booklet binding

Anyone who has ever used plastic coil binding in 22mm or larger sizes knows just how tedious the coil inserting process can be on thicker books. Essentially, your trying to push a curved coil into a stack of pages with holes punched straight down. A common trick among experienced bindery operators is

The GBC ProClick P2000 is perfect for offices or production environments that already have a Pro-Click Pronto or 3:1 wire die pattern – as it is a binding only machine without punch capabilities. Super quick binding is achieved by inserting your document/booklet into the P2000’s front slot to ensure

We've had several requests in the past for GBC ProClick spines and now we can proudly say, "Sure, we can get those to you!" Both the loose ProClick Easy-Editing spines and the ProClick Pronto cartridges are now available from CFS.

What is ProClick you ask? It's a binding method developed by General Binding

In this month's issue of the CFS newsletter we announce the arrival of cutting sticks and knife blades for the BaumCut 26.4 and 31.5 inch paper cutters. And for something different, we're sharing a list of our favorite books that have transformed our company culture and the customer service that we strive

Q: “Does CFS Binding Supplies sell used or refurbished equipment?”

A:  Absolutely – CFS Binding Supplies offers a wide selection of used and refurbished equipment! Most of this equipment is taken back through our National Recycling Program and everything is refurbished or rebuilt by our in-house technical

Perhaps you’ve been there – you have the task of punching & binding a large run of booklets. Maybe it’s stacks and stacks of pages, mountains of thousands of sheets that you need to punch with a manual punching machine. Then there’s the vinyl covers or clear covers needed for each booklet and on most

Booklets: a set of documents folded in half and stapled in the middle; one of the most cost effective ways to bind a book. But where do you start? For such a simple bind, there sure are a lot of ways to make them.

So let’s break it down.

Option 1: Manual Staple / Manual Fold

Center-staple your document

Q: “We have a GBC binding machine and were told we needed Cerlox bindings. Will your plastic comb bindings work?”

A: Absolutely. “Cerlox” is a brand name of plastic comb binding by a company called GBC (like “Band Aid” is for adhesive bandages). Our plastic comb bindings are the same 19 or 24 ring configuration

One of the helpful resources that CFS Binding Supplies works hard to provide is training content, especially for people that are new to binding and finishing their copied/printed projects. One of the tools that has been extremely popular is the Find-A-Bind Quick Reference Guide To Booklet Binding Choices

Downsizing – seems to be the theme of life since the Great Recession, right? My father would call it ‘right-sizing’, and I’d probably agree. We’re all trying to cram the same stuff into smaller spaces – trying to do the same work with fewer people. What a joy.

Last year, as part of our ‘right-sizing’