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Online Store FAQs
Please see our Shipping & Returns page for details.
Our online store does not currently calculate shipping for addresses outside of the USA. If you have plenty of time and don’t mind international shipping costs, please contact us for a custom shipping quote.
The following details are specifically for our “Passport Favors” which are available on our online shopping cart here: Custom Paper Works Passport Favors.
You can build your own sample to visualize the page count this way:
Take 7 sheets of scrap paper. Or 7 sticky notes. Whatever you have around.
Stack them up. Then fold the whole stack in half at the same time.
The outside sheet would be the cover. Ours is made of heavy cardstock in a gorgeous color as shown in the product photos. The inside front and back covers will be the same color as the outside front and back covers. Printers count these as 4 “pages”: front cover (1), inside front cover (2), inside back cover (3), and outside back cover (4).
The remaining pages that are now inside are the inside passport pages. Ours are made of a nice quality, bright white, uncoated/matte paper that’s a little heavier than most standard home printer or copier paper.
Now count those inside pages the same way that book pages are numbered. You should reach a count of 24.
The total page count including covers is now 28. This is also known as a “28-page booklet”, or some printers refer to it as a “24+4 book” and occasionally it would be referred to as a “14 printer spreads” or a “7-sheet” book. They all mean the same thing once assembled in booklet form.
For orders of 200 or more, and if you have at least 6 weeks lead time, we can provide a quote for fully custom-made passports. Pricing is AT LEAST DOUBLE compared to what you see in our online shop based on 200 or more, because of the addition of custom design time and separate print run. Provide tons of details about what you are have in mind when requesting a quote here.
The pre-made Passport Favors are quite perfect for most events just as they are, though!
If you don’t have the budget for custom passports, consider getting a custom rubber stamp to stamp the first page of the favor book with. Or printing your own photo stickers for the inside front covers. Or tie a ribbon around the covers with a hand-written or stamped tag with guest names.
Combo Packs are SOLD ONLY AS SHOWN with a variety of colors.
You will receive the approximate color balance shown in the photos – but the counts of each exact color may not be the same from one pack to another.
For example, if the photo for a color pack shows 3 teal, 3 light blue, 2 white, and 2 dark blue – some packs may have exactly that. But some may have 2 teal, 2 light blue, 3 white, and 3 dark blue.
So the Combo Packs are best for when you want an assortment of colors in general – but aren’t tied to exact quantities of each shade. They make great colorful displays at events or give kids some options to pick from. But we don’t recommend them if you are trying to itemize out specific colors for specific people or different display locations.
You can always order a variety of different solid color packs. (Order 2 packs of navy blue + 2 packs of a light blue + 2 packs of red, etc… then mix them up when you receive them.) Or consider sticking with just traditional navy blue passports – these work great with lots of color schemes simply because it closely resembles the real thing.
NO TWO COMBO PACKS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME as far as the exact papers or number of each color within the packs. The Combo Packs are meant to include a fun variety of shades so that your guests, students, or attendees can pick their favorites for an even more personal keepsake or favor.
The photos for each Combo Pack do show the range of general colors you may receive. But the quantity of any particular color in the packs may vary.
You will receive the approximate color balance shown in the photos – but the counts of each exact color may not be the same from one pack to another.
For example, if the photo for a color pack shows 3 teal, 3 light blue, 2 white, and 2 dark blue – some packs may have exactly that. But some may have 2 teal, 2 light blue, 3 white, and 3 dark blue.
When our Limited-Edition Combo Packs are gone, they are GONE for good.
Consider picking a few coordinating colors from the regular packs to supplement your Combo Pack, or add a traditional navy blue passport for an authentic-looking option to mix in.
You didn’t see OURS, which are made in the USA by a small, independently-owned business in Michigan.
We use premium cardstock covers, heavier inside pages, and have sized our Passport books to match real passports (surprisingly, this costs more than making them some other random size).
Most of the similar products seen on the mass sales websites are imported, use thinner papers, and are not the same size as a real passport. Many also don’t have authentic-looking rounded corners, and are available in limited colors (or just 1).
