For one thing, says Gary Griffin, print shop manager at Lincoln University, many times a job bound in plastic coil can't "do a 360 around the spine." For this reason, he says, it's not as easy to get the book to lie flat for a photocopy.
Steve Lindsay, a print shop manager at the Kansas Division of Printing, says that while his equipment allows a book to lie flat, it's virtually impossible to insert or remove pages. If a customer needs that capability, he direct them to a three-ring binder.
Coil For The Cost-conscious
For one thing, says Gary Griffin, print shop manager at Lincoln University, many times a job bound in plastic coil can't "do a 360 around the spine." For this reason, he says, it's not as easy to get the book to lie flat for a photocopy.
Steve Lindsay, a print shop manager at the Kansas Division of Printing, says that while his equipment allows a book to lie flat, it's virtually impossible to insert or remove pages. If a customer needs that capability, he direct them to a three-ring binder.