I have just handed in my PhD thesis and finished all corrections! Thanks to covid it's all been digital up to this stage, but I'd really like a nice hard bound copy to keep on my shelves.

The problem is, my thesis template has a blue line at the bottom of each page and every print company I've seen says if there is even one pixel of colour on a page it gets charged as a full colour page, meaning I'm looking at well over £100 per copy.

Does anyone know of a printer that charges base on the amount of colour ink used, rather than just a flat fee per colour page?

I guess my other option would be to print it off myself and then just do the binding professionally. Are there companies that let you do that?

Thanks in advance!