Booklet Binding Options - Which Is Best For You?

While the range of different binding options at printing services often looks intimidating

, in reality the choice is usually clear cut. Binding style is just as important as the design in the quality of a booklet printing job; today we are taking an in-depth look at each of the main styles of binding for booklet printing to help ensure your job turns out as planned.

Saddle Stitching

Saddle stitching involves folding the pages of your booklet printing job in half and stapling them along the fold. It is used for booklets up to a certain number of pages, which will vary slightly depending on your printing service. Booklets up to around 60 pages can be saddle stitched without the spine of the booklet bulging.

When your trade printer is saddle stitching your job, some services will require that you impose the pages, while some will do this for you. Imposing the pages involves setting the page numbers up in order so that the numbers appear consecutively when the staples are in place. It is much easier to set up your document as single pages rather than facing pages if you want to have it saddle stitched; either you or your trade printer will more easily be able to impose the pages.

Wire binding

Wire binding and wiro binding are the same process. Holes are punched along the side of your document, and your trade printer uses a special machine to insert a wire coil which acts as ahinge for your booklet. It is suitable for quite large documents, and also when you want the reader to be able to remove pages from the booklet. Wire binding easily allows pages to be torn out, without compromising the sturdiness of each individual page.

Large documents are often suitable for wire binding, but you will need to allow space for the binding in your booklet design. The amount of space needed will depend on how many pages your document has, as this dictates the size of the wire coil. You can, of course, use non-standard size paper to accommodate the space for the binding but this would incur extra cost.

Perfect binding

Perfect binding is the type you see in commercial books with a flat spine those with a vertically printed title along it that allows you to see what the book is while its still in a bookshelf. Soft cover or paperback books are perfect bound. Your printing service separates the pages into sections, and the sections are glued to the inside of the spine. It allows for a seamless look, but involves more materials and more time than either saddle stitching or wire binding and is therefore more expensive.

If a document is more than 600 pages long, most book printing services would recommend splitting it into volumes, otherwise perfect binding becomes unstable. Conversely, the book must be at least 60 pages to give room for printing on the spine.

Custom staple positioning

Sometimes a simple staple is all that is needed, but saddle stitching is too secure. If you want people to be able to flip through your book vertically, or tear pages out easily, using a custom staple position is another binding option offered by printing services. They can place them along the top, or diagonally at a corner, for example.

by: Robert Stevens

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