Hot Spot Printing offers a wide selection of bindery services to complement our printing, high-speed photocopying, color copying and digital imaging capabilities.

Most of the bindery operations are performed in-house at Hot Spot. Some specialty needs such as die cutting and foil stamping are sent to nearby trade binderys who have only other printers as their customers.

Hot Spot Printing offers the

• Booklet Making
• Collating
• Cutting
• Die Cutting
• Drilling
• Embossing
• Foil Stamping

following bindery services:

• Folding
• Laminating
• Numbering
• Padding
• Perforating
• Scoring
• Stapling

Color Coil Binding
This binding is a spiral plastic coil. The document is punched with four holes per inch. The plastic coil (which comes in many colors) is "spun" into the holes and trimmed and crimped. Plastic coil bindings work with documents up to 1-1/2" thick. Documents will lay flat when open.

GBC Binding (Plastic Comb)
This is the familiar plastic comb binding seen on manuals and instruction books. The combs come in a variety of colors. Hot Spot Printing stocks sizes up to 1" in black and white. Color combs and covers are also available. An advantage to this type of binding is that it is relatively easy to change pages at a future time. Documents will lay flat when open.

Booklet Maker
We have many projects that call for a saddle-stitched booklet. We've all seen these. They are made of folded sheets of paper with two or more staples ("stitches") on the spine to hold everything together. The booklets are placed over a metal plate called a "saddle" which is shaped like an upside down "V" when they are stapled. Hence, "saddle-stitched". The booklet can have heavier stock for the cover (which usually must be scored.... pre-creased for folding) or can use the same stock as the inside pages (this is called a "self cover"). The booklet maker staples the sheets on the spine, then folds the entire booklet at once. It will work for up to 15 to 20 sheets of stock (60 to 80 page booklet) with sheets sizes up to
11x17.

If you fold more than 3 or 4 sheets of stock in half, you'll notice that the inside sheets get pushed out the front of the book. That's called "creep". Booklets of more than a couple of sheets need to be trimmed on the edge of the booklet that opens. That operation is referred to as "face trimming". Note that the person laying out the pages for the booklet needs to take into account that those pages near the center of the book will need more margin for trimming!