Which is the better option for Brochure binding, saddle stitched, perfect binding or wiro binding?
Well, it all depends on which best suits your needs, which usually comes down to your budget and the total amount of pages you’re dealing with.
Saddle stitch is ideal for brochures of 8-64 pages.
Saddle stitch binding is great for brochure designs of all kinds including corporate overviews, price lists, product brochures, look books, manuals, small catalogues, annual reports etc.
The most popular sizes to get printed are:
A4, portrait or landscape
A5, portrait or landscape
A6, portrait or landscape
DL (210 x 99mm or third A4) portrait
210mm square
Saddle stitch binding is the same as a stapled brochure, it’s just the printers technical term for it! It just refers to the method used to insert the stapling wire. They’re ‘stitched’ together using short lengths of metal wire, which are threaded through all the pages at the spine.
A saddle stitched brochure can only contain pages in multiples of four, as each leaf forms four pages. Saddle stitch Brochure Binding does have a limit. It cannot hold more than 64 pages in a Brochure. This though is dependant on the thickness of the paper used for the pages.
Perfect binding is ideal for brochures/publications from 40 to 240 pages.
Perfect binding is commonly used for magazines, brochures and thicker booklets and reports. It is generally the most expensive Brochure Binding option.
The most popular sizes to get printed are:
A4, portrait or landscape
A5, portrait or landscape
DL (210 x 99mm or third A4) portrait
210mm square
Perfect bound brochures are glued together rather than stitched together, with two pages to each leaf rather than four. This method binds your document together with adhesive along the spine to provide a smooth and stylish finish.
Wiro binding offers almost an unlimited amount of pages.
It all depends on the size of the wire loop, the bigger the circumference, the more pages it can accommodate.
Wiro bound brochures are perfect for look books, annual reports, note books, recipe books, price lists, catalogues, manuals, and other reference material where it’s necessary for readers to open and fold the book easily, as well as laying flat once opened.
The most popular sizes to get printed are:
A4, portrait or landscape
A5, portrait or landscape
A6, portrait or landscape
210mm square
Wiro binding involves gathering pages together, punching holes along their side and usually holding them together with a double wire metal spine for extra strength, but can also be just single wire or in plastic.
When it comes to making a decision on which type of brochure binding is best for you speak with expert brochure designers like us, call us on 024 7660 1351 or email info@core365.co.uk and we can help you decide!
