Finishing Methods-2nd Entry

To continue a bit on the finishing methods-1st entry from earlier, we can briefly discuss a few more ways to bind/finish a printed job. 

A nice way to put a book together, or just pages together is to wire-o bind the book. Or, some sort of spiral, whether it’s metal or plastic. Again, the possibilities are not endless, but there are a lot of choices. The wire for spiral binding can be the usual black or silver. But many colors exist, form white, green, red, blue, bronze, etc. Since wire-o or spiral will allow the pages to lie flat, this can be very helpful with books that need to viewed by a group of people. Wintry has produced quite a few presentation booklets for architects over the years using wire-o to bind. A very thick book can be bound using wire-o or spiral. The results very nice.

Another possibility for binding a book is to put grommets or eyelets through the face of the book close to the binding edge. I talked about this on a specific job in the “interesting job” entry of 9/22/09. Just as a note-eyelets have the hole through them, grommets do not. The usual choice is eyelets. They come standard in many colors, but can also be obtained with a color of the designers choice-basically painted to match. They come in different sizes-width, depth. However, you probably do not want to bind a very thick book with eyelets. Besides the limitation of size, they can move a bit if not tight enough, and the more pages, the easier it moves. This method is a bit different than what is usually seen, but the end product will also be different from what you usually see. Sometimes a good thing

Harold Chayefsky
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