Category: Bookbinding Paper & Paper Cover Materials

Bookbinding Paper & Paper cover materials are a versatile and cost effective solution in comparison to most cloth, leather and polyurethane (PU) cover materials. We carry a wide variety of coated and uncoated papers to suit any projects needs. Soft touch, faux leather and linen are a few possibilities with paper.

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Carbon X by Corvon

Carbon-X is a unique cover material with an embossing that mimics carbon fiber. It offers a striking visual association with luxury, high-end, high-performance brands.
Docu Cover II

Docu-Cover II is a latex saturated 17pt paper cover material. Docu-Cover II offers prestige to all your corporate presentations.

It is the product of choice for high quality soft cover binding. Custom colours are available on a make-to-order basis.
Eco-Cover

Eco-Cover® is the perfect choice for high-end presentation covers, perfect-bound books, planners, address books and more. With it’s self-supporting properties, this flexible, sturdy material is composed of a saturated base and finished with a protective acrylic top coat that gives it strength and wear resistance— without the extra hassle or cost of lamination. You have your choice of fully coated back or a natural, uncoated back. Additional soft-touch and matte design options are also available for added customization and authenticity. Colors range from traditional solids to metallic shades, all offered in 9 different embossings and 3 thickness options (17, 22, or 25-point).
Excel

Excel® is a light-weight, saturated cover material offered in Classic, Select, and Design Collections, each with unique color and finish combinations. The Classic Collection features traditional colors with a standard gloss finish and the Select Collection for a wider range of fashion-forward colors with a modern, satin finish. The Design Collection is perfect when you require the look and finish of linen, but prefer the ease of use of a saturated material. Excel® has a flexible slim-fitting composition and our library of stocked colors make it the designer’s choice for style with economy and the manufacturer’s ally in machine and hand-made production processes. Excel® is perfect for creating eye-catching book covers, packaging, and stationery.
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
Iridescents by Corvon

Shimmering, lustrous iridescent coating in a latex-saturated covering material. Iridescents by Corvon is available in 16 colours with Polish, Weave and Bengaline textures.
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
Kivar 7

Kivar 7 is a lightweight latex-saturated covering material that comes in simulated leather and cloth patterns. Kivar 7 is lightweight, durable and economical, and comes in 30 stock colours and 6 embossings.
Kivar Sutton

Kivar Sutton simulates cloth patterns in a lightweight latex-saturated covering material.

Standard colours are Navy Linen & Black Linen.
Lumina

Lumina is an acrylic coated kraft based cover material with colours inspired by precious stones and metals. Lumina dazzles with its selection of fine shimmery pigments and neutral earthy tones. Lumina is acid free, carbon black free, lignin free, chlorine free, archival and recyclable.
Mano

Mano is a premium soft-touch coated paper designed to add sophistication to packaging and books. Its smooth surface and unique tactile experience create a lasting impression on users, elevating the presentation of products and publications. With exceptional print quality and durability, Mano ensures that designs are showcased with clarity and vibrancy, making it the perfect choice for brands seeking luxury and refinement.
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®.
Metal-X by Corvon

Metal-X by Corvon has rich, metallic tones and distinctive textures that add to a dramatic visual appeal. Metal-X is a latex-saturated cover material that is ideal for set-up boxes and book coverings.
Metallics by Skivertex

Metallics by Skivertex has a metallic coating and satin sheen that creates a high-tech, reflective look. Metallics is a latex saturated decorative cover material that is available in 12 colours and 4 textures.
Mirage Classic®

Mirage® Classic is the base line of Mirage®, an environmentally friendly, acrylic coated material that offers the same style and heat-burnishing qualities of a PU product. While additional print and embossing designs are included in our other Mirage® lines, Mirage® Classic delivers the simplicity of a classic, antique, matte finish with a perfectly flush, solid color, providing a clean slate for your own creative designs. Mirage® Classic is most commonly used as a cover material for books, journals, bibles, CD/multimedia packaging, jewelry boxes, and more.
Mirage Corsica®

Mirage® Corsica is designed to resemble the revered traits of old softened leather, bringing a sense of comfort and familiarity to your design projects. This material is first crafted with a water base, color coat, and special top coat that’s designed for a lush, soft feel. Print and texture is added to give the appearance of either lightly worn or heavily cracked leather, whichever characteristic is more relevant to your design goals. Mirage® Corsica is suitable for covering books, bibles, binders, journals, luxury packaging and more.
Mirage Distressed®

As timeless as the stories it protects, Mirage® Distressed gives your projects and designs that antiquated look that never goes out of style. The subtle embossing pattern reproduces the appearance of naturally distressed leather, but for a fraction of the cost. Mirage® Distressed is perfect for covering bibles, religious books, photo books, yearbooks, luxury packaging, photo mount, diaries and journals.
Mirage Nouveau®

