Print on demand with BookVault or Lulu
Set up paperbacks and hardbacks printed by BookVault or Lulu. Choose the printer, binding, trim size, paper and page count, and upload your PDFs.
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With print on demand, a printer makes each copy when a reader orders it and posts it to them. You keep no stock. Lanternbee works with BookVault and Lulu.
Set up a printed format
- Open a book in Books.
- Add Paperback or Hardback as a format, or use the one your Formats settings created. Its How readers get it should be Printed for each order.
- Under Print details, choose:
- Printer: BookVault or Lulu.
- Binding: paperback or hardback.
- Book size (inches): 5x8, 5.25x8, 5.5x8.5 or 6x9.
- Paper: cream or white.
- Pages: your page count.
- Upload your Inside pages (PDF) (up to 500 MB) and Print cover (PDF from your cover designer) (up to 200 MB). The print cover is the full wrap as one PDF: back cover, spine and front cover side by side, with bleed. Printers don’t accept JPG or PNG for it. The picture readers see in your store is the separate Cover on the book’s Details step, which takes JPG, PNG or WebP.
- Choose Save print details. You can only save once both PDFs are uploaded.
When the print details are saved, the format says Ready to sell.
Check your files with the printer
Each printer has its own rules for margins, bleed and spine width. Use the templates and file checks on BookVault’s or Lulu’s own site before you upload.
Not built yet
Sending each paid order to the printer is being built. Until then, place each print order with BookVault or Lulu yourself, using the address on the order. The print details you save now are what we will send.