We thought we would outline some of the various finishes for booklet making.
Saddle stitching A method that binds one or more printed sections together it uses two wire staples (stitches) on the spine.
Perfect binding Generally Perfect binding is used when the document to be bound is too thick to saddle stitch it has a spine which is ground to give a key, hot melt adhesive is used to hold the pages together.
PUR Binding Very similar to perfect binding but the glue used is stronger than hot melt, the spine does not deteriorate with age.
Loop stitching is used for items that need to be put in a ring binder it can be done ith 2 wires or 4, the loops are on the spine of the printed booklet.
Wiro binding A series of holes are punched and a continuous wire is inserted into the holes on the binding edge, commonly used for handouts, price lists, training manuals and financial type reports.
Other finishes include comb binding mainly used for internal office documents, corner stitching normally a collated document with a staple in the top left hand corner, stab stitching which is often used on for NCR pads, Invoice pads and often hidden by a tape on the spine, finally for some documents you can actually use binding screws, holes would be drilled and the binding screws inserted this has the added advantage of being able to update a brochure quite easily by inserting or taking out a page, normally only suitable for smaller print runs.
