How Long Does a Bulk Custom Coloring Book Order Take?
If you are sourcing a custom amenity for a property, an event, or a corporate gift, the honest answer to "how long does this take?" is the thing that decides whether you can use us at all. So here it is up front.
About two months, on average, from the day we start designing to the day the bulk order arrives.
That number is an average rather than a promise, and the rest of this explains exactly where the time goes — because one stage is controlled entirely by you, and that is the stage that moves the total.
The three stages
Stage one: design to an approved digital sample — about 2 weeks
We design a cover and interior pages, email you the full digital book, and revise it until you are happy with it.
We turn around feedback on a design within 48 hours. Revisions are included, and we do not cap the number of rounds.
This is the only stage whose length is genuinely up for grabs. A client who reviews the first proof, sends one consolidated set of notes, and approves the second version finishes in well under two weeks. A client who wants five rounds takes longer. Neither is wrong — but if you are working to a hard date, this is the stage to protect.
Stage two: physical sample — about 2 weeks
Once you have approved the digital version, we print a single physical copy and ship it to you.
This exists so you are never asked to commit budget to something you have only seen on a screen. Paper, binding, how the line work actually prints — you check all of it in hand before a bulk run happens.
Stage three: printing and shipping the run — about 3 weeks
After you place the bulk order, production and delivery takes roughly three weeks, depending on quantity.
Where the time actually goes
Adding it up: roughly two weeks of design, two weeks for the physical sample, three weeks for production and delivery. Call it two months end to end.
Notice that only the first stage is elastic. The sample and the print run take what they take. So when someone tells us they need books faster than usual, the conversation is almost always about compressing the design stage — being decisive early, consolidating feedback, and having brand assets ready on day one.
What actually causes delays
In our experience the timeline slips for three reasons, and none of them are printing:
- Feedback arriving in pieces. Three separate emails over a week is three revision cycles. One email with everything in it is one.
- Approval sitting with someone who has not seen the project. If a GM, a brand manager, or a marketing director needs to sign off, loop them in at the first proof rather than the third.
- Waiting on assets. A logo and a website is enough for us to start. If you are hunting for a high-resolution file in week two, that is a week gone.
Working to a fixed date
Plenty of orders are tied to something immovable — a season opening, a holiday period, a property launch, a conference.
If you have a date, tell us the date. We will tell you honestly whether it is achievable before you commit to anything, and if it is tight we will say which corners can be cut (fewer revision rounds, skipping straight from digital approval to the run) and which cannot.
We would rather turn down a deadline than miss one.
If you need it faster
Some things genuinely compress:
- Come with assets ready. Logo, brand colours, any photography you want reflected in the artwork.
- Name your decision-maker up front. One person who can approve, or a group that reviews together.
- Consolidate feedback. One thorough round beats four small ones, every time.
- Consider skipping the physical sample. We do not recommend it, and we will push back — but if the date is immovable and you are comfortable approving from the digital proof, it removes about two weeks.
Ready to start?
Send us a quantity and a date. We will come back within one business day with a quote and a realistic timeline — and if we cannot hit your date, we will tell you that instead of finding out together in week six.
Request a bulk quote, or if you are a hotel or resort, see custom coloring books for hotels for how the process works for a property.