Binding Options

Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, collating your finished printed project Collating:

Gathering and arranging of individual sheets or other printed components into a pre-determined sequence.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, folding your finished printed projectFolding:

Assorted options available | Click on image for better view.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, scoringScoring:

Scoring is the term applied to the process that places a crease in paper stocks and other substrates allowing the material to be folded. Scoring produces a professional appearance by eliminating paper cracking and creating an extra-smooth fold.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed projectLaminating:

For documents that need to last a long time. It’s a layer of plastic that increases durability and safeguards against wear and tear. Different thickness available.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, perforatingPerforating:

Pages can be perforated to allow for tear-outs, leave behinds and return post-cards.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, hole drillingDrilling:

A standard 3-hole drill is the most common request, which is 3 holes on the side. Also 1 hole, 2 hole, and 5 hole drilling is available.


PaddingPadding:

Padding is done by joining a specific number of individual sheets or forms together by applying a padding compound along one side of the stack. Every stack usually has a chipboard backer to provide stability to the pad.


Other services available include, but not limited to:


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed projectPerfect Binding:

A Perfect Binding is a form of bookbinding in which the sheets are bound by gluing, after the back folds have been cut off, rather than by sewing.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, scoring your finished printed projectNumbering:

Commonly used on carbonless forms, sequential numbering printing refers to printing numbers in sequential order on sets of forms or other printed pieces. Each form or piece gets a unique number and is printed in either ascending or descending numerical order.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, saddle stitchingSaddle-Stitching:

Saddle Stitching refers to a very popular book binding method in which folded sheets are gathered together one inside the other and then stapled through the fold line with wire staples. The staples pass through the folded crease from the outside and are clinched between the centermost pages.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, spiral bindingSpiral Binding:

Spiral binding is a method in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, spiral bindingWire-O Binding:

Wire binding is a popular commercial book binding method, and is known by a number of different names including twin loop wire, Wire-o, double loop wire, double-o, ring wire and wire bind. Documents that are bound with wire binding will open completely flat on a desk and allow for 360 degree rotation of bound pages.


Artech Printing, Madison Heights MI, bindery services for your finished printed project, index tabsIndex Tabs:

Get control of loose papers with tab dividers and index tabs. Designed for simple organization, tabbed dividers allow you to sort your documents by category. Great for business presentations.