The Wide World of Bindery Options

If you’re printing a booklet, book, or really anything with more than one sheet of paper, you have to plan on how it’s all going to be put together.  The possibilities are endless and only stop where your imagination does.

Here are a few of the most common ways you can bind your collateral:

Three Ring Binders

These binders can be custom vinyl or paper turned edge and are great for training manuals, equipment specifications and presentations.. They require large margins since they take up a lot of room at the bind edge, but can be a good option for some types of manuals where page revisions may need to be inserted.

Wire-O and Spiral Binding

Wire-O is a series of parallel wire loops attached along a wire, while spiral binding is a metal or plastic continuous loop passing through the punched holes in a spiral from the top to the bottom of the book. Writing notebooks, notepads, steno pads, cookbooks, booklets, manuals, reference materials, workbooks, and calendars often utilize comb, coil, or double loop wire binding methods.

Saddle stitching

Securing pages by wire staples through the centre fold. In saddle-stitched work the printed sections are inserted one inside the other. Saddle stitching is common for small booklets, calendars, pocket-size address books, and some magazines.

Perfect Binding

Paperback novels are one example of perfect bound books. Booklets, telephone directories, and some magazines use perfect binding.

Case Binding

Case or edition binding is the most common type of binding for hardcover books.

Ultimately the type of binding you use depends on  the purpose of the document, your distribution methods and your budget. Make sure to discuss which method is right for you with your printer before you start.

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