When it comes time to put pieces of paper together, you’ll be counting of the services of bindery equipment.
Of course, there are plenty of ways to put paper together. Heck, the stapler in your office is a crude, but functional piece of binding equipment.
Here are the top Binding Methods
- Perfect Binding (used for books)
- Hot Adhesive
- Cold Adhesive
- Thermal
- Plastic Comb
- Spiral
- Double Loop
- Loose Leaf
- Post Bind
Two popular dealers for this machinery are PFequip and APRsales.
Since there are a lot of different binding methods, not surprisingly, there are a lot of different manufacturers. This isn’t an all inclusive list, but it does cover some of the top makers of bindery machines:
- NSC International
- GBC
- Ibico
- J Hewit & Sons Ltd
- C.P. Bourg
- Muller Martini
- Renz Group
- GP2 Technologies
- Unibind
- Horizon
In the days before digital technology was able to put together high end copiers and bindery equipment, book printing was a process that required printing about 2000 copies to be economically feasible. While printing in large quantities is still cheaper, on demand book printing (printing one book at a time) is now completely viable.
As you might expect, pricing really depends on what you need. If you need an office duty thermal binder, you can pick one up from Fellowes and get their TB250 for $79.95.
A similar product from Standard is the Accubind Pro2 which does the same task by in a semi-automatic fashion and it will run $4995.00.
When you get into industrial settings, prices go up very quickly. For an example of an industrial machine, check out the Perfect Book Binder Machine Single Clamp from Friends Engineering.
