Manuals / Binding Options

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As far as materials, we offer eco-friendly, affordable options to help you create functional training and new hire manuals to equipment and procedure manuals. Choose from a wide range of binding options that fit your needs. Your Keystone team is standing by to guide you to the best solution for your individual needs.

Plastic Coil

  • Allows book to lay flat – great for taking notes during the course or seminar

  • Durable, plastic binding element doesn't get damaged in mail systems

  • Coil ends are crimped to keep pages in and to prevent snagging or unrolling

  • Standard colors are recycled plastic coils in black and white with 80% post-consumer waste

  • 45 colors are available

  • Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 6" x 9", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 4"x 9" (other sizes available)

  • Can include color divider sheets, index tabs and bleed tabs, plus a place to hold CDs

  • Page counts: Maximum of 1,000 pages (500 sheets) of 50# offset stock or 750 pages (375 sheets) of 60# offset stock

 

Perfect Binding

  • Professional appearance, low cost

  • Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 7" x 10" and 6" x 9"

  • Page counts: Minimum - 32 pages (16 sheets) Maximum - 1,420 pages (710 sheets)

  • Can include color divider sheets, index tabs, bleed tabs and bind-in/tear-out CD sleeves

Saddle-Stitch

  • Inexpensive, lay-flat binding for smaller page counts

  • Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 6" x 9", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 4"x 9" (other sizes available)

  • Page Counts: Maximum of 88 pages (44 sheets) if printed on 50# offset or 64 pages (32 sheets) if printed on 60# offset

  • Can include color divider sheets and bleed tabs

 

3-Ring Binders

  • White with clear view vinyl and inside pockets

  • Lay-flat binding for larger page counts.

  • Include all the color divider sheets and tabs you need

  • Available in 1/2" to 3" sizes

  • Round-Ring = 920 pages (460 sheets) while the D-Ring holds 1200 pages (600 sheets)

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Economy Tabs

  • Your most cost-effective choice for index tabs

  • Clear mylar reinforced tab extension

  • Tab printing in black only on one or two sides

  • Body of sheet printing in black only on one or two sides

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Deluxe Tabs

  • Available in any option you can conceive

  • Clear or color mylar reinforced tab and binding edge

  • Prints black ink to full color on one or both sides of the tab extension and tab body

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Bleed Tabs

  • Printed in reverse (white on black) directly on the pages of your book

  • Provides quick navigation between sections when users flip through the pages

  • Reversed printing on right edge helps organize sections

  • Keystone can typeset tabs for you

  • A fraction of the price of index tabs

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