Bindery
Bindery
Select the Perfect Finishing and Binding for your Next Print Project
When our customers need assistance with binding options we can help them decide on a presentation format. We’ll suggest various options depending on how the materials are going to be used, the design and style of the product or service they represent, and the shelf life needed. Corporate Document Solutions’ in-house bindery provides a wide variety of finishing options, saving our customers both time and money by eliminating the need for costly outsourcing.
CDS’ Finishing Options
Acetate Cover:
A transparent sheet that protects the cover of any book or manual.
Tabs:
Index tabs allow for easy, fast referencing of sections in binders and manuals. Tabs
can be custom printed in a variety of banks. Tabs & Mylar Reinforcement
Binder:
Manuals can also be printed and inserted into ring binders. Our standard ring binders are white, clearview 3-rings which can be customized with full-color covers and spines.
Color Cover:
Color Covers can be added to any binder or manual. They are usually printed on heavier stock and can be protected by an acetate cover.
Double Parallel Fold:
A double parallel fold is when a document folds in half twice.
Fold In Half:
A document that is scored and folded in half. Typically used for brochures and cards.
Plastic Spiral Coil:
Plastic spiral coil binding is a popular book binding method. Documents bound with spiral coil open a full 360° and can be laid flat on a desk or table without damage to the pages. Coil Books.
Saddle Stitch:
Saddle stitching or signature bookletmaking is the process by which sheets of paper (in signatures of four pages each) are folded in half and stapled through the center of the spine of folded sheets.
Stitch Upper Left:
Stitch upper left is the term used when each set of documents are stapled in the upper left corner. This option is typically used when all pages are of the same orientation (i.e. all portrait or all landscape).
Tri-Fold:
Trifolds are panels that fold in on each other to form the finished size of the print product. The three panels do not have the same width since compensation is needed for the thickness of the paper in the fold.
Unfolded:
Unfolded documents are simply flat sheets of paper inserted into binders as front covers; used as flyers, single page sell sheets, or letterhead
Z-Fold: Commonly used for brochures, the Z-fold method uses two parallel folds to create six panels of equal size – three panels on each side of the paper. The two folds are made in opposite directions, which resembles the letter Z.
Cutting:
Precision cutting is the process by which exact measurements are entered into a computer program and a mechanized cutter is used to make cuts.
Drilling:
Drilling is a term used to describe the process of creating a hole. The most common type
of drilling performed is 3-hole drilling, which enables items to be inserted into three-ring binders.
Padding:
Padding is a term used to describe the process of creating pads, as in notepads. This
typically involves taking a stack of documents, adding a chipboard back, and gluing them together across the top.
Perforating:
Perforating refers to the process of piercing a line of small holes to allow for easy tearing.
Shrink Wrapping:
Shrink Wrapping refers to the process of wrapping items in plastic film, then applying heat so that the film shrinks and either loosely or tightly wraps around the items. 
Thermal Tape Binding: Thermal binding is a type of book binding commonly used for manuals.
With this type of binding, a piece of tape is actually wrapped and glued around
the base of the document’s pages.