Mirage® Nouveau is a modern cover material that resembles tightly stitched weaves with crisp lines and symmetry. Offered in a selection of colorful hues from our Classic line, Mirage® Nouveau is available in 3 different embossing patterns that you can add your own stamping or burnishing to for an exciting 3-dimensional design you can see and feel. It makes a beautiful cover for various retail boxes, book covers, journals, and more.
Mirage Pescara®

Mirage® Pescara takes the colors and simplicity of our Classic line to a higher level. Designed with a subtle Pescara print and a special, soft-touch, coating — an inviting touch and natural finish — Pescara gives you the look, feel, and heat burnishing effects of real leather while complying with our strict ecologically sound production methods. Mirage® Pescara adds exciting visual and tactile appeal to your books, bibles, journals, packaging, and more, without compromising on cost or the environment.
Mirage Vintage®

Mirage® Vintage emulates the weathered appearance of aged leather. With two different textures to choose from and the addition of your own heat-burnished design, Mirage® Vintage can help you create retro or antique-style packaging to capture age-old tales by wrapping it around books, binders, journals, bibles, luxury packaging and more.
Pellaq by Skivertex

Pellaq is a high gloss & scratch resistant simulated leather. It available in bold or subtle reptile patterns and is colorfast and moisture resistant.
Pellaq Iguana

Pellaq Iguana is a Latex-saturated, high gloss, simulated leather cover material that comes in high-end iridescent reptile patterns.

•Colorfast and moisture resistant.
•Offered in enticing visuals, reminiscent of leather in bold or subtle reptile patterns: Lizard, Croco, Mallory, Pinseal, Glean and premium Iguana
•Offers a scratch resistant, high gloss surface
Prestige®

Prestige® combines the luxury of suede and the richness of velvet, with unparalleled quality and consistency. Available in range of classic reds, blues, and browns as well as contemporary pinks, oranges and greens, the Prestige® collection offers the perfect color to meet your design goals. With exquisite foil and blind stamping abilities, decorative graphics can easily be applied to create distinctive, eye-appealing covers for products exclusivity across applications: box wraps, photo mattes, slipcases and hardcover books.
Radiance®

Radiance® is a fashion-forward line with a brilliant, jewel tone, shimmer that radiates from a luminous, color shifting, topcoat. Offered in 9 chic colors, an array of modern textures, and both Plush (soft touch) and Polish (high gloss) finishes, Radiance® glistens with flair. The bold colors radiate through a coating of fine metallic pigments, offering a stunning shimmer effect and a brilliantly polished look to luxury packaging, jewelry boxes, cosmetics, accessories, multi-media, yearbooks, journals, diaries and more.
Rainbow 100#®

Rainbow® 100 is a 100# text weight, dyed-through kraft paper that is perfect for those book and packaging projects that require a little extra strength. Typical publishing applications include book covers, endsheets, and jackets where a heavier stock is desired to enhance quality. Rainbow® 100 is quickly becoming the industry choice for gift bags, and box lining projects as well, and with its ability to be foil stamped, blind stamped, letter press or offset printed, the possibilities are endless!
Rainbow 17

Rainbow® 17 (395gsm) cover material consists of a high-strength substrate with a water-based color coating and protective acrylic top coat on the front, and white clay-coated smooth board back for good dimensional stability. Offered in a traditional selection of colors and embossings, resembling Leather or Linen, Rainbow® 17 is a beautiful yet economical choice for self-supporting books, perfect-bound books, bibles, guides, and more.
Rainbow 3®

A coated dyed-through kraft paper, Rainbow® 3 is today’s leading choice in material for book covers and publishing applications. Rainbow® 3 is our Endleaf with attitude! Designed for higher performance and weighing in at 80# kraft, it provides additional finger-print, moisture, and fade resistance to your projects. Design capabilities include embossing, blind stamping, foil stamping and silkscreening to add feature design elements. Choose Rainbow® 3 for your hardcover books, journals, box wraps, retail packaging, jewelry boxes, and more.
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# (Rainbow 80lb) 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 offers the same selection as RAINBOW® 70, but with the added thickness needed for a wider range of applications and printing capability. 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 Bible Endleaf®

For your nearest-and-dearest books that remain relevant for a lifetime and get many years of everyday use, choose durable Rainbow® LX Bible Endleaf. The flexible composition is specifically engineered with a saturated substrate for extra strength to prevent tears and withstand the rigors of bible manufacturing, as well as a special heat-resistant, water-based acrylic top coat that will withstand high-heat edge gilding.
Rainbow Essex

Essex^™ combines 80^# dyed-through kraft colors with a subtle print and tactile cloth embossing, giving you a rich, linen-like covering material ideal for packaging, hardcover books, journals, slipcases and binders. This material has the same stamping and screen printing capability as natural cloth, but makes a great eco-friendly alternative for those looking for added value in a fully recyclable material.
Rainbow Exposé®

