Binding is a broad term covering quite a few different techniques to hold books or pads together. Townprint offers the following types of binding…

• Padding: Usually used on desktop calendars, note pads, worksheets etc.
• Fanapart Padding: NCR forms in duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate sets.
• Saddle Binding: Or saddle stitching. Commonly used on A4 and A5 books up to 140 pages.
• Side Stitching: Used on docket books. A couple of large steel staples through one edge of the book.
• Quarter Binding: Used on docket books. Side stitched with hard covers, hinged and book tape on bound edge.
• Perfect Binding: A square spined bind where the pages are heat glued inside a scored and folded card cover.
• Burst Binding: Like a perfect bind, but the sheets are folded and perforated on the fold. Allows better adhesion.
• Plastic Coil Binding: Lays perfectly flat. Sheets are punched, plastic coil inserted and terminated both ends.