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  • Six Things You Should Know Before You Buy a Coil Binding Machine
    Spiral coil binding is one of the most popular binding styles available on the market. The flexibility that it offers along with the huge number of colors that are offered in coil binding supplies make it a favorite binding style for all types of organizations.
  • The Strengths and Weaknesses of Pouch Board Laminators
    This article is written to help the reader decide if they really are in need of a pouch board laminator. This article reviews what it is that pouch laminators do for the user, and points out the strengths and weaknesses of the product.
  • Using Your Unibind Machine with Thermal Binding Covers or Thermal Binding Glue Strips
    I will often have customers call me to ask whether you can run Unibind covers in a thermal binding machine and whether you can run thermal binding covers in a Unibind machine. It is possible use your Unibind machine along with thermal binding covers or with covers that you have created yourself with thermal binding glue strips. Here is how.
  • How to Bind Documents With Velobind Hard Cases
    This article has a simple three step process intended to help the reader use a GBC Velobind binding machine to easily create hard case covers.
  • Understanding the Difference Between the Four Different Types of GBC Velobind Strips
    Shopping for Velobind Binding strips can be very confusing. Many people have seen the Velobind product but don't realize that there are actually several types of Velobind strips. This article is designed to provide a quick overview of the four main types of Velobind Strips.
  • How To Debind Velobind Bound Documents
    One of the biggest selling points for the GBC Velobind / SureBind strip binding systems is their security, but because the security provided can become a problem if you ever need to add or delete pages from your document, GBC developed the Velobind / SureBind debinder tool.
  • Using Your SureBind System With Your Plastic Comb Binding Punch
    SureBind was designed to be compatible with GBC Plastic Comb Binding systems. This means paper and covers can be punched on any GBC Plastic Comb Binding punch, and bound using the SureBind System; which increases production by gaining higher punching capabilities, and allowing two operators to work at the same time.
  • Exploring GBC Strip Binding Supplies
    This article goes over the line of GBC's strip binding supplies, focusing on their elegant and professional look and the simplicity of their design.
  • GBC SureBind An Introduction to Strip Binding Systems
    This article gives a background and information on the velobind and surebind methods of strip binding while also highlighting the main differences between the two types of strip binding systems.
  • Exploring the Options in Poly Binding Covers
    Sometimes there are so many different options in binding covers that it can be difficult to know what cover might be best for you. This article is designed to help you understand the different options available in Poly Binding covers, their thicknesses, patterns and available colors.
  • The Advantages of GBC Premium Long Side Sealed Letter Size Laminating Pouches
    This article was written to highlight the advantages of using GBC's letter size laminating pouches, focusing on the help ot provides with document alignment and productivity.
  • Writeable Laminating Pouches To Protect Your Documents
    Lamination is the perfect solution for protecting your documents from becoming damaged. However, sometimes it would be really nice to be able to write on your laminated documents. The glossy finish that you get with most laminating pouches makes this very difficult. However, there are now pouches that allow you to write on the finished surface with a regular ball point pen.
  • Understanding the Different Types of Copier Tabs
    Many of the newer photocopiers on the market have the ability to accept and print directly onto index tabs. However, in order to select the correct type of indexes for your photocopier there are several different things that you must first understand. This article is designed to provide a quick overview of the different types of copier-tabs on the market.
  • Questions to Ask When Choosing a Pouch Laminator
    This article gives questions to the reader that should help them decide what kind of pouch laminators would be their best choice, asking things such as what size of documents will be laminated and what thickness of laminating pouches will be used.
  • Plastic Comb Binding Isn't Just Black and White Anymore
    This article was written to remind the reader that many other colors besides black and white exist in the plastic comb binding world, and that these colors mayb be just what you're looking for when trying to add to your presentation.
  • Six Steps for Operating a Fixed Die Modular Comb Punch
    This article provides a set of simple steps for using a fixed die modular binding punch.
  • Lamination Sensation: Enhancing Your Documents with Laminating
    Whether it's for presentation or preservation, it makes no difference. Laminated documents are always more impressive and more durable than any old piece of paper. Colors are brighter and the pages are cleaner. The laminators that make this possible utilize several different modes to get the job done.
