about binding

We can offer various binding techniques for your print; all tried, tested and quality controlled to ensure a durable finish. Detailed below are the main services you may require:

• Wire/Saddle Stitching - useful for all kinds of booklets; printed pages are collated, trimmed and folded before being manually stitched with wire staples to hold the pages in place. This method is also good for stitching together items such as ticket or gift voucher books; especially when the pages have been perfed so as they are torn from the book, the stubs remain intact.
• Wiro Binding - using specialist machines, individual pages are punched and a continuous preshaped coloured wire is squeezed through the holes of a batch of sheets, holding the pages together. This is useful for reference, cookery and educational books, manuals and material for photocopying, as the pages lay flat when turned.
• Perfect Binding - this is the standard process used when books are too thick to be stitched, or you wish to have a paperback book style finish on your print. Pages are gathered in sections, trimmed, folded and stacked before being glued onto the spine of the cover sheet. This durable finish can be made more long lasting by incorporating additional stitching or thread sewing techniques.