What's Your Best Bet In The Bindery?

When a saddle-stitched booklet or magazine gets too thick, pages can come loose and the product begins to fall apart, while perfect bound books can be hundreds of pages thick.

Durability is another major benefit of perfect binding. "The customer needs to look at the end use and the desired life of the product," explains Kerry Burroughs, division manager of book binding at Muller Martini, one of the world's largest producers of bindery equipment. "If it's a magazine and the life is one month, then saddle stitching is fine, but if it's a textbook and needs to last five years, then adhesive binding is necessary."