Binding & Finishing Services:

In addition to Risograph printing, we offer a small selection of in-house binding and finishing services. If you require finishing services that aren’t listed (perfect binding, comb binding, etc.) we’re happy to print your project and recommend other local binders/finishers who are able to accommodate your finishing needs!

Book Binding:

Saddle Stitch

Saddle stitching is our most popular book binding method. Folded sheets are gathered together and then stapled in the middle. This binding method is recommended for books that are 8-44 pages. Books with a larger page count may require spiral or perfect binding. We love saddle stitching for smaller zine projects, ranging from poetry chapbooks to tattoo flash books!

Spiral Binding

Spiral binding is an excellent way to bind books of all scales with loose pages. Books bound this way are able to lay completely flat. Plastic coils are available in a huge variety of custom colors, and we are able to special order the color of your choice. If providing your own coils, please take note that our hole punch for spiral binding utilizes a 3:1 pitch coil. There is no maximum page limit for spiral binding, and the size of the coil will increase with page count. Our favorite usage of this binding method is for our yearly calendar!

Finishing Services:

Trimming

We are happy to now offer trimming services! We recommend this service for prints with full bleed images, custom sized prints, multi-up prints, and for squaring bound projects. We have access to a large scale paper guillotine, which makes quick work of cutting prints down to size!

Folding/Creasing

We offer folding and creasing for any project requiring under 5 folds. Some examples are creating signatures for books or zines, folding greeting cards and envelopes, J-cards for cassettes, or inserts for CD cases.