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The Mini Binding Guide

Part 1

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This very common binding technique is

created by punching wire through the pages

at the spine. The wire is then bent flat on the

inside to grip all the pages. Similar to, but not

the same as stapling.

Saddle stitched

880pages

Similar to saddle stitching. The difference

being that a loop is created with the wire on

the spine so that the document can be

inserted into a ring binder.

Loop stitched

880pages

Sectionsoffoldedpages(signatures)have

theirspinescutandrougheduptohelpthem

bondwiththeglue.Allthepagesarethen

gatheredandgluedtoacoverwhichis

wrappedaroundthem.

Perfectbound

16180pages

Thestandardbindingforahardbackbook.

Therearemanydifferenttypesofcase

bindingbuttypicallytheinnerpagesaresewn

togetherinsectionsandthentheseareglued

toendpaperswhicharegluedtothecover.

Casebound

8200+pages

Similartosaddlestitchingatjustafewpages,

butthreadisusedinsteadofwireandthe

threadisstitchedalongthewholespine.As

morepagesareincludeditbecomesmore

similartocasebindingbutwithoutthecover.

Sewnbound

8200+pages

Staborsidestitchingagainuseswiretopunch

throughthepages.Thistimehoweverthe

wireispunchedfromthefrontthroughtothe

backofthedocument,ratherthanatthe

spine.Oftenthencoveredtohidethewire.

Stabstitched

2300leaves

Thanks to Centreprint for their help

www.centre-print.co.uk

Trim around the whole page

(blue dotted lines)

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Fold along all the dotted lines

(dont worry which way initially)

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Cut along the greydotted line in the centre

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Fold together

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