What is bindery?

Most printed products require extra steps to be taken after printing before the product is ready for use. These extra steps turn loose printed sheets into books, brochures, cards, and more! These steps, often called finishing or bindery services, are completed inside a bindery. Here are some of the bindery services we offer at Greenerprinter:

• Trimming and cutting: Using a blade to cut off any extra material and reduce a printed product down to its final size.
• Saddle-stitching: Stapling folded sheets together on the crease to create a booklet with a stapled (saddle-stitched) spine.
• Perfect binding: Gluing multiple pages together with a flexible cover and trimming the remaining edges to create “perfect” sides.
• Wire-O coil binding: Using a double wire to collect pages together into a single book.
• Collating: Gathering and organizing printed pages into a specific order.
• Scoring and creasing: Making a crease in a specific place on a printed sheet to prevent tearing and make folding easier.
• Folding: Bending a paper over on itself to create specific shapes and sizes.
• Laminating and coating: Adding lamination or special textured coating to create special effects and tactile elements.
• Die cutting: Using a custom-shaped blade (die) to punch shapes out of printed materials. Both contour cuts and kiss cuts can be made with die cutting.
• Embossing and debossing: Using custom-shaped dies to form raised or sunken 3D images in paper.
• Gluing: Securing 2+ sheets of paper together with glue or other adhesives.
• Perforating: Creating lines of small holes that make it easy to tear along the specified lines.
• Drilling and punching: Using a drill or hole punch to add holes in specific places on a printed product.
• Foiling: Using custom-shaped dies to add metallic foil designs to printed goods.
• and more!

Here at Greenerprinter, we have the necessary experience and equipment in our bindery to create any of these finishing procedures with the highest quality. We can’t wait to work with you on your next printed project.