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We offer a wide range of binding services with a quick turnaround for all types of documents, books, booklets and presentation materials...

Wiro Binding Coated metal wires available in black, white & silver, £5fro.m50 accommodating A4 documents of just a few pages up to a block of print up to approximately 25mm in thickness. Wires can be cut to accommodate smaller documents or A4 short edge, and in some cases can be joined for binding larger A3 or A2 documents and sets of illustrations. We keep a range of types of card and acetate overlays which provide extra rigidity and durability to the bound document. We mainly bind documents that have been printed in house but by agreement will bind supplied printed materials. Documents can be bound in portrait or landscape orientations. Prices start from £5.50 (plus printing cost) for simple smaller documents with clear covers and card backs. Additional charges may arise for complex requests such as Canadian & Half Canadian binding. Wiro bindings can be unbound if additional pages are to be added but the cost is the same as producing a new binding. Printed pages should have 15mm binding margins to ensure content isn’t punched through. This service can offer a same day turnaround. Comb Binding Punched rectangular holes rather than the round holes used in wiro binding, allows binding up to 50mm in thickness. Black or white combs are stocked. Combs can be reused if adding pages into existing documents so rebind costs are lower. Again we can add acetate overlays and card backings onto comb bound documents. Comb Binding is used mainly when documents are thicker than can be Wiro Bound or its anticipated that pages will need to be added at a later date. Costs are the same as Wiro Binding. Printed pages should have 15mm binding margins to ensure content isn’t punched through. This service can offer a same day turnaround. 03

‘Steel’ Thermal Binding Narrow ‘U’ shaped channel with an acetate overlay on the £2fro.m50 front and the back of each, this does not require holes to be punched in the bound documents. Neater and less bulky than wire or comb binding, they will accommodate documents up to approximately 25mm in thickness. Black coated channels in stock, other colours available for long bespoke runs. Suitable only for A4 documents in portrait orientation. Prices start from £2.50 per document plus printing costs. This service can offer a same day turnaround. ‘VIP’ Thermal Binding £8fro.m00 Narrow ‘U’ shaped channel with black, hard back cover & spine – similar to a traditional hard back book. 3mm up to 24mm spine thickness. This process is suited to quick turnaround dissertation binding when gold blocking isn’t required. These are A4 portrait only. Prices start from £8.00 per document plus printing costs. This service can offer a same day turnaround. IMPORTANT NOTES In some cases, if work flow allows, shorter timescales advise against particular suggestions if we don’t think the may be possible but additional express charges will apply. processes we use are suitable. We will generally advise Documents produced in time scales shorter than those against using your own paper stocks. They can be advised may incur additional costs if we have to resolve unreliable both for printing and binding, page rates for issues arising with damaged documents, loose pages etc. print on supplied stock will be the same as using the We will do our best to consider particular bespoke items stocks we carry. but additional costs may apply and in some cases we will 04

Hard back channel binding & Gold blocking Bound hard back book with digitally foiled lettering (from a of text on the spine of each book. The system is a clamp supplied Word Document) on the front and embossed on the binding type and as such it can be opened up and have spine if required. These have a black matt buckram style replacement pages inserted but there would be a nominal cloth material cover. charge for this. Lettering can be metallic gold or silver if required. A4 portrait only. Gold lettering can also be embossed on the front cover using a maximum of three lines top & bottom and a Lead times are 1-2 working days generally for these types of maximum of 32 letter characters (including spaces) on each bindings although for an additional charge we can offer same line. As an additional element we can gold block a single line day services. Hard back wiro binding A hybrid option using a hardback printed case cover with the (external wire only) options. These are durable documents internal pages wiro bound to the outer covers. This is a good and ideal for frequent use. Lead times for the services 2-3 option for design books and we can offer not only A4 working days subject to artwork. Prices start from £25.00 portrait/landscape, A3 landscape/portrait & A2 landscape plus the printed page rate. 05

Case binding This specifically denotes the use of a fully printed hard back can include different papers that would not be suited to glue cover with internal pages bound in. The covers can be gloss, bindings. matt or soft touch laminated. The internal pages can be bound in three ways – EVA Glue, PUR Glue (as detailed on Stapled case bindings can be any size up to A3 (portrait or page 3) or stapled. landscape) – glued case bindings can be 297 x 297mm maximum but smaller bespoke sizes, A4 portrait & Stapled types have the greatest durability but the internal landscape, A5 portrait & landscape, 210 x 210mm are all pages can be no more than 8mm in depth (paper thickness & achievable. type will alter the number of leaves in each case). As the sheets are stapled through (front to back & back to front) we Lead times are 2-3 working days depending on work flow. Saddle stitched (Stapled) booklets To a finished size of A4 portrait or A5 portrait or landscape. blank white pages in some cases if you have not included Depending on paper thickness, we can produce booklets up enough, however it is not always possible to add bleed so to 48pp (printed pages) by this process. Booklets above this this should be checked before sending files to us. If in doubt page count are subject to ‘creep’ on the inner pages so if please ask. ‘safety margins’ are not sufficient, content may be cut into on the centre pages. Documents must have pages in Covers can be printed on heavier stock and have matt or multiples of four (8, 12, 16, 20 etc) and should be supplied as gloss lamination. We use a Square Back System which multi-page PDF files (single sequential pages – not spreads) presses the fold to create a thin & neat spine. Prices start with suitable ‘safety borders’ and 3mm bleed. We can add from £5.50 depending on page count. 06

Perfect binding Ideal for magazines and paper back/soft cover books. We can pages) or 20 leaves – thinner documents would be Saddle now offer digitally printed & perfect bound documents as Stitched. We recommend using uncoated paper stock one-off or short runs in a wide variety of sizes and thickness’. between 120gsm & 160gsm. Paper thicker than this isn’t These are ideal for projects and dissertations where creative flexible and can weaken the documents when users seek to full colour printing is appropriate. flatten the pages when opening the books. Gloss and silk coated papers are less absorbent and can lead to weaker We can only Perfect Bind documents we print in house. As bindings. Soft covers can be matt, matt soft touch or gloss with Saddle Stitched documents we require PDF files with laminated. The process also uses specific endpapers to bind suitable ‘safety borders’ and bleed. In order to bind these the pages into the spine - this means inside covers are types of documents they should have enough pages to unprinted and an unprinted ‘fly leaf’ appears at the front & create a spine, this generally being above 40pp (printed back of each document. We use two glue systems to make Perfect Bound & Case Bound books; EVA Glue dries fairly quickly so normal turnaround is 2-3 working days depending on work-flow and the files supplied. In some case we can shorten this (although additional charges are made) but we do not recommend this. We do not recommend that you use multiple paper types as these will weaken the binding. Whilst weappreciate the use of tracing paper has creative possibilities, it does not bind well and may mean pages become lose and fall out of the document. Acetate has no absorbency and will not bind successfully, thicker papers also used to divide sections also create a weakness in the binding. PUR Glue is much stronger than EVA Glue and will create a more durable binding. It will also allow slightly thicker stock and the use of tracing papers (not acetate). However, this glue type cures slowly over a period of time meaning lead times will be generally 3-4 working days. From the point a document is bound it requires 24hrs minimum before it can be handled. Costs for this option are slightly above EVA glue bindings. 07

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