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Knowing the right information in advance can save you and your company a lot of wasted production time and headaches. When it comes to saddle stitching, keep a few general guidelines in mind to avoid complications during the manufacturing process. Here are three important but surprisingly often forgotten tips to remember when planning your next saddle stitched project.
 Folios
A basic rule of saddle stitching is to always keep your binding laps on the same side for all signatures. Usually, high folio binding laps jog to the head and low folio laps jog to the foot. This is true for all major saddle stitching equipment. For example, if you have a fold-out cover on a high folio side of a saddle stitch book, all of your binding laps should be low folio and jog to the foot. Unless special circumstances exist, make certain that your laps are of uniform size.
Use binding laps
Binding laps allow most signatures to be opened mechanically for high speed, low-waste production. The most common and efficient binding lap size is 3/8” (some use only 1/4”, but this can cause problems if there is any variation in size). The alternative is suction opening, which slows the process down at least ten percent, depending on the number of signatures. Suction opening requires a fold from the center to the outside of the folio, allowing suckers to open to the center.
Keep signatures and trims the same size
For best production, signature sizes and trims should all be uniform.
Inline solutions
At Rickard Bindery, we have experts on hand to help you with all of your binding needs, with a wide range of inline services such as wafer sealing, attaching, gluing, shrink wrapping and more.
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