Successful jacket meetings are what all designers hope for. Accurate color proofing, foils, embossing and varnish effects are important to the production and eventual marketing of books today. Designers need a vehicle for communicating their visual ideas to an author. This is where A to A steps in and works with the designer to bring the vision from screen to paper, and in most cases, overnight as well.

Jackets can combine 4-color process with spot colors, including custom inks such as liquid foils, fluorescents, metallics, night glow, pearlescents, thermochromic, and photochromic inks.

A to A has created a library of foils for the publishing industry. In the rare instance we do not have the foil you require, we can either offer a substitute, or have it delivered to our office, usually the next day. We can simulate both gloss and matte spot varnishes on your proofs, if required, again affording the client a unique opportunity.


Our relationships with various paper manufacturers give us access to virtually any paper specified.

For those clients who prefer overlays of their spot colors and varnish plates, we can produce acetate overlays of each plate registered to your proofs, giving you additional latitude in the development of various backgrounds.

Embossing and debossing are done in-house. Our book jackets can be embossed or debossed, die-cut, scored, wrapped and folded.

We create each project using inks, applied in the same rotation as the actual printing, the same line screen, and in most cases, on the same substrate as the final product. Our primary goal is accurate color.