Spiral Binding
Spiral binding (also known as wire binding, coil binding, wiro binding and wire-o binding) is a very popular and cost-effective binding method. Spiral bound documents are bound like a notepad with a wire insert threaded through small holes punched in the margin of the document.
Spiral binding allows your document to lie completely flat when open, making it great for cookbooks or instruction manuals when you need your hands elsewhere!
What is Spiral Binding?
Spiral binding is a binding type commonly used for a report or notebook, where a wire spiral is threaded through small holes punched into the pages of the document to fasten the pages together, along with the covers and sometimes an acetate outer cover. Doxdirect actually binds documents using wire binding, which is similar to spiral binding but rather than the wire being threaded through the pages like a coil, the pages are placed on a C-shaped wire spine which is then closed into a cylindrical shape to bind the document. This allows the pages to lie completely flat when the document is opened.
Options for spiral bound document printing
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Size / Orientation
A3 portrait or landscape
Left hand or top binding edgeA4 portrait or landscape
Left hand or top binding edgeA5 portrait or landscape
Left hand or top binding edge -
Paper
Black & White
80-300gsm (plain or satin)Colour
80-300gsm (plain or satin)Covers
Printed covers are 300gsm as standard and printed single sided -
Quantity / Pages
Minimum order
1 copySingle sided
1 pages to 300 pagesDouble sided
1 pages to 600 pages
Spiral binding uses
- Reports
- Presentations
- Accounts
- Brochures
- Dissertations
- Fitness plans
- Scripts and screenplays
- Draft novels
Spiral binding features
- Covers can be printed in either colour or black and white
- Covers are printed on 300gsm card as standard
- Plain white or black 300gsm card can be inserted as front and/or back covers
- A clear or opaque acetate outer cover can be added to the front or back of your document
- Contents can be printed in either colour or black and white
- Pages can be printed double or single sided
- Tabs can be inserted to separate sections or chapters