BePlugged Studio makes hardcover photobooks, diaries and gift boxes. The pictures on your phone are the ones nobody ever sees again — we lay them out, print them and bind them into a book that stays on a shelf instead of in a folder.
Rigid covers and sewn or bound pages, made to be opened again in ten years rather than to survive one evening of being passed around.
You send the photos. We arrange them, place the captions and names, and handle the pictures that came out too dark or too small to use as they are.
You see a proof of every page before anything goes to print. Names, dates and spelling are yours to check, and changes at that stage cost nothing.
Prefer to lay it out yourself? Open the book designer, choose a size, drop your photos onto the pages and send it to us when it looks right. It saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.
The same book, shaped around the occasion. Tell us which one you are marking and we will tell you what usually works for it.
A year, a decade, or a whole life so far. Milestone birthdays where the family has photos scattered across five phones are what these books are best at.
The album your photographer's files deserve, plus the guest photos that never made the official set. Extra copies for parents are ordered at the same time.
A memorial book for the family, and for the people who come to remember. These are usually needed quickly — tell us the date and we will say honestly whether we can meet it.
Anniversaries, reunions, baby showers, farewells and year-end functions. One book for the host, or a short run for everyone who was there.
The gown, the certificate, and the years of work behind them. Popular as a gift from parents, and as a class book for a school or a group finishing together.
Family history, a first year, a trip, a team, a business. If the photos exist and the occasion matters to you, it can be a book.
Hardcover diaries made the same way as the books, with your own cover on the front.
Day or week to a page, printed for the year you need, with your name or your organisation's on the cover.
Lined, plain or dotted pages for people who would rather not have a diary that guilts them about January.
A run of diaries carrying your logo, for staff, clients or delegates. Sensible for year-end gifts, conferences and school leadership groups.
A book on its own is a gift. A book in a box is the one people photograph before they open it.
Your photobook or diary presented in a rigid box made to fit it, so it arrives as something to unwrap rather than something to unwrap the courier bag of.
Put together for a birthday, a wedding party, a graduation or a thank you, with the printed pieces that go alongside the book.
Branded boxes for clients, staff or delegates, in a quantity we agree up front so you are not left with a cupboard of leftovers.
Six steps, and you decide at the fourth one whether it goes to print.
What the book is for, roughly how many photos you have, and the date you need it in your hands. That is enough for us to quote.
WhatsApp, email or a shared folder — whichever you already use. Send the originals rather than screenshots, and we will sort out the rest.
We choose the order, the layout and the crops, and fix what can be fixed in the images — or you do it yourself in the book designer and we work from that.
Every page, before printing. Check the spelling of names especially — once it is bound, a correction means a new book.
Printing, cover, binding and the box if you ordered one. Extra copies are far cheaper ordered now than reprinted later.
Collect from us in Pretoria, or we courier it. For funerals we work to the service date and tell you up front if it is too tight.
Every book is made to order, so there is no single price. Three things decide it, and you control all three.
A bigger book with more pages costs more. We will tell you how many pages your photos actually need before you commit to a number.
The cover material and finishing are where a book moves from good to special. We quote the options rather than assume the expensive one.
The first copy carries the design work. Copies two, three and ten are much cheaper — which is why we ask how many before we print, not after.
Lay it out yourself in the designer, or just tell us the occasion and the date you need it and we will do the rest. Prefer to write it out? Use the contact form or email info@beplugged.co.za.
BePlugged Studio is the printing and design side of Beplugged Tech, run by the same people and reachable on the same number.
