We use our in-house facilities to print all hard copy music ordered on our website and to serve the print/ship needs of external composers/arrangers such as Wycliffe Gordon and Andrew Boysen.  

Our customers enjoy the following benefits with our Print & Ship Service:

• We professionally print music (imposition, parts, page turns, score binding, etc.) with great quality and do it every day
• Economical pricing
• Can mail music to you or directly to your customer
• Simplify your life – Avoid trips to the copy center, and stop dealing with print counter personnel that don’t know the difference between a quarter note and a quarter keg!
• No more trips to the post office
• Reduce equipment/supplies cost and clutter if doing your own printing – paper, toner, binding, envelopes, packing slips, machines, etc.

What we print for each musical work

• Score
• All parts including any multiples (e.g. 8 copies of Violin I for the section) or alternate parts needed (e.g. Trumpet in B♭ alt. for Trumpet in C, etc.)

Scores

• Color or grayscale covers on white, 80lb card stock.
• Black and white score pages on Tabloid, Legal, Concert, or Letter (depending on score size) white 28lb paper.  From octavo to tabloid and every size in between.
• Saddle-stitched binding for smaller scores. Black spiral coil binding for larger scores.

Parts

• 1-page parts on white 68 lb. letter-size paper
• Multi-page parts on white 28 lb. tabloid and folded/saddle-stitched
• Orchestral page size can be made Concert size (9 x12) upon request

Shipping

• Delivery via USPS with tracking number provided to you
• Orders typically ship within 1 business day from when we receive the complete order information and source PDFs

Packing Slip included with the order

• Your branding or Art of Sound Music Branding
• Your return address or Art of Sound Music

You provide

• PDF of score and parts, ready for imposition/printing in DropBox
• PDF of cover in DropBox
• List retail price

Cost to You

• Based on your submission and needs we will quote you a price that includes paper, printing, binding, covers, packing materials…all materials and labor. There are no setup fees, no handling fees, and no imposition fees.
• We charge you $6 for USPS standard shipping to the US per order.  You can charge your customer whatever you want for shipping.
• For international shipping –  we charge you our cost, which varies order by order…some ideas of cost are here…can be higher or lower  https://artofsoundmusic.com/index.php?main_page=shippinginfo

Initial setup

• After your first payment to us, we will share a DropBox folder with you to add COPIES or your scores, parts, and covers you need us to print.  Each piece should have a unique catalog number as indicated in the file names.
• If you don’t have a cover, we can create one for you for an additional fee.
• We will impose the music as needed
• Your scores/parts should be “print-ready”; we do not adjust or fix the engraving, page turns, etc., though this is available at an extra cost.
• As we are operating a printing service, we don’t charge or collect sales tax, even if the “ship to” address is located in New Jersey, our business location.

Whenever you get a customer hard copy order

• Email info@artofsoundmusic.com with what needs to be printed, the list price, and where to ship it
• Make sure to put a COPY of the music, cover, etc. to be printed is saved in the shared DropBox folder
• We provide one packing slip and can ship to a single address for each order placed with us.
• We print the item(s) ordered
• We put everything in a mailer and typically ship within 1 business day to the specified address
• After the items ships, we’ll email the shipper’s tracking number to you.  If your customer has a question about the package whereabouts, you would be responsible for following up with the shipping carrier and customer.

We look forward to serving your music print/ship needs.

For questions or to get started, email us at info@artofsoundmusic.com.