ALBUM CATEGORIES

what is the difference?

Album & Book Feature Comparison

Gallery Album Collection

classic choices + the most options

This is our classic album collection where you will find the most options to create a unique album line for your clients. Outstanding quality, competitive pricing and multiple styling choices make this album line a popular go-to collection. (sizes, cover styles, material choices, paper choices, end sheet choices, personalization) Also pairs best with photo pano books for ordering companion books to match your album.

Packaging: All Gallery Albums are slipped into a fabric envelope and placed in a black paper gift box. A standard album box made of blended leather is available as an upgrade for extra charge.

Salvatore Cincotta Collection

designer luxury + higher level of customization

This collection is for when your clients want a more luxurious designer line that provides a higher level of customization. Here you will find Italian leathers, crushed velvet end sheets, beautiful linens, and synthetic album cover materials. Special album sizes, dimensional ink personalization, branded logo on end sheets, rounded and pleated leather corners, flush metal inlays, and two box styles that can be customized to match your album are among the specialties that make this collection different from the rest.

Packaging: Salvatore Cincotta Collection Albums are slipped into a fabric envelope and placed in a black paper gift box. Optional boxes are offered in this line come in two styles (one piece and two-piece box) offering coordinating fabrics and materials that match album covers, wood side stain colors and magnetic closures.

Economy Albums

value pricing/limited choices

A leather album that maintains its value pricing because of limited choices. Offer this category when you want to provide your clients with an extremely well-priced, classic album that is made with the same quality of all H&H albums. It is constructed of black blended leather, printed on lustre paper, offers black end sheets, imprinted personalization, and comes in three size choices.

Aura Albums

Minimalistic.Clean.Contemporary (COMING SOON)

When you don’t want classic - step out of the ordinary and into a simple and clean album line designed for a contemporary look and feel. This album is all about the minimalistic design style. H&H will provide templates to achieve the look of this statement album. It is offered with a signature photographic cover, linen end sheets, lustre paper and six size choices: 6x9, 8x12, 10x15, 5.5x7, 8x10, and 11x14.

Packaging will include optional slip cover.

BOOK CATEGORIES

The difference between an album and book is the construction. H&H albums are constructed with a book block that have a substrate between the printed pages. Album pages are rigid and are offered in single or double weight thickness. H&H books do not have a substrate core sheet and have flexible pages. H&H offers three types of books:

Photographic Pano Books

H&H Photographic Pano Books are a hybrid between an album and a coffee table book. These books are printed on photographic paper with full pano spreads and a creased center seam. The photographic pages are glued together back-to-back without a core sheet, which provides a flexible page like a press book. However, a variety of cover options such as metal, leathers, faux, and fabrics make this a hybrid between an album and a press book. These features offer aggressive pricing that make photographic pano books a “must have” value for your clients as a starter or middle category offering.

  • Printed on photographic paper
  • Full pano spreads
  • Flexible pages – pages glued back-to-back with no core sheet
  • Variety of book covers available, including metal, leathers, faux and fabric, and photo covers
  • Aggressive pricing

Aura Books

When you want something more contemporary and unique than a press book

H&H Aura books combine the quality of photographic paper with the slim profile of a press book but are designed with full pano spreads. The spreads are bound together, back-to-back without a core sheet, and assembled with your chosen cover style.

Aura Books feature contemporary thin, flexible covers, available in a selection of sleek and sophisticated finishes, including photographic covers, synthetics, faux, and blended leather that seamlessly integrate with your client's images.

The clean, flexible, simple covers and profile of the Aura Books make them a perfect fit for coffee tables, shelves, client portfolios, children, boudoir, seniors, parent and grandparent books.

Add personalized cover wraps for sophisticated style – gorgeous leather wraps or linen wraps with magnetic closure, designed with your own flat ink personalization complete the modern look to make a truly unique keepsake.

  • Printed on photographic paper
  • Full pano spreads
  • Flexible pages – pages glued back-to-back with no core sheet
  • Flexible book cover available in photographic, synthetic, faux and blended leather choices
  • Priced between a press book and a photographic pano book

Press Books

Often referred to as coffee table books, press books are printed on a variety of press papers. Because press paper can be printed on both sides, there is no need for page cores or gluing pages back-to-back. Press books have a slim style and offer photographic book cover selections in glossy or soft velvet touch finishes. Press books are designed as single pages, not full pano spreads.

  • Printed on both sides of press paper
  • Available in magazine style or with layflat pages
  • Flexible pages – no core sheet
  • Single page design – no panos
  • Photographic book cover is wrapped around a rigid board and available in two photographic paper finishes – glossy or velvet touch, or an optional black leatherette
  • These books are also available in a soft cover magazine style version