Lay Flat Book Binding
Below are the various lay flat binding options.
Lay flat book binding. Ideal for difficult stocks and books subject to heavy usage. This enables a lay flat book using any single sheet binding method including eva and pur perfect binding. To save time hot glue is normally used.
Both sides of the book are completely flat. This cools down in minutes meaning many books can be bound in a short period of time. It has three clear advantages over perfect binding.
Masters bookbinding s bespoke layflat flat bookbinding printing services use the highest quality processes to achieve stunning results. One of the fastest and most secure way to ensure all the pages in a book stay together is by applying glue along the spine. With this type of binding visual information is not lost in the gutter and two page spreads are fully visible.
Lay flat binding is a new process which allows brochures to lay flat and images which can run over two pages without any breaks or matching issues. Lay flat perfect binding allows a book to open and lay flat without cracking the spine of the book. This means that images can be run across both halves of the spread interrupted by only a subtle fold line down the middle.
It s not a replacement for any of the lay flat binding methods you describe above but it does create a remarkably friendly book that can be easily made by almost any printer including the pod on demand book vendors. The 21 pocket binder has the lay flat binding capability. The layflat bookbinding technology is ideal for premium book on demand products such as photobooks or coffee table books.
Lay flat books open completely flat across the centre fold. This is the ideal binding method for high end exclusive and visual based printed brochures. However lay flat binding uses cold glue instead.