Letterheads

What is a letterhead?

A letterhead is a sheet of company stationery printed at the top, and sometimes along the sides, with your logo, business name, address, and contact details, leaving the body blank for correspondence. At 4OVER4 standard letterheads print at 8.5 by 11 inch on 5 papers, in black or full color on one or both sides, with the paper, ink, and finishing all set in the live configurator.

Think of it as your brand showing up before you say a word. A printed letterhead makes routine paper feel official and keeps your look consistent from an invoice to a cover letter. If your correspondence has a specialty audience, the Law Firm Letterhead and Church Letterhead carry the same build tuned for those settings, and the standard letterhead sits right beside them as the everyday workhorse.

What paper stocks and ink colors can you choose?

4OVER4 offers 5 papers for standard letterheads: 70# uncoated text, 24# Royal Laid in Bright White, Natural White, and Gray, and 28# Royal Linen Bright White. Ink prints in four setups: black on the front with a blank back, black on both sides, full color on the front, and a fourth setup that carries color onto the back.

A letterhead should feel like the company behind it. The 70# uncoated text is the clean everyday choice that takes a pen and an office printer well. The three 24# Royal Laid stocks add a subtle laid texture you can feel, in Bright White, a warmer Natural White, and a soft Gray. The 28# Royal Linen Bright White brings a crisp linen weave for the most formal letters. On ink, you run black on the front only, black on both sides, full color on the front, or full color that also covers the back, so a one-color memo and a fully branded letter both come off the same press. All 5 papers, both back options, and every ink setup are grouped below exactly the way the live configurator presents them, so you know what you can change before you change it.

Here are a few easy ways to make a letterhead pull its weight.

Pick a paper that feels like more

Weight and texture do a lot of the talking. The uncoated 70# text keeps things clean and economical, while a 24# Royal Laid or the 28# Royal Linen gives the sheet a felt-marked or woven finish that signals a serious sender the moment it is picked up. If your correspondence calls for real shine, the Foil Letterheads add metallic foil to the same letter format.

Design it without a designer

You do not need a design background to make a letterhead look sharp. Start from a professionally built layout in our letterhead design templates, then change the colors, copy, and logo in the online editor in minutes. A good header sets the margin for the whole page, so getting the top right is most of the work.

Already have your artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank letterhead template is built at the real 8.5 by 11 inch trim with the bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your header never crowds the edge. Grab the blank, drop your art in, and upload.

How much do custom letterheads cost?

Standard letterheads start at $99.95 for 50, and the per-sheet price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 100,000, so a cheap letterhead really comes down to how big a run you order. As reference points, 800 sheets run $163.67 and 7,000 run $500.87, and a full 100,000 run lands at $4,625.27, which works out to under 5 cents a sheet. So how many do you actually need? Drag the slider below to set your count and watch both the order total and the true per-sheet cost update live, and find the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

What finishing options come with letterheads?

4OVER4 letterheads can be folded with a half fold or trifold, perforated for a tear-off section, and three-hole punched with a 1/4 inch or 5/16 inch hole for binders. You can also bundle the order into stacks and add matching blank second sheets at half or a full one-to-one ratio, all as options in the configurator.

Finishing is where a plain sheet turns into a working document. A half fold or trifold gets a letter ready to slip straight into an envelope. Perforation adds a clean tear-off line for a reply slip or a payment stub. A three-hole punch drops the pages straight into a binder. Bundling wraps the order into tidy stacks for a front desk, and adding blank second sheets in a matching paper keeps a multi-page letter consistent from the first page to the last. You turn on only what the job needs.

How do proofing and turnaround work?

4OVER4 offers three proofing paths for letterheads: straight to production, a free online proof, or a next-day hardcopy proof. Standard turnaround is 5 business days, with 4-day, 3-day, 2-day, next-day, and same-day rush available. Order by the same-day cutoff and the job ships that afternoon from the New York City plant.

You decide how much checking you want before the press runs. Go straight to production when your file is final, take a free online proof to confirm the layout on screen, or order a next-day hardcopy proof to hold the real paper first. When a deadline moves up, each faster speed buys back time for a set amount on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. 99.8% of 4OVER4 orders arrive on time and 82% ship early, so you are not gambling on the date.

How do letterheads compare to the rest of the range?

Standard letterheads are the everyday pick, but they are not your only move. If you are weighing a foil accent, a niche audience, or a heavier full-mail piece, it helps to see the trade-off in plain numbers. The chart below lines up letterheads against their closest stationery siblings so you can compare the starting price on each before you choose.

See how a finished letterhead lands

Words only go so far. Want to see how paper, ink, and finishing come together on a real sheet? The gallery below collects letterhead work printed in-house, across different papers and layouts, so you can borrow ideas and see how a choice actually reads on the page. Tap any print to see it larger.

What do businesses use custom letterheads for?

Any document that leaves your office is a chance to look the part. Firms send contracts and engagement letters on letterhead, accountants put invoices and quotes on it, and offices run cover letters, memos, and notices on it every day. Law firms, churches, hotels, and clinics each lean on a letterhead to make routine paper feel official. Pair a formal paper with full-color ink and a three-hole punch, and a single sheet handles everything from a one-page notice to a filed multi-page agreement.

See the rest of our stationery

Letterheads are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If a foil finish, a specialty audience, or a matching envelope would serve you better, the rest of the stationery family is one tap away on letterheads printing. Each option shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page, so finding the right fit takes seconds.

Print your letterheads today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Whatever paper, ink, or finishing you pick, these letterheads are built to make your correspondence look established and consistent. Need them before a deadline? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your letterheads today.