When it comes to binding Wharton’s Copy Print and more has many options to choose from. At Wharton’s you can fasten two or more pieces of paper together with a simple staple, (corner, side or saddle), drill them for binders, cerlox, spiral, fastback, velobind or glue them to make pads. Each method fits a need and at Wharton’s we will help you pick the method that will suit your project and budget best.
Staples, the most cost effective, will work best when you just need to keep a set of sheets together when handing them out. For legal papers, seminar notes, annual reports or newsletters, stapling can be very effective. Take your sheets, fold them in half and drop staples in the centre and you have a neat booklet that can give a more professional look to your stapled piece.
Drilling can be used in combination with the other methods of binding. It is a faster more cost effective way of putting holes in large numbers of sheets so they can be inserted into binders or held together with rings, brads or screws. Using this method allows you to make changes by adding or removing pages easier than the other binding systems.
Cerlox is the main choice of lawyers and accountants as well as many others. The page is punched with rectangular holes and then a plastic comb is inserted to hold everything together. Cerlox is cost effective and can allow for page changes quite easily.
Spiral binding is very similar to cerlox but uses round holes and a continuous plastic coil that allows you to open the book and fold it back on itself, great for workbooks when desk space is at a premium. While changes are possible, spiral binding is not recommended for documents that may need the addition of pages.
Fastback uses a hot melt glue strip to bind the sheets together in an easily read piece that will work well and sit on a shelf neatly. Fastback is a compact binding system that reduces weight and space requirements when shipping is a consideration.
Velobind (a trademark name of GBC) also know as strip binding is a system that uses rigid plastic strips to hold your pages together. Velobind is sometimes the preferred binding of colleges or universities.
Of course Wharton’s Copy Print and more has a variety of paper, cover stock and plastic sheets that can be used to cover your booklet and give it a better more professional look and improved durability.
Padding glue allows you to make tearaway pads, useful for promotional scratch or note pads, fill out forms such as prescriptions or referral sheets. Padding can also be useful when at an outdoor venue to keep loose sheet handouts in control under windy conditions.
Give Wharton’s Copy Print and more a call to see how we can use these various binding methods to finish your print project.