A cleaner, more professional look for your books – choose perfect binding rather than saddle-stitch.

Ziggi’s Print & Signs now offer Perfect Binding services!

Perfect Bound Books are pre-trimmed along the binding edge prior to gluing. This means the document is bound as individual pages, instead of as groups of spreads folded and collected using staples.

To achieve a cleaner, more professional look you may opt to burst or perfect bind a document rather than saddle-stitch. However, a minimum number of pages is required for burst or perfect binding before the spine becomes too narrow to provide adequate strength (usually, not less than 32 pages).

Perfect Binding is a widely used soft cover book binding method. With this binding method, the pages and cover are glued together at the spine with a strong yet flexible thermal glue. The other three sides of the book are then trimmed as needed to give them clean “perfect” edges.

Benefits of Perfect Binding

The primary benefits of perfect bound books are that they look professional and offer visual appeal, are less expensive to produce than hardcover books, and they stack well. Also, the square spinal edge formed by the perfect binding method allows for the book’s title or other information to be printed on the spine – something the saddle stitch and spiral binding methods do not offer.

Perfect bound books can be printed in short runs which helps cost-conscious businesses and organizations.