Hand Collating and Paper Drilling Services

These particular services are most often called upon in the preparation of information for ring binders. A printer will have printed the individual text leaves and also will have printed and die cut the index leaves which are usually on board and usually incorporate a thumb tag. Not all automatic collating machines are compatible with this mix and so it is often the case that contents of the ring binder have to be collated by hand. This is done in the time-honoured fashion of hand collating ie putting a stack of each leaf on a bench in sequential order, checking the sequence against a “bible” which the printer supplies and then walking around the benches picking up one sheet at a time until each book is completed.

From that point, the hand collated leaves have to be knocked up so that all the edges are good and straight and ready to have holes put in them for the binding rings. We have different paper drilling machines for this job which can drill 2, 3 or 4 holes. The machines take different sizes of drill bits in order to suit the ring mechanism in the binders. Once the hand collated sets have been drilled they are installed onto the ring mechanism, the binders are closed and then packed into suitable boxes.

However, not all of our paper drilling operation is given over to hand collations for binders. We still do quite a few luggage tags and swing tickets, for example, and there are other instances when we are asked to drill holes which are usually in association with our eyeletting services division.

Our popupmailers website features products that have been drilled and collated in order to make them. To see some examples of these products please click on swatch cards, shaped swatch cards, or bottle swatch cards.