Plan Out Your Binding

Before you send those booklets to the printer, stop to ask yourself if you’ve put any consideration to the binding.

Are you aware of all the different styles of binding out there and what kind of impact they’ll have on the finished product? The answer should be yes, but if it isn’t, keep reading.

If you pick up any kind of book of any kind you’ll start to notice a variety of different ways to bind it. This can impact the look of the book along with the formatting inside.

The issue of formatting is particularly important to be aware of while you’re still in the designing phase. How wide the margins are for each page is directly connected to the type of binding you’re going to use.

With ring binding, which uses metal or plastic rings to hold the pages together, you’re going to need a wider margin due to the rings. If you haven’t planned that out while designing your booklet you risk having parts of the page cut off or cropped tightly due to the use of the rings. This can easily bring down the look of a booklet and make it look sloppy.

If a separate graphics team is going to be designing the cover to your booklet you might put consideration to the use of perfect binding in order to make the process go smoother. Perfect binding is just like paperback novels, where the inside pages are glued together and the front and back cover are glued to the spine of the pages.

This way you can have one team focusing on only the inside pages of your booklet while another graphics team works on the cover. When it comes time to start your booklet printing> all you have to do is combine the two.

If you want a really strong, sturdy means of binding your booklet you might check out thermal binding. By use of heat it permanently attaches a thin, tough strip to the edge of your pages to hold them together. Another plus with this method is that it allows a person to lay the book flat while it’s open, something perfect binding isn’t as good for.

These aren’t the only methods one could use to bind their booklets. Other formats range from stitched binding to case binding, just to name a few, and go on from there. Each style has its strengths depending on how you plan to go about your booklet printing.

Because of how they can affect the design of the booklet you need to be sure you know from the very beginning what style of binding you plan to use. Because it is usually the last step of the process people tend to forget about it until it’s time to bind. Make sure you have planned out all along the method that will best fit your booklet.

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