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The Perfect Solution

Saddle stitching isn't right for every job. Sometimes perfect binding is the only way to go.

Warren Fraser, manager of printing services at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, has been using Powis Parker's Fastback document binding system for about three years.

"We love it because we have a DocuTech, and so it's a way to get off-line tape binding when you are putting process color covers on," Fraser says. His in-plant uses the system for reports, course syllabuses and short-run color jobs. "The advantage of the Fastback over the DocuTech inline is that it will bind up to 11⁄2˝," Fraser notes.