Binding Books?

Question

I need help on binding books! Is there anyway you can help me on to telling how to bind a book.

Answer 1

May be this will help...

Answer 2

I'm not sure exactly what you want to know. I used to work in the bindery department for a printing company- most of the work was for the Big Three domestic automakers here in the Detroit area; I have also worked as a courier, office clerk, proofreader, customer service rep/order writer, etc. for a couple different printing companies. Part of my job while working in the bindery depatment was to run the bindery machine that would produce manuals, etc.; there were a variety of different equipment and methods to produce a book, manual, pamphlet, etc depending on what exactly the finished product was to be, how much money the customer wanted to spend, etc.
Printing presses, that range from simple l color black and white capability to presses that are capable of the full spectrum of colors (ie pictures), large copy machines, die cutting and cutting/knives equipment, machinery that collate pages or sections of books together (often that was done by hand walking around a table and hang-gathering/assembling the various pages), equipment that folds paper and printing materials, stitchers/high powered staplers to staple pages together, equipment that would shrink-wrap a protective plastic "bag" covering around a book or bunch of books to help protect them from damaging during shipping, etc would all be used.
The book binding machine that I operated was capable of performing many steps at once. I would receive the books, pamphlets, manuals, etc that were already printed (and the pages were all organized, etc) from off of a computer/printer (sometimes from a printing press or from pages that were assembled in order by hand). From there, I would normally take the "books" and place front and back covers on them (these were just for simple booklets/manuals, etc- a hard cover-book would require different equipment and processes that I am unfamiliar with). After assembling the covers, the books would be slid through the (Parker or Perfect)binder machine (@ different methods/machines); the machine would then stictch/bind the pages and covers together and normally would add some tape along the entire spine of the item to enhance the look and bind it further. From there, I would usually take the rough books over to a knife/cutter and either trim the edges of the book to remove the tape hanging from the ends (and also to get the item to the proper size and to also remove any unsightly rough edges around the ends) and/or often manuals would be produced so that many were duplicated on a page and then I would need to cut apart the piece that had been bound in order to produce 3 -4 individual booklets, etc.
Anything more specific that you need to know,feel free to e-mail me or message me with more specific questions. Please be advised, that I may not get back to you for a couple days or until the following weekend; I've been fairly busy lately and unable to spend time on Answers.