Please consider shopping small, family owned, and made in the USA.
Custom Order FAQs
Short answer:
Request a quote by filling out the form on the price request page. We’ll guide you from there.
Long answer:
Read the full order & design process HERE.
We don’t have a minimum quantity requirement for custom orders, so you can order the exact quantity you need. But pricing generally STARTS at $1000 per custom order regardless of the quantity ordered.
This is because there are several fixed set-up processes needed to make these specialty print items – and the time needed is the same for 1 custom passport, or for 5,000.
So lower quantity orders end up with a higher cost-per-piece, just like most printed products.
For example, the total cost for an order of 100 custom passports is generally pretty close to an order of 150 or 200. So ask about various quantities or let us know your ideas – we are happy to suggest ways to be more cost-effective or get longer use out of your print run so you can reduce the per-item-costs.
No matter the quantity, every order receives lots of time, handling, and care. We use only high-quality papers and printing, and communicate with clients on an individual level as the custom project requires.
YES!
While blue is the most popular passport cover color because it is authentic to many countries’ passport color, you can pick a passport cover color that matches your business branding or coordinates with your event color scheme.
For our “Luxe Passports,” vinyl-like covers are available in blue, red, burgundy, black, white, and green.
Luxe Cardstock covers are available in HUNDREDS of colors like pink, aqua or turquoise, orange, purple, yellow, and more – and also come in a variety of finishes, textures, even shimmer or glitter papers!
Any “Luxe Passport” comes with a metallic foil stamped imprint on the front cover. Pick from standard gold or silver, or ask about unique foils like rose gold, holographic, or antiqued foil finishes.
For our “Basic Passports,” we start with standard white cardstock with a matte, glossy, or shimmer finish, and the cover design is printed in full color, in any number of colors you need, even with photographic-like designs. You can then optionally add metallic foil imprint on top of full-color Basic Passport covers.
All of our pricing includes standard full-color printing on the interior pages of your passport book.
If you prefer black ink only, that’s fine – but the pricing is the same UNLESS you have a quantity over 2500, or a page count over 40. Even then, the cost difference is pretty small, so you won’t be saving much by opting for black and white printing.
Our “Basic Passports” use white cardstock covers and include standard, full-color, flat ink printing.
A Gold, Silver, or other Metallic Foil imprint on the front cover is completely OPTIONAL and is an additional cost.
Our “Luxe Passports” use vinyl-like covers OR colorful cardstock covers which only work with and REQUIRE a gold, silver, or metallic foil imprint.
In this case, the cost of ONE gold, silver, or metallic foil imprint is already included in the cost.
The passport booklets we create for trade shows, schools and corporate or church events most frequently have 12 – 36 pages, but simpler passport fold-over cards are available, as are page counts up to 50 or more.
To make this easier by eliminating typical printer-speak that tends to confuse everyone, we use the following page count system:
First, you will always have the covers:
1 Outside Front Cover
1 Inside Front Cover
1 Inside Back Cover
1 Outside Back Cover
In total, that makes 4 cover “pages”.
If you are using a vinyl-like OR colored cardstock cover, the Inside Front Cover and Inside Back Cover will be blank.
If you are using a white cardstock cover, the Inside Front Cover and Inside Back Cover can be printed just like a regular page inside the passport.
After that, pages are added in sets of 4.
Some printers will refer to 1 set of 4 pages as a “sheet” or “folded sheet”, or maybe “2 spreads”.
But we find it easiest to count pages as individual pages, just like a book or magazine is numbered when you read it.
So you can have:
4 Cover + 4 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 8 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 12 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 16 Inside Pages
4 Cover +20 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 24 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 28 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 32 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 36 Inside Pages
4 Cover + 40 Inside Pages
etc, etc, etc…
CLICK HERE for more detailed instructions on calculating pages.
We will take your provided design, and create a digital print proof for you to review. This will allow you to make sure that all the elements are in the print file in the correct place.
Once you approve this digital proof, they go straight into production, and the whole order will ship to you at one time.
UPS or FedEx Ground shipping will be included in your quote for custom-printed orders.
