Fulfillment: is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. SometimesOrder fulfillment is used to describe the more narrow act of distribution or the logistics function, however, in the broader sense it refers to the way firms respond to customer orders.
Package Design: is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and personal use.
Drilling: is a technique used in trade binderies for providing large quantities of paper with round holes. The paper can be processed as loose leaves and in brochures (stitched, perfect bound). The holes usually serve for storage (filing), sometimes for decorative purposes.
Fold: Bending and creasing a sheet of paper as required to form a printed product. Used for products like booklets, brochures, and thank you cards.
Index Tab Cutting: The extended portion of the sheet used to highlight specific content in a manual, or in a binder. Corporate Document Solutions offers mylar tabs for extra strength and durability.
Mylar: A clear or colored plastic film applied to the tab extension. We currently have dozens of colors available.
Precision Cutting/Trimming: Cutting is curing images in or out of paper. Trimming cutting the edges off and around the paper.
Ring Binders: A loose-leaf binder with ring-shaped clasps that can be opened to pass through holes in the paper.
Shrinkwrapping: To package (an article) by enclosing it in clinging transparent plastic film that shrinks tightly onto it.
Signature Booklet Making: A booklet is, yes, a little book. Booklets come in many shapes and sizes but are generally smaller than books at 4-48 pages or so, with paper covers, and simple saddle-stitched binding.
A typical booklet style is a stack of 2 or more sheets of letter size paper, folded in half. The number of pages is always divisible by 4, such as 4 pages, 8 pages, 12 pages, of course you can leave some of those pages blank.
They can be used as small story books, instructional manuals, recipe books, and are often used as brochures, catalogs, blads, and inserts for CDs and DVDs (CD booklet). Some reports, including annual reports , are essentially special purpose booklets.
Spiral Coiling: Coil binding, also known as spiral binding, is a commonly used book binding style for creating documents, reports, presentations and proposals. This binding style is known by a number of names including spiral coil, color coil, colorcoil, ez-coil, plastic coil, spiral binding, plastikoil and coilbind.
Documents bound with helical coil (usually called spiral coil) can open flat on a desk or table and offer 360 degree rotation for easy note taking. This binding style is durable and is often used for documents that need to be mailed. Spiral coil binding spines are also available in more colors and sizes than other binding styles.
Stitching: Or saddle stitch staplers or simply saddle staplers are bookbinding tools designed to insert staples into the spine (saddle) of folded printed matter such as booklets, catalogues, brochures, and manuals.
Thermal Tape Binding: A method of securing loose printed pages with a strip of tape or plastic strips fused with heat is known as thermal binding. One of the advantages of thermal binding is that it allows documents to lay flat when opened, is sturdy, and neat. If you use covers with thermal binding you can match the tape to the cover for a sleek, almost invisible look or use contrasting colors, making the tape appear less utilitarian and more like a design element for the outside of the book or report.
Twin Loop/Wire-O Spiral Coiler: Wire-O bound is sometimes mistaken as spiral bound, or coil bound. Spiral and coil bound are actually a single continuous loop that is threaded through the holes punched in the spine of the booklet. Spiral binding is a popular method for notebooks.
One benefit of Wire-O is that it provides durability and has a polished, professional look. The wires start in a “C” form and are tightened into the holes of the document, securing up to 1.25 inches of paper. Depending on the thickness of paper stock you select, your Wire-O® project can have 4 to 350 pages. Wire-O is available in a large selection of colors to accent your design. The end result is a round-edge wire closure that is both sturdy and attractive.
In addition, Wire-O binding secures the pages in perfect registration, meaning they are aligned edge to edge when opened. This unique product packaging provides an optimal solution for books that require overlays including diagrams, floor plans, info-graphics, and site layouts. Since the pages lay out flat, side-by-side, double-page spreads, or crossovers, can be incorporated, combining the two pages full dimensions. Some examples of this application would be plat maps, flow charts, large graphics, or drawings.
Front and back cover for Wire-O bound materials can be either the same stock as the main pages, or a heavier cover stock that acts as a protective barrier for the book.