Newspaper Club

Newspaper Club prints real newspapers on newsprint in four formats, from a single copy to thousands, and ships them from the UK to customers around the world. It is a printer rather than a design studio: you upload a finished PDF, and the company prints, packs and delivers it. Its customers are creative people and brands, couples making wedding newspapers, zine makers, and anyone who wants the look and feel of a newspaper without buying a press run of tens of thousands.

Who the company is

The About page tells the story. It started in 2009, when three friends in London wanted to turn their favorite pieces of online writing into a newspaper and found that the newspaper industry "wasn't set up for small orders or nontraditional publishers." The idea won a Designs of the Year Award and became the company's mission of making it easier for everyone to print their own newspaper. The page says the company has printed "more than 30 million newspapers for creative people and brands all over the world."

Today Newspaper Club is run by a team of 10, mostly in Glasgow, Scotland, and the About page says its customer service team are all graduates of Glasgow School of Art. The company describes itself as a living wage employer. Along the way it built PaperLater, a personal newspaper maker that turned an online reading list into a print-on-demand newspaper, and worked with the Guardian on its Contributoria and Long Good Read projects using ARTHR, its free layout software, which has since been retired.

Printing: digital and web-offset

"All newspapers are printed on our own digital and web-offset newspaper printing presses," the About page says, and the delivery page adds that the newspapers are printed at various locations in the UK. The two methods cover different order sizes. The FAQ describes digital printing as the way to print small quantities quickly, "ideal for printing 1-1,000 copies," while traditional printing uses "an industrial-size web-offset printing press to print hundreds or thousands of copies of one newspaper at once." In September 2018 the company invested in a new digital newspaper printer, which it says produces high quality printing at high speed with minimum waste.

Four formats

The home page lists the sizes with their page ranges and paper choices:

• Broadsheet, 350 mm × 500 mm or 380 mm × 578 mm, 2-40 pages, 5 paper options. "Made to be seen."
• Tabloid, 289 mm × 380 mm, 4-64 pages, 5 paper options. "The classic newspaper size. Our most popular product."
• Midi, 220 mm × 310 mm, 16-64 pages, 2 paper options, pitched as "the sweet spot between a magazine and a newspaper."
• Mini, 170 mm × 250 mm, 16-64 pages, 4 paper options, "a newspaper with zine spirit."

The headline promise is "No minimum order. Print from 1 copy to thousands on any of our sizes." The FAQ says all standard newspaper products are printed on real newsprint, with other paper types available for some sizes. The sample pages name the stocks: 45gsm salmon, 52gsm, 55gsm, 70gsm and 80gsm, including recycled and bright grades.

From design to order

Newspaper Club does not design newspapers. The FAQ is direct about it: the company only prints them. What it offers instead is a set of free templates. According to its wedding newspaper guide, blank templates for InDesign, Scribus and Canva are set up to the correct size with margins for tabloids and broadsheets or bleed for minis, and themed Canva templates are available for the tabloid size. Artwork guidelines with export guides for InDesign and Scribus sit alongside them.

To order, you create an account and upload a PDF. An automatic PDF checker flags anything likely to cause printing problems, such as low-resolution images or content in the margins. The guide warns that Canva exports can occasionally change a layout and that the company prints exactly the PDF you upload, so the file needs checking before you order. For a test copy, digitally printed orders can simply be printed as a single copy; for a bigger order, the guide says to get in touch about a free or discounted test copy.

Samples

There are two free sample packs, and the free-sample page says delivery is free anywhere. The digitally printed pack, for printing 1-1,000 newspapers, holds six newspapers across broadsheet, tabloid, midi and mini on 45gsm salmon, 55gsm and 80gsm paper, plus a wedding-themed tabloid. The traditionally printed pack, for 500-10,000+ copies, holds seven newspapers in broadsheet, tabloid and mini on 45gsm salmon, 52gsm, 55gsm, 70gsm and 80gsm. Samples come by local post and take around one week in the UK and 2-3 weeks overseas; they are not trackable, and courier delivery is available at extra cost.

Pricing and delivery

The price list is an interactive page rather than a printed table, and the FAQ answers "How much will it cost?" with "See our prices or contact us for a quote." Two things about the price structure are stated plainly on the delivery page. First, "The delivery cost to one address is included in the prices on our website." Second, for the US, prices include DDP shipping, so the receiver pays no duties or taxes. Gift vouchers are available for any amount.

All orders ship from the UK. The company ships to Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa. Orders should arrive in 1-7 working days in the UK, and the home page gives "2-8 working days" door to door worldwide; the delivery page says 55gsm digital tabloids generally have the fastest turnaround and that dates cannot be guaranteed. All orders except UK standard post and European road deliveries are sent express, and there is no paid expedited option, though the company invites you to get in touch if you are in a hurry.

Packing scales with the order: single copies go in a hard-backed envelope by courier or, for one-copy digital tabloids in the UK, by Royal Mail; larger orders go in boxes by courier, tracked through DPD; orders over roughly 90kg travel on a pallet to the curb. Splitting an order across several addresses is possible in some cases, usually for an extra charge.

EU buyers pay extra on import. The delivery page says "All orders shipping to the EU incur extra fees on import," made up of VAT at the local rate plus a customs clearance fee that "is a minimum of €20 and increases with the value of the order," collected by DHL before delivery.

Paper and the environment

The About page says "All of our paper types are FSC-certified and we offer recycled options for both digital and traditional printing," and that in 2025 solar panels at its press generated 107,250 kWh of electricity, which it says was enough to print 67% of its orders. The sample page calls its newspapers fully recyclable. Those are the company's own statements.

Who it suits

Newspaper Club suits anyone whose product is a newspaper: artists and photographers making a portfolio or zine on newsprint, brands printing a catalog or promotional paper, event organizers, and couples producing wedding invitations, orders of service or keepsakes. The single-copy minimum, the free templates and the free sample packs make a first order low risk, and the choice between digital and web-offset carries a project from one proof to a run of thousands. Support is by email at support@newspaperclub.com, and the company says it is rated "Excellent" on Trustpilot.

It is a narrower fit for a seller who wants a store integration or other product types. The company prints newspapers and nothing else, you supply the finished design, and every order starts with an uploaded PDF. EU customers should budget for the import VAT and clearance fee on top of the price.