Booklet Binding: Sizes And Types Of Booklet Binding Used

Booklets are documents with multiple pages. They are arranged on sheets of paper such that when you fold them, the page numbers are arranged in the correct order. To print a booklet you must know what you are doing, not many know how to carefully arrange and make sure that each of the pages is centred on the sheets. If you are looking into printing a booklet, you should try booklet printing in Kennesaw, GA.

To print a booklet, your printer must support either automatic or manual duplex printing. The manual duplex printing requires you to use two separate printing passes: one to print the front side and another to print the back side. You can check your printer manual to see if it does support this feature.

Sizes of booklet printing

• Newsletter. Many companies have now employed the use of booklets as newsletters where they update their customers on the recent happenings of the company and also give them relevant information that they need to know.
• Recipe booklets. Usually contains short but descriptive recipes and is usually designed by chefs and companies that sell cookery items and/or ingredients.
• Instruction manual. This contains important information about a product. information like how to assemble, dismantle, and install it, safety precautions, warranties and guarantees. It is also called the owner’s manual.

• Portfolios. This is mostly used by companies that are into creative works like photography, interior and exterior designs or those who make tailoring products and need to showcase their art and creativity to their prospective clients. This allows the client to get an idea of what they offer.
• Reference guide. Almost like an instruction manual but it is a shorter form of it. It contains all the most essential information, key features, and dos and don’ts.
• Brochure booklet. This contains descriptions, information and pictures of and about a product. These brochures are usually made to be in good form, with great designs as well as content to be able to tell your brand apart from that of your competitors.

Types of booklet binding

• Saddle-stitched. It is the most commonly used type of binding that involves the folding of the sheets that are assembled and then stapled through the fold line.
• coil/spiral binding. It is quite similar to saddle stitching but it requires you to make holes along the left corner of the sheet pages and then put a metal or plastic wire through those holes.
• Perfect binding. Rather than stapling or coiling, this method requires you to paste the pages of the sheets at the spines and the other three sides of the booklet are then cropped to create a perfect look. Hence, the term perfect binding.