Booklet Printing and Binding: What You Need To Know
Booklet printing and binding can be confusing if you are not sure what is available and what options work best for different situations. Click on the following sections to get your questions answered.
How to choose the right type of booklet for your business or personal needs
DIY booklet printing and binding vs getting a professional design
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Discover your options for booklet printing and binding
Booklet Printing and Binding
1. What are the different types of booklet binding?
Twin Wire:
Twin wire is a method of binding booklets using a continuous hinge that is made of double wire loops that are threaded through the square, rectangular, or circular holes along the edge of your pages. The loops hold your book covers and pages together. You can often choose from a variety of different coloured wires and hole sizes to compliment the style of your booklet.
Twin wire binding is referred to by many other names as well such as:
Wire-O binding
Double-loop binding
Double-O binding
Duo-wire binding
Twin-loop binding
Twin wire binding is great because it
Allows each page in your booklet to lie flat as you open them
Lets you turn your pages 360 degrees without bending or creasing them
Gives your booklet a very polished, professional appearance
Provides you with a sturdy binding that can take more than just average use
Can handle a wide variety of book sizes - thinner books will use a smaller wire size and thicker ones will need a larger wire size
Twin wire binding gives your booklets a very polished look
Saddle Stitch:
Saddle stitch binding is one of the most common and cost-effective methods for booklet printing and binding. Saddle stitch binding is done as follows:
Each page of your booklet is printed on both sides
The pages are stacked together in page number order
Each page is folded in half
The pages are then stapled through the fold with a saddle stitch stapler
A saddle stitch stapler is used to bind the pages together
Square Back Saddle Stitch
Square back saddle stitch binding adds more finesse and a more professional appearance to regular saddle stitch for your booklet printing and binding. With square back saddle stitch binding, the pages of your booklet are still bound together with staples like in saddle stitch binding, however, the spine of your booklet is flat.
Square back saddle stitch is an affordable solution that is in between simple saddle stitching and perfect bound binding. It gives you the secure hold of using staples with the elevated appearance of a square spine at a lower cost than perfect binding.
Perfect Bound:
Perfect bound refers to the process of grouping pages of booklets or books together and binding them with a thermal adhesive. Once all of the pages are bound together, more adhesive is applied to the spine and then the cover is wrapped around them.
This booklet printing and binding process gives you a crisp, clean, and extremely professional-looking finished product. It is a popular choice for softcover books and thicker magazines and booklets.
Perfect binding offers many great advantages including:
They are easy to stack and store on a shelf
You can have the title of your book or booklet printed along the spine
You can choose to have your cover clear-coated to give it extra durability
You get clean cuts for the perfect edges on all three sides
It's a great, affordable choice for short runs and on-demand printing
2. How to choose the right type of booklet for your business or personal needs
Twin Wire Binding:
Twin wire binding works well when you would like your booklet to have a thicker stock of paper. They are also a great choice if you want to incorporate index tabs.
They are an excellent choice for reports, directories, collective agreements, and training manuals because they allow your readers to quickly find information without having to flip through countless pages and they can stay open by themselves which makes them perfect for training sessions and seminars.
Square Back Saddle Stitch:
If you want a very economical way to bind your publications, square back saddle stitching is a good option. It works well for publications such as:
Thin catalogues
Anniversary/Event books
Workbooks
Organization by-laws
Membership booklets
Programs
Newsletters
Pamphlets
Direct mailers
Comic books
Thin magazines
Perfect Bound:
If you are looking for the best choice for highly professional looking and feeling booklets that are also cost-effective, then perfect bound is the way to go.
This type of binding is a great choice for corporate reports, catalogues, product brochures, manuals, and corporate magazines. Perfect bound can give you the high-quality look without the high price tag of a hardcover publication.
Choose the right type of binding for your project
3. DIY booklet printing and binding vs getting a professional design
Doing your own booklet printing and binding today is possible, especially with the great availability of online design programs. Depending on your purpose, how many pieces you need to print, and the quality you are looking for, DIY may be an option, however, there are some things to take into consideration.
1. It may not look professional:
Even with the most advanced software, it is difficult to get a professional-looking design unless you have been properly trained. If you need your booklet to give a professional and not amateur impression, then spending a little bit extra to have a printing company make your booklet for you is well worth it.
2. It may not be cheaper:
Depending on how many booklets you need to print, doing it yourself on a personal inkjet printer could be more expensive than you thought. By the time you pay for all the ink that you will need and especially if you want to print in colour, prices will be inflated. In addition, you need to take into consideration the time that it will take you to produce your own booklets and factor that into the final cost as well.
3. Binding is difficult:
Not only is it difficult to design a professional-looking booklet yourself, but binding it yourself is also challenging. If you have to purchase equipment that will do the binding, then your cost will go up considerably as well.
Looking for Professional Booklet Printing and Binding?
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