Submitting your work

You may deliver your work to us

• preferably as an email attachment (max. 10 Mt)
• as a hard copy.

We do not accept print jobs on USB drives because of viruses and other problems they might cause. If the file is too large for email, you can send your work via an FTP server. Ask us for the address and login information.

How to proceed

1. Ask for a quotation and set a deadline for the order.
2. Use the CMYK Fogra 39 (CMYK) colour profile and include the minimum of 3 mm bleeds in your document.
3. Convert the file to PDF.
4. Send your order as an email attachment to paino (at) ulapland.fi.

 

Note! The minimum order is 20 copies.

You can also always ask for advice by email or phone +358 40 484 4327 .

Proofread your work

Please read your thesis carefully before submitting it to be printed; check the title page, abstract, page numbering, revisions – did you forget anything?

Familiarise yourself with the abstract template and guidelines on the LUC library webpages. Check that your title page and abstract only feature the year of submission, as opposed to the master's thesis published before 2015, which also indicate the semester.

Your faculty will guide you on the required layout, margins and fonts of the thesis, as well as all matters related to its content. Ask your supervisor for more information. When adding page numbers, please take into account that we only print on one side (no mirrored numbering).

Mark down colour pages

Please let us know in your job request if your thesis has colour pages. Note the price of colour pages (see the bottom of this page).

List the pages that you wish to be printed in colour. If you do not do this, our machine will count the number of colour pages automatically and we will charge you accordingly. Please give us the page numbers of the PDF, not those allocated within your written text.

If there is no mention of colour pages in your job request, we will print the entire thesis in black and white.

Hard or soft binding? 

As a rule, master’s theses have a soft binding, their covers comply with the university standard, and they have the required information extracted from the abstract. If you wish to design you own covers, send us a file that is ready to print.

If you wish, you may select hard binding for your thesis. When ordering, indicate if you want hard binding and if you want black or burgundy binding (soft binding always comes in the colour of your faculty). Should you not specify the colour of the hard binding, it will be made black. The cover will have gold lettering and it has a standard text that cannot be modified. The front cover contains the university logo and the spine shows the author’s name and the year of the thesis.

No text or logos can be printed on the spine of theses with less than 55 pages/sheets. This applies to both soft and hard covers.

Number of copies

As of 1 August 2020, master’s and licentiate theses have been archived and published electronically, and no hard archive copies have been printed. Theses are also graded and processed electronically. You are to personally deliver your thesis to the faculty for grading. If you wish, you may still have hard copies printed of your thesis at your own cost.

NOTE! The library does not accept hard copies of master's theses anymore, but you need to provide them a digital copy. You can find instructions on how to do this on the library webpages.

Printing schedule

The delivery time regarding your own copies is roughly one working week. Please note that the delivery time is longer if your thesis deviates from the norm. If the thesis needs corrections and it has already been printed, we will have to charge you extra for the job.

Paper types and special theses

We use ordinary 80g A4 copy paper for the pages and LumiSilk 250g for the covers of theses. If your thesis requires specialty papers, you need to pay the price difference between ordinary paper and the specialty paper.

LumiForte 100g specialty papers add €0,062 / sheet (including VAT) to the total cost of the print job.

Special theses (other than standard size) have longer delivery times than standard theses.

Placing an order

Convert your print-ready work to PDF format and make sure that it is the right size (210 x 297 mm, A4). Send your thesis as an email attachment (max. 10Mt) to gradut.painoon (at) ulapland.fi. Give us your contact details, including your phone number and invoicing and delivery address. You will receive a notification after we have received your order.

We do not accept print jobs on USB drives because of viruses and other problems they might cause. If the file is too large for email, you can submit it via a proxy server (Funet FileSender, WeTransfer, etc.).

Payment methods and delivery

You can pay by

• debit or credit card (also VisaElectron)
• invoice (sent afterward).
  

You can pay with a card in the university library, which is where you also collect the personal copies that you purchase with your card (to see the opening hours, go to https://luc.finna.fi). Please note that theses are kept in the library for one month. If you have not collected your copies within a month, they are mailed to you and you are charged for it with extra delivery and invoicing expenses added to the bill.

We send you email when your thesis is ready.

If you wish to pay by invoice (additional fee included), indicate in your job request whether you will collect your copies at the Printing Centre or whether you want us to mail them to you. If there is no reference to the delivery method, we will mail you the copies and add delivery costs (€12.40) to the invoice. We do not mail theses abroad. Our system always needs a mailing address for invoicing.

For further information, call +358 40 484 4329.

Prices for master's theses

The prices include 25,5% VAT.

Printing

• b&w pages €0.075 / page
• colour pages €0.740 / page
• additional €0.063 / sheet for specialty papers
  
  

Binding

• soft cover €4.216 / copy
• hard cover (including gold foil lettering) €31.375 / copy
  

Delivery costs €13.805
Invoicing fee €6.275

The prices have been rounded to the nearest cent, except for the prices of b&w pages, colour pages and soft covers, which have been rounded to the nearest tenth of a cent. Our invoicing software uses more precise values, which is why the total sum in your invoice may differ slightly from the costs calculated from prices given here.