Decorating Method: Offset Printing

  • Alpha Cowhide®

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  • Alpha Goat®

    Alpha Goat® is a thermo-sensitive, non-woven cover material that offers a plush touch and leather-like look. The unique feel of PU combined with authentic textures in modern leather tones, makes it the designers’ choice for hardcover books, diaries, bibles, hang tags, luxury boxes, and multimedia packaging. Alpha Goat® is CPSIA and REACH 161 complaint, solvent and heavy-metal free, and passes all SGS requests, making it the designer’s choice for a sustainable, quality, synthetic leather covering material.

  • Alpha Skiver®

    Impressionable, soft, and sooth, Alpha Skiver® brings luxury covering designs to a whole new level of appeal. Available in an extensive selection of contemporary colors and boasting an excellent surface for blind stamping, foil stamping, and heat burnishing, Skiver® is the modern designer’s choice for quality, synthetic leather covering options. Part of the Alpha series top-of-the-line PU cover material, its supple feel and matte, soft-touch finish lends itself to a wide range of stationery and book applications. Skiver® is CPSIA and REACH 161 compliant, contains no solvents or heavy metals, and passed all SGS requests, making it both sustainable and sophisticated— a top designers perfect solution.

  • Arrestox

    Perfect for book covers and media packaging, Arrestox® is an aqueous-impregnated, 100% natural cotton cloth. The most recognized name in the industry, Arrestox cloth is extremely durable and performs well in a wide range of publishing and turned edge applications. It is exceptionally functional and accepts glue well. Because Arrestox is easy to decorate you can use the technique of your choice to create unique look and consumer appeal for book cover and packaging applications. Arrestox has excellent stain, mildew and crock resistance. It also has good water resistance, UV light resistance, scuff resistance, and good abrasion resistance.

  • Assuan

    Assuan is a tissue lined rayon viscose book cloth cover material with exceptional foil blocking capabilities. This versatile material is available in 29 colors that will give your book or packaging a premium look and feel.

  • Greenleaf Paper

    Greenleaf Paper sets a new standard for premium cover and endleaf materials, offering a smoother, stronger, and more refined surface than traditional 80 lb kraft-based alternatives. Engineered for high-quality book production and packaging, Greenleaf delivers consistent performance across printing, stamping, and finishing processes. Its enhanced surface allows inks to sit cleanly and evenly, producing sharper detail and richer color whether using screen, UV, or offset printing. Greenleaf also accepts blind and foil stamping with exceptional clarity, minimizing impression distortion and ensuring crisp, professional results. Beyond print performance, Greenleaf’s reinforced strength and stability reduce tearing, cracking, and warping, allowing projects to maintain their integrity throughout production and everyday use. The result is a more durable, premium-looking finished product compared to lower-cost alternatives in this category. Ideal for hardcover books, endleaf applications, premium packaging, stationery, and specialty projects, Greenleaf Paper gives manufacturers a noticeable upgrade in quality, without requiring major changes to existing workflows.

  • Hyflex

    Hyflex is a latex reinforced heavy weight material, made with the unique Hyflex® construction designed to provide long life and withstand hard abuse. This design offers a highly flexible sheet, with significant strength and crack resistance. Hyflex® is made to be finished either on or off-line with aqueous or UV topcoats and is designed for many self-supported product applications.

    Hyflex® 7
    6 mil thickness
    Color: White
    Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 7 additional embossings

    Hyflex® 9
    9 mil thickness
    Color: White
    Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 5 additional embossings

    Hyflex® 12
    12.3 mil thickness
    Color: White
    Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 5 additional embossings

  • Italux

    Italux is a B grade cloth made of 100% natural cotton and coated with an aqueous acrylic topcoat that is water and stain resistant. It’s available in linen and vellum finishes, and is perfect for Book Covers, Diaries, Planners, Yearbooks, Spirits Boxes, Fragrance Boxes, Sample Systems, Binders, Menus, Media, Hotel Directories, Bags, and Invitations.

    ***Starred colors are non-stocked

  • Kivar 2 Performa

    Kivar 2 Performa is a Latex reinforced specification grade material. It exceeds NASTA Type II non-woven specifications Class A through E. A rugged premium sheet, which exhibits outstanding image reproduction.

    •Exceeds NASTA Type II non-woven specifications Class A through E for elementary/high school textbook usage.
    •Choice of smooth Chrome finish or 7 embossed textures (Antique, Cambric, Firenze, Homespun, Linenweave, Chisel,Satique).
    •Rugged premium sheet that exhibits outstanding image reproduction.

  • Kivar 3 Performa

    Kivar 3 Performa is an economical yet durable offset printable covering material that is latex reinforced making it extra stong, flexible and moisture resistant.

