coil bound books

What Gauge Thickness Are The Plastic Binding Coils?

Ever wanted to know the thickness of the plastic binding coils that you will be using for your booklets? Every once in a while we get a customer asking for this information, so we've put together a chart to show these measurements.

The following chart shows the thickness gauge for our most popular 4:1

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How To Quickly Insert Large Plastic Coils: SlanTIS Book Former Sleeves

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

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GBC ProClick Spines Just Added!

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

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2-Minute Tuesday: Samples Anyone? - Binding Supplies Samples

Are you a Costco shopper? I imagine that many of you are…but let’s be honest, how many of you shop at Costco for the free samples? Or maybe you go to Costco for the free samples, and then happen to buy something while you’re there. Sound familiar?
I’m as guilty as anyone – I may not need anything from

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2-Minute Tuesday: How To RAPIDLY Crimp Plastic Coil

Every year my wife and I send out Christmas cards to our friends and family and each and every year my ‘type A’ mind will over-process how we could improve our production efficiency. Do we individually stuff, stamp and seal in a progressive, buffet-style production line? Or is it faster to have one person

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6 Steps To Perfectly Crimped Coil Binding For Books

Just 6 simple steps will ensure a proper crimp on your coil bound booklets and save you a ton of rebinding headaches in the future. Watch the video clip below to see these steps in action and achieve plastic coil binding bliss.

Instructions For Right-Handed Users
1. For right-handed operation, hold the

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