PERFECT BINDING MACHINE

PERFECT BINDING MACHINE

Perfect binding machine is a machine utilizing an adhesive to hold pages together. Perfect binding, also known as adhesive binding, applies an adhesive to the spine of gathered pages which, when dry, keeps them securely bound. Commonly, a soft paper or paperboard cover (or paperback) is attached over the binding adhesive. Perfect bound publications have rectangular backbones. Publications bound by perfect binding include paperback books, telephone books, catalogs, and magazines.

Function

It is used in fastening the book block to the cover spine in which the sections are rough-cut in the back to make them absorb the hot glue.

Pros (Advantages)

• It has stronger Bind
• Allows the book to “lay-flat”
• Quicker to bind
• Achieves a professional look for company brochures and catalogues.
• It Allows for larger bind

Cons (Disadvantages)

• Perfect Binding requires a thick layer of glue for larger binding.
• As Perfect Binding makes better binds with thinner, lower quality paper, it does not work as well with high quality paper or hardcovers.
• The bind is likely to give out under extreme temperatures like extreme heat or cold, so books that are in cars that are parked in the sun for too long will be damaged.