    •Available in 14, 17 and 22 mil thickness
    •Available in Chrome and 7 embossings: Antique, Cambric, Firenze, Homespun, Linenweave, Chisel, Satique
    •Meets NASTA class AA and BB standards
    •Excellent ink holdout
    • Heavyweight for soft cover book or self supporting cover applications

     

  • Kivar 4-12 Performa

    Kivar 4-12 is a Northern Kraft based sheet with acrylic-coated surface for optimal print quality.

    •Choice of smooth Chrome finish or 7 embossed textures (Antique, Cambric, Firenze, Homespun, Linenweave, Chisel, Satique)
    •Excellent ink holdout
    •Strong and flexible
    •Superior print performance at an economical price
    •Heavyweight for soft cover book or self supporting cover applications
    •Meets NASTA class AA/BB standards

  • Linen Set

    Linen-Set is an aqueous-coated cloth for offset and screen-printing (white litho cloth that has an aqueous acrylic coating). Because it accepts print exceptionally well, you can use Linen-Set cloth for any cover or specialty packaging application that requires both a lot of decoration and the look and feel of cloth.

  • Luminaire

    Luminaire book cloth light-infused 100% natural cotton is coated with a pearlescent aqueous coating. This premium grade B fabric retains the look and feel of a woven fabric. New to the industry, Luminaire’s pearlescent glow is extremely unique. This cloth performs well in a wide range of packaging and specialty bookbinding applications. It is exceptionally functional and accepts glue well.

    Because Luminaire cloth is easy to decorate, you can use the technique of your choice to create a unique look therefore increasing consumer appeal for both book cover and packaging applications.

  • Matador

    Matador® is an eco-friendly soft-touch material that offers the lush lavish feel of imported PU without breaking your wallet. The silky matte finish entices your senses and leaves you wanting more. Matador® is a water-based, saturated paper engineered with design enhancing capabilities to allow customization using superior offset and screen printing, foil stamping, blind stamping, and embossing. Feel the difference with Matador®.

  • Montelena

    Montelena elevates any project with its refined 13pt profile and exceptionally soft, supple hand. Crafted as a next-generation, cellulose-based alternative to PU, it offers a sophisticated, soft-touch leather finish that feels both modern and timeless. The thermo-reactive surface enhances customization, capturing crisp details with remarkable clarity.

    Designed with elevated presentation in mind, Montelena blends luxury aesthetics with an environmentally minded composition—making it an ideal choice for premium books, packaging, and statement pieces that demand both beauty and substance.

  • Rainbow 70#

    Available in more than 80 colors and 100 embossings, RAINBOW® is the market leader for dyed-through, colored kraft paper. Under the umbrella of the RAINBOW® line of products, our front runner RAINBOW® 70 not only brings excitement and versatility to the design process, but also takes the lead for both its economical and ecological advantages. RAINBOW® 70 upholds the U.S. standard for endleaf and side panels on hardcover juvenile trade books, and also makes it a brilliant choice for box wraps, slipcase covers and liners. Whatever application you choose, RAINBOW® 70 is sure to impress with its natural appearance and flawless finish.

  • Rainbow 80 Hemp

    Rainbow® 80 Hemp is an 80#, 100% PCW (Post Consumer Waste) Kraft that maintains exceptional stamping and printing capabilities in a diverse and environmentally friendly cover material. Rainbow® 80 is well-known as the market leader in covering material for full cover, side, spine, and endleaf for hardcover books, and makes a fine packaging wrap for a variety of industries such as wine & spirits, fragrance, fashion, apparel, food, etc.

    Rainbow® 80 makes the perfect canvas for screen printing, UV, and offset printing, or for decorating with blind or foil stamp. For optimal digital printing, custom Digital Black and Digital Opaque colors offer HP Indigo Certified options.

  • Rainbow 80# ®

    RAINBOW® 80# is a standard 80 lb cover material commonly used for full covers, sides, spines, and endleaf applications in hardcover book production. It is also used as a general-purpose wrap for packaging across a range of industries, including wine and spirits, fragrance, fashion, apparel, and food. The material provides added thickness compared to RAINBOW® 70 and is compatible with common printing methods such as screen, UV, and offset printing. It can also be decorated with blind or foil stamping. For projects requiring a smoother surface, stronger performance, and a more premium finished result, customers may want to consider Greenleaf Paper as an enhanced alternative.

  • Rainbow Essex

    Essex combines 80# is a dyed-through kraft with a subtle print and tactile cloth embossing, giving a linen-like visual that’s intended for packaging and book covers requiring minimal strength. Unfortunately, this product is currently discontinued.

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