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Perfect Binding Perfect binding is commonly used for paper-back books, telephone and street directories, glossy magazines, and increasingly for good quality and prestige publications, annual reports etc. The process binds pages securely with a flexible adhesive creating exceptional results, especially when coupled with a full colour cover on high quality stock. |
| Problems with the earliest technology related to pages becoming detached after heavy use have now largely been overcome. Today, most top class magazines are perfect bound. With its crisp, square spine, looks very attractive. The sections of the
book are collated, and their backs ground off leaving a rough surface upon
which the adhesive is applied. The cover is glued into place after it has
been scored to allow the adhesive to slightly overlap the front and back
of the book block. Uncoated matt stock produces the best results for
this type of binding. |
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| Saddle Stitching Saddle stitching is the most economical binding available. Pick up a most high street magazines to see what this looks like. The pages are stapled together through the centre of the spine of folded sheets. Cheap cost and easy production makes this binding the most popular binding method. Generally it can be used for books up to around 6mm thick. |
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