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Note Pads Printing
in Encino, Same Day
Get your files to us by 10 AM and your custom notepads are glued, cut and ready for pickup by 3:30 PM, most days.
One price and a real pickup time. No account, no card.
Rather talk? Call 818-380-0380 anytime. It rings our cell, not a machine.
- Same-day printingFiles in by 10 AM, most jobs ready by 3:30 PM
- Valley pickup and deliveryAcross the San Fernando Valley
- Family owned since 1979Same shop, same block of Ventura Blvd
- File checkWe look at the file before it runs
Custom Notepads
Notepads padded and cut the same afternoon
Custom notepads are one of the steadier orders that come through our door on Ventura Blvd, and most of them belong to somebody who needs a pad that matches their letterhead or their branding, not a blank pad from a big box store. Law offices order intake pads with numbered lines. Real estate agents order to-do pads with their headshot and phone number printed at the top. Contractors order estimate pads they can tear off on a job site in Woodland Hills or Tarzana. We print the sheets on our digital press, then pad and cut them in house, so nothing leaves the building until it is finished.
Most custom notepads we run are 4.25 by 5.5 or 5.5 by 8.5, printed on a lighter text weight stock so the glued edge tears clean, twenty five or fifty sheets to a pad with a chipboard backer underneath. We can run a heavier stock if you want the pad to hold its shape in a bag or a truck console, and we will tell you honestly if a stock you are asking for is going to feel flimsy once it is padded thin. There is no minimum order, so a run of ten pads for one office costs the same attention as a run of two hundred.
The file mistakes we catch most on notepad orders are missing bleed around the edge and text set too close to where the pad will be cut and glued. Send us a PDF if you have one, and if all you have is a Word document or a Canva export, we will open it, check it and send back a proof before anything runs. That proof step is the same on every job, notepad or not, because a padded stack of a hundred sheets is expensive to redo if a line of text got trimmed off.
Bigger runs, over a few hundred pads, can run past that window into the next morning, and we will say so up front before you commit to a deadline. Once your file is on record, reordering a notepad you have used before is one email or text, no need to resend the artwork or sit through another proof round.

Options
Notepad specs
| Common sizes | 4.25 x 5.5 in, 5.5 x 8.5 in, custom on request |
|---|---|
| Stock | 70 lb text standard, 80 lb text for a firmer sheet |
| Sheets per pad | 25 or 50, glued top edge with chipboard backer |
| Files accepted | PDF, AI, INDD, PSD, JPG, Word, Canva export |
| Turnaround | Same day if files are in by 10 AM |
| Minimum order | None |

Off our press
Note Pads we printed for Valley businesses



Ordering notepads
What to send us and what we ask back
If you already have a notepad design, send the file and we will check margins, bleed and the tear edge before anything prints. If you do not have a design, our in house graphic design team can build one from your logo and your business card, usually within the same visit if the job is simple. Either way you get a PDF proof to look at on your phone or in your email before we run a single sheet, and nothing goes to press until you approve it.
Most notepad customers in the Valley are repeat customers, because a pad gets used up and reordered every few months. We keep your file on record so a reorder is a phone call, an email or a text with the quantity you want, no need to walk in or resend anything. That matters for a real estate agent in Studio City handing out to do pads at open houses, or a contractor in Woodland Hills who goes through fifty estimate pads a season and does not want to rebuild the artwork every time.
We do not require an account or a card on file to get a quote, and there is no minimum, so a first order can be five pads to see the stock and the padding quality before you commit to more. We deliver anywhere in the Valley, including Encino, Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills, get pickup or delivery on the afternoon van that leaves around 2 PM. Smaller orders are ready for pickup at the counter on Ventura Blvd, with free parking right in front and a shop that has been on this same block since 1979.

Common notepad mistakes
What goes wrong with custom notepad printing
Custom notepads are glued along one edge, and the most common mistake is a design with a logo or header positioned too close to that glued edge, which gets partially covered once the pad is bound and unusable once a few sheets have been torn off. We check the glue edge placement against the artwork before printing, since a template built for a flat single sheet does not automatically account for the binding. The second issue is paper weight, since a notepad printed on stock too thin curls at the glued edge and tears unevenly when a sheet is pulled off, which is a common problem with templates downloaded from generic online tools.
We run notepads on a weight that holds together cleanly through the full pad, not just the first few sheets, and mention it if a customer's file assumes something lighter. Real estate agents, contractors and small offices across Encino, Sherman Oaks and Van Nuys order branded notepads most often as a small giveaway item alongside business cards, and because the format is simple, a reorder with a new phone number or a color update is usually ready the same day, files in by 10, printed, cut and glued into finished pads by 3:30.

Also printed here
Everything else that runs on the same press

Same-day pickup in Encino, and we deliver to Burbank, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, Woodland Hills, Studio City, Encino and Tarzana. Delivery is charged with the job.
Before you send
The five things people ask us

Most pads we print run 25 or 50 sheets, glued along the top edge with a chipboard backer so the pad holds together in a bag or a drawer. We can do other counts on request.
Yes. Send both files, or send one and let our in house design team build the other to match your logo, fonts and colors so the set looks like one job, not two.
A print ready PDF is best. We also take AI, INDD, PSD, JPG, Word and Canva export files, and we will send a PDF proof either way before anything prints.
No minimum. We have printed as few as five pads for a first time customer who wanted to check the stock and the padding before ordering more.
We pick up and deliver anywhere in the San Fernando Valley, including Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana and Woodland Hills, on the afternoon van.
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Notepads padded and ready by 3:30 PM
Get your files to us by 10 AM and your custom notepads are glued, cut and ready for pickup by 3:30 PM, most days.
The Printing House, 16938 Ventura Blvd, Encino, CA 91316
818-380-0380 · [email protected]
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