to be collated with the inside pages at a later time, resulting in a higher service cost. A Self Cover project can be run at the same time as the inside pages, so long as both are either color or black and white (again, having a difference in color will require the job to be collated because it would be run on two different printers).

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