Spiral coil binding machines create professional presentations and booklets. Documents open easily and lie flat -- perfect for reference materials and training manuals.
For reports, proposals and presentations, use these unique and new coil binding systems. Documents will have a sleek, professional look and will be securely bound yet easily revised.
Description of Plastic Coil (Spiral) binding is:
Plastic coil binding is quickly becoming the most popular type of short-run book
binding method. Many companies are upgrading their plastic comb binding to
plastic coil. The reason? Coil is more functional, secure, and looks better.
Coil is available in a wide range of colors, and coil-bound book pages may be
rotated 360 degrees, and will lay flat. Coil is great for bound media that is
mailed because of its resiliency. If the binding is bent in shipping, it will
bounce back to its original shape.
There are three primary types of coil: 4:1, 5:1, and, 6mm. 4:1 means there
are 4 holes punched in every inch of your binding edge, 5:1 means there are 5
holes in every inch punched and 6mm is somewhere between the two.
4:1 coil the most popular type of coil bind. Its also very versatile.
A 4:1 coil bind will allow you to bind books as small as 10 pages, and as large
as 1-1/2" thick.
6mm coil is one of the newer coil types. It will bind the same-sized
documents as the 4:1, but has a slightly tighter hole pattern.
5:1 coil has been referred to as the nicest looking coil because of
its tight hole pattern. 5:1 coil can bind a book as small as 10 pages and as
large as 7/8".
How to Bind:
#1: Punch the sheets for your books. Make sure your pages are all the way
against the back wall and completely flush against the side guide. Don't try to
punch more pages than recommended for your machine.
#2: If you do not have an electric inserter, then manually twist or roll your
coil into the book. If you have an electric inserter, manually insert the coil
into the first few holes, then use the feed wheel or roller to insert the coil.
#3: Make sure the red dot on your pliers is facing up. While keeping the
pliers flat and horizontal to your work table, squeeze the pliers tight and
without releasing, twist them clockwise to crimp. Hint: The deeper you can get
the coil into the pliers the nicer the crimp will be.