Exposé™ is a dyed-through kraft best known for its rich soft-touch finish that gives great value to designers looking for the luxuriously smooth feel of satin at the competitive price of paper. This fully recyclable material makes a great eco-friendly choice for a wide variety of applications including set-up boxes, slipcases, game boards, bags, albums, boxes, book side panels, CD/multimedia packaging, and more.
Rainbow LX (Rainbow 9)®

Rainbow® LX is the luxury brands’ choice among global designers, specifiers, and manufacturers of high-end projects demanding superior strength and flexibility. Design custom colors and textures for creation of unique branding. Rainbow® LX is offered in a wide range of prefabricated designs in stock.
Rainbow Marble®

When it comes to timeless style, you cannot beat the natural, yet elegant look of Marble. Rich and refined, Rainbow^®Marble distinguishes itself among covering designs through an opulent color palette that ranges from copper to brown, navy to sage and tan to black. Embodying contrasting elements that deliver a unique appearance by combining similar or contrasting tones, this natural material will instantly elevate the image of any book or box displayed among the shelves.
Senzo by Corvon

Senzo by Corvon is a soft yet durable latex-saturated decorative covering material that is offset printable. It has a luxurious matte finish and is offered in a variety of colors, metallics and embossings.
Shadow by Corvon

Shadow by Corvon is a solid color cover material with non-leather embossed finishes featuring a soft-touch matte feel with thermo-reactive surface.
Silktouch Nuba by Skivertex

Solid color or leather printed embossed cover material provides rich appearance and soft-touch feel of nubuck leather.

Soft yet durable latex-saturated decorative covering material
Silktouch Thermo by Skivertex

Silktouch Thermo features the look and exceptionally soft feel of nubuck and plush leathers.
Skivertex

Skivertex is a simulated leather cover material that comes in 20 patterns for a total of 318 offerings. It is also known as Kivar-9.
Skivertex Cambric

Skivertex Cambric is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)

Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Firenze

Skivertex Firenze is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)

Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Kidskin

Skivertex Kidskin is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).

This latex-saturated covering material is available in 318 standard offerings. Skivertex is an industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Sanigal

Skivertex Sanigal is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)

It is a Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Ultra

Skivetex Ultra is a latex saturated, nylon reinforced decorative cover material that comes in 22 colours through 6 embossings.
Skivertex Vellin

Skivertex Vellin is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).

This latex-saturated covering material is available in 318 standard offerings. Skivertex is an industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Vicuana

Skivertex Vicuana is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).

Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Sports Cover

If you’re looking to add an exciting touch to your sports-themed packaging or book project designs, you’ll be a fan of this realistic football-textured and basketball-textured Sports Cover® material. This gripping design is a real crowd-pleaser when applied to books, yearbooks, albums, binders, packaging, and more.
Sports Cover Golf

Just as the dimples on a golf ball increase its Magnus force, adding this signature pattern to your sports and multimedia packaging is sure to give your design a lift! If you’re looking to attract golf aficionados far and wide, drive an ace with Golf Sports Cover®, a textured cover material that achieves one of the world’s most renowned sporting patterns by adding a special embossing and coating to its white saturated substrate base. Choose Golf Sports Cover® for a look that’s not just an art, it’s a science.
Summit by Skivertex

Summit by Skivertex is a durable latex saturated cover material with great visuals. It is a great alternative to expensive cloth.
Tanalin High Strength

Strong, durable substitute for expensive cloth, Tanalin High Strength delivers a colorfast, moisture resistant latex saturated nylon base construction that provides the high tear and high strength you expect from cloth. You get realistic cloth visuals that are easy to decorate using foil stamping, blind stamping or screen printing.
Tanalin Ten

Introducing Tanalin Ten, a versatile coated paper that’s latex saturated, ideal for a myriad of applications including packaging, book covers, photo albums, and menus. Available in an extensive array of colors and finishes, you can opt for solid hues or explore special finishes like Zebu (marble look) and Dull (matte finishes).

Tanalin Ten offers a cost-effective solution for projects where traditional cloth may be too costly. Its leather-like appearance elevates a variety of turned-edge applications, providing a sophisticated touch to your projects.
Ultima ®

Ultima is a cover material that combines value and versatility. Available in a wide range of colors and embossings that resemble various leathers and cloth, this lightweight (average thickness is .0058″ – .0060″) kraft paper incorporates a water-based color coating and standard gloss finish. Finishing options include our new Plush soft-touch and Mattone top coats. Ultima is a great economical choice for box and book wraps, game boards, gift bags, albums, loose-leaf binder liners, and more. Enhance your embossed patterns with custom design options like tipping, which adds an extra shade to increase the perception of contrast and depth.