Custom Journals and Notebooks with Your Logo

Journals are the item people take into a meeting, which makes them one of the few promotional products your logo gets seen with in front of other companies. The range runs from pocket jotters that fit a shirt pocket through junior and large formats suitable for onboarding packs and executive gifts.Three things separate a journal people use from one that stays in a drawer: how it binds, how it opens flat, and whether the paper takes the pen you hand out with it.

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Binding decides whether it lies flat

Spiral and coil bindings open fully flat and fold back on themselves, which is what you want for notes taken standing up at a trade show or on a factory floor. The trade off is that the coil catches in a bag and can be crushed. Side-bound and perfect bound books look more finished and slide into a laptop sleeve cleanly, but cheaper ones will not stay open at page one without being held. Sewn and casebound books sit at the top of the range and behave like a real notebook rather than a giveaway.

Format follows the use

Pocket and mini formats around three by five inches are for phone numbers and quick notes, and they are the cheapest way to put a logo in someone daily carry. Junior formats near five by seven are the usual conference size. Large formats near seven by ten are for people who take real notes in meetings, and they are the only size where a page of writing does not run out mid thought. Buy the size your recipient actually writes in, not the size that gives your logo the most room.

Decoration and what the cover can take

Covers here are decorated by screen print, pad print, full color and inkjet depending on the material. A soft touch or leatherette cover takes a clean one color print and looks restrained, which suits client gifts. Full color works on paperboard and laminated covers and is the right choice when the artwork is photographic or the cover is part of a campaign.

One caution worth stating: a dark cover with a light ink print will show wear at the corners and along the spine within a few months of daily carry. If the book is meant to last a year in a bag, a darker ink on a lighter cover, or a blind deboss where available, ages better than a light print on a dark ground.

Pair it with the right pen

Journals are almost always handed out with a pen, and the pairing matters more than people expect. Gel ink writes beautifully but bleeds through thin paper, so if the book has lightweight sheets, hand out a ballpoint. For desk use rather than carry, see notepads and sticky notes. For dated formats, see calendars, and for plain writing books without a cover treatment see notebooks.