  • Paper Cutters: A Quick Solution for an Impressive Presentation
    The most prevalent of all office machines is probably the paper trimmer. These are common in schools, small offices and other establishments. Paper trimmers and paper cutters are often confused with one another. Paper trimmers can handle a small volume of work, while paper cutters deal with larger numbers.
  • How to Use Spiral Coil with Your GBC Proclick Machine
    This article describes the way in which you can now use coil binding spines in your GBC Proclick binding machine, providing many more options for the user than the two colors and sizes that were originally created for these machines.
  • Using Clear Covers or Poly Covers with Unibind SteelBack Binding Spines
    This article describes the types of covers that ARE and are not compatible with the Unibind SteelBack spines in order to save the user the risk of melting the covers or their document.
  • Binding Machines that Make a Good First Impression
    Small business owners and large corporations want to appear professional. One of the best ways to do this is to always make sure business materials are polished inside and out. Annual reports, sales proposals, presentations and employee manuals are just a few of the documents that require a little bit of special attention when it comes to presentation.
  • Binding Calendars with Twin Loop Wire and Calendar Hangers
    This article provides quick and easy instructions for the creation of your own calendar hangers with a twin loop wire binding machine.
  • Using a 2:1 Pitch Wire Binding Machine To Bind Small Sized Books
    This article describes the ways in which you can use a 2:1 Wire binding machine to bind a variety of different sized books, as opposed to only being able to bind books between the sizes of 5/8" to 1-1/4" thick.
  • Choosing a Twin Loop Wire Binding Machine
    Twin loop wire (also known as Wire-O) binding provides an exceptionally elegant and professional looking solution for report and proposal binding. Perhaps you have seen proposals that have been bound with wire binding and would like to try wire binding in your office. This article is intended to give you a few tips to help in deciding what wire binding machine is best for your needs.
  • Understanding the Different Pitches of Color Coil Binding
    More than 90% of the coil bound documents that you see on the market are bound with 4:1 pitch color coil binding. However, there are actually several different pitches coil available for coil binding. This article will provide a quick overview of the major different options for spiral coil hole patterns and their applications.
  • Tips and Tricks for Binding Thick Documents With Color Coil Binding
    This article provides some tips and tricks to make binding large documents with color coil binding an easier and less time consuming, providing hints such as matching the spine to the curve of the coil binding and to consider using an oversized oval hole pattern.
  • How to Use Color Coil Binding Hand Crimpers
    This article provides easy, step by step directions for using color coil hand crimpers to increase the productivity and to decrease the frustration of the user.
  • How To Bind Documents with Color Coil Binding
    This article offers information on how to bind your documents with a Color Coil binding machine, going over the selection of the proper size of coil, starting the binding process and crimping the document.
  • Addition and Deletion of Pages in Thermal Bound Documents
    This article provides a brief step by step guide to adding or deleting pages within your thermal bound documents allowing you to correct errors or make editorial additions/deletions.
  • A Step By Step Guide to Thermal Binding
    The purpose of this article is to guide you on how to properly bind a document using a Thermal Binding machine. If you have access to 5 or 6 thermal binding covers, follow through these binding instructions.
  • Using A Hard Cover Crimper for Binding Hard Cover Books
    When binding hard back books with a thermal binding machine the final step is to place the cover into the hard cover crimper and tighten it down. Although this step is unnecessary when using standard thermal binding covers, it is very important when binding hard cover books. The hard cover crimper accomplishes several important tasks that are essential in providing a high quality finished book.
  • Introducing Five Styles of Presentation Binding
    This article describes five different types of binding ststems available on the market. These five systems include: Twin Loop Wire Binding, Plastic Spiral Coil Binding, Plastic Comb Binding, Strip Binding and Thermal Binding.
  • How To Make Your Own Perfect Bound Document With A Thermal Binding Machine
    This article provides steps to creating a perfect bound book with a thermal binding system, a less expensive and easier way opposed to using the true perfect bound book binding systems to create a perfect bound book.

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