Pricing for faster shipping or international orders will be provided separately on request and depends on the quantity ordered and shipping location.
If you are ordering our pre-made Passport Favor Notebooks, shipping depends on the order total and will be shown at checkout.
CUSTOM passport booklets are printed and assembled from scratch for each order. They aren’t pre-made, and involve at least 3 separate machine setups to complete. So when possible, please allow about 4-6 weeks, which will allow you to carefully review proofs prior to printing, and a nice cushion for shipping. Faster turnaround is sometimes available depending on quantity and the print options you select, just ask.
The Passport Favor Books available in our online shop are premade and ready to ship, but cannot be customized or personalized. They leave our location within 3 days of placing an order.
YES. Orders can be shipped just about anywhere.
Due to having poor experiences with international shipping through the postal services, we prefer to use highly trackable shipping methods which tend to cost more, such as FedEx, UPS, or DHL.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING is billed separately just prior to shipping at actual cost. Expect a range of $100-$200 USD and transit time of 7 to 14 business days.
INTERNATIONAL TAXES/DUTIES/VAT/BROKERAGE FEES are sometimes due prior to delivery of the package. Custom Paper Works does not collect or provide estimates of these taxes. They are charged separately, by individual Customs offices, by their rules (not ours), and we are not able to offer much support or service for packages that are waiting in Customs, or once they are out of our hands.
The short answer is NO, we no longer make them.
We now specialize in larger quantity orders of custom passports for school, business, and event use.
However if you need a very large quantity of 500 or more passport invitation suites, please reach out.
Yes and No.
We make custom passports for all sorts of uses, products, and events. We love to see the creative ideas our clients come up with!
That being said, we will NOT print slanderous material, or anything promoting direct and intentional violence toward a specific person or group, or anything promoting illegal or law-breaking content.
Our novelty custom passports are not intended to pass as a real legal document for identification purposes, nor are they trying to. Though you may at very quick glance notice a resemblance, they are structurally, materially, and content-wise very different, are printed differently, and we will NOT make identical copies of any real passport pages.
Sorry to say, it’s highly unlikely that we can “just print the AI concept designs” and get a good result.
Converting the AI files to a generic PDF, scaling them up to a higher resolution, or pasting them into Canva does NOT solve the problems either.
We could write a book about all the reasons AI has been failing clients who started an AI design before consulting us. It’s just NOT SKILLED ENOUGH to fully supply what is needed for professionally-printed, multi-page documents like custom passports.
For now, here’s our recommendation:
- Consult us before starting a passport design with AI. Once an order is booked with a deposit, we can provide detailed specifications, recommendations, ideas, and file reviews before printing. A deposit is required before this because we review and respond in detail about what is needed to get a professional-looking print based on your actual ideas and files, and this takes a good amount of time.
- Minimally, start with the correct page size. For our standard passports, this is 3.5″ x 5″. But you’ll also need to add print bleed and respect some page margin requirements as well.
- Upload your highest-quality logos and photos into AI so it’s starting with crisp, clear reference files.
- Spell-check and finalize any text FIRST, because it’s more difficult to fix typos after AI has spit out a flattened, pixel-based file.
- Did I mention consult us (our any printer) FIRST. We cannot/do not like to “just hit print” because we care. It’s often as time-consuming and costly to edit or rebuild an AI file as it would have been to hire a designer from the beginning, especially for multi-page files that need to be consistent from one page to the next.
- Better option than trying to get something made entirely with AI: Get individual elements from AI, then bring them into Adobe or Canva for final placement in layers. Add text natively in Adobe or Canva so that adjustments can be made quickly and easily. Adding a few words to a sentence often results in needing to move other elements on the page. That can’t be done quickly or easily from a flattened AI image of a page design.
- Please CONSULT US FIRST and get the page specs and templates from us after booking an order. We get better results and can help you more even via a DIY Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Canva file.
By the way …
made in the usa.
Located in Michigan, we print our products locally in the Midwest. We provide the same personal customer service whether you are a small business or a large conference or event organizer.