| Spiral bound printing is one of the common types of | | | | preferred as centralized printing facilities will have tight |
| binding for business documents. Unlike saddle stitch or | | | | quality controls in place vs. a local retail establishment |
| velo binding, it allows you to lay your document flat on | | | | that uses one person to print and collate, a process |
| a table and even turn the pages notebook style. | | | | that often leads to error. |
| There are many printing options available to a business | | | | Spiral bound printing is typically used in business |
| seeking to print business documents with spiral bound | | | | documents such as: presentations, booklets, reports, |
| printing, both in store options and online printing options. | | | | manuals, catalogs, and proposals. Beyond spiral, other |
| Each choice has positive attributes and negative | | | | types that have a similar look include twin loop and |
| attributes. | | | | comb. Twin loop printing and spiral bound printing will |
| Types of Printing Companies: | | | | have the most professional appearance while comb |
| 1. Offset Printers - This is the most common type of | | | | will look like a cheaper printing approach was used. |
| printing company. They tend to specialize in high | | | | While it could potentially be used in marketing |
| volumes of printing such as orders of 1,000 units or | | | | documents, spiral bound printing is primarily for large |
| more. They may offer some digital printing services | | | | documents, and marketing documents are usually |
| such as spiral bound printing, but it is not recommended | | | | smaller. |
| as they don't specialize in complicated documents that | | | | No matter what type of printer you choose, offset or |
| may require collation and tabs. This type of printer is | | | | digital, retail or online, ask for a free sample print to |
| found both online and at retail. | | | | judge price and quality. Not all printers are the same. |
| 2. Digital Printers - This type of printer uses the latest | | | | Ask for the published rate of quality so that you can |
| digital technology to product documents such as spiral | | | | compare error rates. Some retail printers have |
| bound printing, booklet printing and color printing. They | | | | reported error rates as high as 10% vs. online printers |
| are a preferred option for documents, since they | | | | that have fractions of a percentage error rates. |
| specialize in this type of work. An online option is | | | | |
