Embossing images requires creating a die — charges vary with size. Save money by discussing the design early in the planning process. Oftent

Standard drilling is 3-hole, but size and position of holes can be customized Standing dies can save you money During the design process, show the print representative the possible design to determine if there is an existing die. If it is decided to use the standing die, $75 to $450 can be saved. Presentation folders have a standard die with one 4-inch pocket A standard presentation folder has 4-pages and a 4-inch flat pocket. Adding an additional pocket will increase costs b

Die cut tab dividers can assist readers through sections of a binder Tab dividers have an approximate half inch section that extends past the face of a book or multi-page document. The purpose of the divider is to assist the reader to easily find a particular section of the book. The type of binding that allows the greatest flexibility and lowest relative cost of tab dividers would be loose leaf binding such as ring, Wire-O, or spiral binding. The tabs are inserted by hand at

Comb bindings are more vulnerable to damage than spiral bindings. Adjoining pages are held more tightly in register with each other than with spiral bindings. Comb bindings come in several colors and allow screen printing on a document’s spine. They can bind pieces up to 3" thick. With comb binding, pages can easily be added or removed. Plastic comb bindings allow pages to lie flat when opened. However, they cannot be doubled back. And inserting them is a hand operation that

Case binding is the most common type of bookbinding for hardcover books. There is a minimum of 60 printed sheets in case binding . The pages are arranged in 16- or 32-page signatures which are collated and machine-sewn. The sewn edges are coated with glue. Then a strip of gauze adheres to the document’s spine. Finally, the book and its covers are placed in a casing-in machine, which pastes the endpapers and fits the cover, which is made of cardboard covered with paper, cloth,

Spiral bindings are made of either plastic or wire and allow the printed document to lie flat. Pages can also be folded back to 360 degrees without damage to the spine. These are useful characteristics for documents such as technical manuals, notebooks, and calendars. Spiral binding allows play—hence registration inconsistency—between pages. One cannot add pages to documents once they are spiral bound. Also, rough handling may crush the spirals. Spiral wire coils range from 1

A Wire-O binding holds the covers and pages of a document firmly in place by a double-loop wire inserted through holes drilled in their left edges. All of the document’s pages lie flat when opened. Wire-O books can also be folded back to 360 degrees without damage to the spine. Wire-O books allow for images or charts spread across two pages, and are ideal for any book that needs to stay open when not being held: cookbooks, instruction manuals, calendars, or meeting materials.

Perfect binding is an adhesive based binding. It is the easiest and least durable way to produce books, and is how most paperback books are bound. To produce a perfect-bound document, the piece’s folded signatures are gathered together in page sequence, clamped together, and placed in a machine that slices about 1/8" off their left edges. Then roughers mill the newly sliced sheet edges to prepare them for gluing. Finally, the edges receive an adhesive application and and are

Saddle Stitching refers to a very popular book binding method used for booklets, magazines, catalogs, calendars, and many other printed documents. In saddle stitching, the piece is held together with wire staples. A machine drives them through the folded crease from the outside where they are clinched between the centermost pages. A saddle-stitched printed piece lies almost flat when opened, a convenience for readers. However, this method involves certain mechanical requireme