FAQs - Binding and Finishing

What kind of binding services you offer?

Where do you source our binding inputs?

What facilities do you have for special binding jobs?

What kind of glues and other inputs do you use?

What systems of quality control do you for a binding and finishing job?

At what levels of production will you seek our approval?

What are the shipping options available?

1. What kind of binding services you offer?

Spiral binding, double wire binding, saddle/wire stitching/sewn soft covers, perfect notch binding, case binding with round back and flat back. For odd sizes or shapes, we provide manual services.

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2. Where do you source your binding inputs?

Cover cards and board, local and imported book binding, Grey board, Holland specialist covering material, PVC, article/limitation and real cloth and imported binding material like creped hollows, H/T bands, glues, gauge, etc..

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3. What facilities do you have for special binding jobs?

We have facilities for foil stamping, matt & gloss lamination, UV and aqueous varnishing, embossing, etc.

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4. What kind of glues and other inputs do you use?

Use Animal glue (Hot glue) in the Case making unit. Use both cold and hot melt glues for Soft cover binding and book block making. Cold glues are generally PVA adhesives.

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5. What systems of quality control do youhave for a binding and finishing job?

Quality check begins the moment the relevant materials of a title reach us. All materials received are checked for damages, missing components, special messages or instructions, feasibility of using a data supplied on disk, etc. Any discrepancy found is immediately conveyed to the client for fast action. The binding material is checked and shorted before going on to the next stage in binding. Quality controllers are present at all levels so that all components of the books/printed product is inspected before the product is actually put together.

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6. At what levels of production will you seek our approval?

Generally, we do not need clearance in binding but sometimes clients request cover proofs, or want to see printed laminated cases before the book is bound. This is possible. Normally advance copies are sent from the production run for clients to approve.

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7. What are the shipping options available?

Ports used are Mumbai Port and JNPT, Nhava Sheva, which is 200 kilometer from Mumbai. Customs clearance and containerization is done in New Delhi, which is a dry port. We maintain a frequency of sailing-2 vessel a week to Europe, US and Australian continents and a vessel a week for the African ports.