The production of manuals is no longer just for the
high-volume print house, nor do you need to spend a fortune on getting
them printed by High Street companies with their expensive setup costs
and minimum quantities. If you just want to print ten high quality
manuals to give away at a presentation or seminar then you want a quick
way of doing it that won't break the bank but also won't have you
thought of as a cheap outfit.
Fortunately there's a way you can
be professional and yet keep costs low. Moreover, left over manuals can
be re-used instead of finding their way to the skip or the storage
cupboard never to be found again.
For really short runs then the
ideal solution is a
comb-binder. These are machines that punch holes
into your paper (usually a number of sheets at a time) and then allow
you to easily thread a 'comb' (essentially a plastic spine) through the
holes to hold the paper together.
Although an extremely manual
method, for short runs this is an ideal solution and one that can be
utilised for manuals from twenty to over a hundred pages. The physical
size of the manual depends in full on the size of comb available but
the most common is A4 (or letter in the US). These comb-bound manuals
are absolutely ideal to give away at seminars and if more are needed
you simply print off more sheets and bind them.
For the
green-minded amongst you though, there is also the benefit of being
able to unbind the documents if needs be. For example, if you wanted to
add more pages or just re-bind an entirely new manual you simply slot
the manual onto the binding machine and release the comb.