In the production of manuals, manuals or other commercial prints, there is often the problem of choosing the best binding method, which may be closely related to the needs and costs of the end user. This article briefly describes six common binding methods.
1. Folding is the most common post-processing technology and is commonly used in low-cost direct mail products. It can be folded into 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch sizes and sealed with adhesive stickers.
2. Saddle nails are usually referred to as "iron flat nails" and do not use pre-made staples. During the production process, the machine cuts a section from the wire wound into a roll, staples it into the paper, and Fix the wire on the other side of the paper. Experienced people believe that the use of saddle stitched books should not exceed 120 pages. Most saddle-stitched magazines have relatively flat spines. If there are too many pages, the book spins at the spine and the middle page will pop up.
3. Mechanical stapling includes central binding technologies such as ring-bound binding, spiral binding, double-strand binding, and binder loose-leaf binding. Some office users can purchase a plastic ring-bound binding device that binds one book at a time; spiral-bound books will see part of the spiral on the inside of the book, some of the spiral on the outside of the book; two-line binding and loose-leaf plastic clip binding The book is more durable and is usually used for recipes.
The advantage of mechanical binding is that the book can be opened on the desktop; the disadvantage is that the book needs to be manually fed into the binding machine. If there are large quantities of books waiting for mechanical binding, the cost will increase significantly. The user should choose the final use, the degree of aesthetics, and the amount of processing.
4. Adhesive binding can be completed online by web offset printing, which is very fast and cost-effective. However, the paper material used for the entire product must be the same.
5. Binding is also referred to as glue binding and is used for large books or magazines that may take a long time to look through, such as member handbooks, textbooks, and paperback novels. Most books that are bound together exceed 96 pages, unless the paper used is heavy.
6. Hard-case binding is a binding method that connects pages together by lines. It is also used in books that require years of reading, such as textbooks and medical books. This method can make books of various sizes.