Custom Funeral Spiral Bound Jotter Notebook

It gets used. A programme is read once at the service, a hand fan lasts an hour, and both are usually gone within the week. A notebook goes home, into a bag, into a drawer at work, and is still being written in a year later — and the portrait on the cover is seen every single time it is opened. For the same money most families spend on fans, it is the souvenir that keeps the person in front of people instead of in a cupboard.

Send it and we will tell you honestly. Print enlarges whatever it is given, so a picture that looks sharp on a phone can soften badly across a B5 cover — but the same picture is often perfect on an A6. We clean up what you send, and if it will not hold at the size you want, we say so before printing rather than after, and suggest the size it will carry.

More than you think will come. Families consistently under-order, because the count they plan around is the church and not the compound. A hundred is the minimum; two to three hundred is the common order for a burial with a reception after it, and the price per copy falls as the run grows, so the step from 150 to 250 costs far less than it looks.

Say so when you order. Standard production is 7–10 working days and priority is 4–6, and priority exists for exactly this reason — a burial date does not move. Delivery adds 1–3 working days in Lagos and 2–6 to other states, so tell us the service date and we will tell you plainly whether it can be met rather than hoping.

Up to twenty full-colour pages bound in at the front, ahead of the ruled ones: the order of service, a biography, tributes, the appreciation, a photo gallery, or any of them together. After those it is ordinary ruled paper, which is the point — the memorial part is read, and the rest is used.

A5 is the common one. A6 is pocket-sized and the cheapest way to reach a large crowd; B5 is close to a full notebook and suits a smaller, closer list — immediate family, pallbearers, the people who travelled. Many families order A6 in volume for the service and a few B5 hard covers for the family.

Yes — gold foil on the name or the dates, which catches the light against a matte cover and is the finish most families ask for by sight without knowing what it is called. There is a holographic and a fine-grained sparkle sand lamination as well if you want the cover itself to carry the effect.

We design it. Send the portrait, the full name, the dates and whatever wording you want inside, in whatever state they are in — a photograph on a phone and a paragraph in a WhatsApp message is a normal starting point. We lay it out and send a proof, and nothing is printed until you have approved it.

7–10 working days as standard, or 4–6 working days with priority handling, which carries a priority fee. Those are windows rather than fixed dates: on the standard window it can be ready as early as the 7th working day, and the 10th is the longest you would be waiting. We tell you as soon as it is ready rather than holding a finished job back to the end of the window.

Quantity does most of it: 100 works out at ₦1,700 each and 1,000 at ₦1,530 — ₦170 off every one, or ₦170,000 across the larger order. The build is the next thing: A6 Soft-cover Jotter starts at ₦1,700 against ₦6,500 for B5 Hard-cover Jotter. Several questions have an answer that costs nothing and one that does — Matte Lamination costs nothing where Sparkle Sand adds ₦1,200 each, White costs nothing where Black adds ₦1,200 each, 80 Leaves · 160 Pages costs nothing where 120 Leaves · 240 Pages adds ₦560 each and 80gsm Bond Paper costs nothing where 100gsm Bond Paper adds ₦160 each. None of those is a lesser product; they are the standard build. And the add-ons really are extra — Spot Gloss, Foil Stamped Logo, Matte PP Waterproof Cover Sheet and the rest are each priced on top, so leaving off the ones the job does not need is the quickest saving on the page.

Matte and super gloss are both included: matte does not look laminated at all — no shine, so it reads as plain uncoated stock, and you only know the film is there by the feel and by water sitting on it rather than soaking in, super gloss is the mirror finish: a high shine that throws the light back, colours brighter and more vivid, and the film resists scratches, dirt and damp. Holographic adds ₦750 to ₦2,000 depending on the size — a rainbow shift across the whole surface that moves as it is turned. Sparkle Sand adds ₦1,200 to ₦3,000 depending on the size. It is a fine sand grain that catches the light like a silver chain, it is the heaviest of the films so it stiffens the stock and reads a weight thicker than it is, and it is scratch resistant — something handled every day still looks new months later. The one thing to know about Sparkle Sand is that it needs a colour under it. On a white background there is nothing for the grain to catch and the effect is largely wasted; on deep, solid colours it comes alive, and on black it is the best it ever looks. We will say so before printing if the artwork is mostly white.