15 Best Yearbook Publishing Companies (A Guide With Links)

A yearbook is the one book almost every student keeps, and the company you choose decides how easy it is to make and how good it looks on the shelf.

Whether you are a yearbook adviser at a big high school, a parent volunteer at an elementary school, or organizing a book for a camp or club, the options range from full-service printers with a local rep to online platforms where you design every page yourself. Below are 15 yearbook companies, what each one is best at, and where to start a conversation with them. If you are looking for book publishers more broadly, browse my collection of publishing firms.

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Let’s look at some of the top yearbook publishing companies:

1. Jostens

Jostens started in 1897, when Otto Josten opened a watch-repair business in Owatonna, Minnesota, and it has grown into one of the biggest names in yearbooks, class rings, and graduation products. Its yearbook staffs design in Monarch, a cloud platform that includes Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and schools can add a digital Yearbook+ extension, photo sharing, ads, and personalization. Jostens schools also get access to Renaissance, its school culture and recognition program. Find a Jostens rep.

2. BookBaby

BookBaby is best known as a self-publishing company for authors, but it also prints yearbooks for schools, clubs, and businesses that already have print-ready files. There are no multi-year commitments: you order the exact quantity you need, anywhere from 25 to 10,000 copies, and reprint later if more families ask. Books ship within a few business days of receiving finished files, which makes BookBaby a practical choice when your deadline is tight. See BookBaby yearbook printing.

3. Varsity Yearbook

Varsity Yearbook is the yearbook business many advisers still know as Herff Jones. When Varsity Brands sold the Herff Jones graduation business in 2023, it kept the yearbook side and relaunched it in January 2024 as a division of Memphis-based Varsity Spirit. Staffs build their books in eDesign, supported by video tutorials, the Welcome to YBK curriculum series, and local representatives who work with advisers through the year. Contact your local Varsity Yearbook rep.

4. Walsworth Yearbooks

Walsworth was founded in 1937 by Don Walsworth in Marceline, a small town in Missouri best known as Walt Disney’s boyhood home. It is now run by the fourth generation of the family and says it has never been bought or sold. Its yearbook team focuses only on yearbooks, with local sales reps, U.S.-based live tech support, curriculum for staffs, and Yearbook 360, its web-based design software. Get started with Walsworth.

5. Entourage Yearbooks

Entourage Yearbooks is an independent yearbook company headquartered in New Jersey, with offices in Long Beach, California, and Indianapolis, Indiana. It offers tiered pricing, an Ad Designer for selling recognition ads, the LINK online store, design reviews, webinar training, and premium finishes such as Smythe-sewn binding. Entourage also owns Picaboo Yearbooks, listed below. Contact Entourage Yearbooks.

6. Shutterfly

Shutterfly is the photo-book option on this list. Its Custom Yearbook line lets schools, sports teams, and clubs design a photo-book style yearbook in Shutterfly’s online editor, with soft and hard cover choices and no school contract. It suits smaller groups that want full control over every page. Shutterfly also owns Lifetouch, which runs a separate school portrait and yearbook program. Browse Shutterfly custom yearbooks.

7. Balfour

Balfour is part of Balfour & Co., a Dallas, Texas company whose brands cover class rings, graduation products, school portraits, and yearbooks. Its books are printed at Balfour Vivid Print, its own printing facility, and staffs can design with web-based, Chromebook-friendly software, an Adobe InDesign extension, or myYear for elementary schools. Balfour Picture Day portraits can feed straight into yearbook production. See Balfour school solutions.

8. Picaboo Yearbooks

Picaboo Yearbooks, now part of Entourage Yearbooks, serves everyone from preschools to colleges, plus camps, sports teams, churches, and reunion groups. It keeps things flexible: no long contracts, no minimum orders, and no strict deadlines beyond sending your book to production about three weeks before you need it. Each customer gets a dedicated account manager, and you can choose from several cover and binding types, including foil name stamping. Contact Picaboo Yearbooks.

9. YearbookLife

YearbookLife is a Florida company based in Sunrise that produces elementary, middle, and high school yearbooks, specialty and event books, and Pixel Digital Yearbooks. Staffs can design for free in Pictavo or YBLive, submit pages made in Canva or InDesign, or hand the work to LifeLine, a service where a dedicated designer builds the book for you. You can request a free sample and a quote before committing. Contact YearbookLife.

10. Friesens

Friesens is an employee-owned Canadian printing company founded in 1907 in Altona, Manitoba, and it still runs a dedicated yearbook division alongside its book printing. It serves schools across Canada and the United States, and its yearbook customers get their own quote form and online tools. If you want a printer with deep book-manufacturing roots, Friesens is a strong candidate. Explore Friesens yearbooks.

11. PrestoYearbooks

PrestoYearbooks, part of PrestoPhoto, is a good fit if your group already designs its own pages. You can upload a finished PDF from InDesign or another program, or build the book in its drag-and-drop Online Book Designer. With more than 100 product options, it prints yearbooks, group photo books, directories, and team books, and offers live chat and email support on weekdays. Contact PrestoYearbooks.

12. Yearbook Machine

Yearbook Machine is an independent company based in London that has produced yearbooks for schools, universities, and other groups since 2008. Its online platform handles page design, collecting payments, and your own storefront, and books are printed in two to three weeks with worldwide delivery. Prices are quoted in pounds, so it makes the most sense for schools in the UK and international groups. See how Yearbook Machine works.

13. Inkwell Yearbooks

Inkwell Yearbooks prints on demand with no minimum order, so it is easy to add copies when late orders come in. You can choose softcover, hardcover, or leather-bound covers with embossing and foil stamping, collect photos through an online submission hub, and add a digital edition with embedded video and links. Inkwell recommends starting eight to nine months before you want the books. Visit Inkwell Yearbooks.

14. Treering

Treering was founded in 2009 and now works with more than 15,000 schools. Its platform is free for schools, with no contracts or minimums: parents buy books online, and Treering ships them to the school in about three weeks. Every student gets two free custom pages to personalize their own copy, along with a free custom cover, and you can choose softcover, hardcover, or both. See how Treering yearbooks work.

15. Memory Book Company

Memory Book Company began as a commercial printer in 1984 and now operates as Memory Book by Jostens from Sedalia, Missouri. It makes yearbooks for elementary, middle, and high schools, homeschool groups, summer camps, and military units. Schools get free standard shipping, online parent pay, free sales materials, and five design options, from a professionally designed book to doing it yourself. Contact Memory Book Company.

Names you may be looking for

Herff Jones

Herff Jones now sells graduation products such as class rings, caps, and gowns. Its former yearbook business operates as Varsity Yearbook, listed above.

Final Thoughts

Yearbooks are cherished markers of growth and shared experiences. Years from now, these pages will carry each person back to a time full of laughter, friendship, and stories. Start by deciding how much help your team needs: a full-service company with a local rep, or an online platform where you design every page yourself. Then request samples and quotes from two or three companies on this list before you commit. Next up, you may want to explore a guide on publishing companies in New Mexico.