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
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Allows book to lay flat – great for taking notes during the course or seminar
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Durable, plastic binding element doesn't get damaged in mail systems
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Coil ends are crimped to keep pages in and to prevent snagging or unrolling
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Standard colors are recycled plastic coils in black and white with 80% post-consumer waste
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45 colors are available
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Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 6" x 9", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 4"x 9" (other sizes available)
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Can include color divider sheets, index tabs and bleed tabs, plus a place to hold CDs
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Page counts: Maximum of 1,000 pages (500 sheets) of 50# offset stock or 750 pages (375 sheets) of 60# offset stock

Perfect Binding
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Professional appearance, low cost
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Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 7" x 10" and 6" x 9"
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Page counts: Minimum - 32 pages (16 sheets) Maximum - 1,420 pages (710 sheets)
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Can include color divider sheets, index tabs, bleed tabs and bind-in/tear-out CD sleeves

Saddle-Stitch
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Inexpensive, lay-flat binding for smaller page counts
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Common finished sizes: 8 1/2" x 11", 6" x 9", 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 4"x 9" (other sizes available)
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Page Counts: Maximum of 88 pages (44 sheets) if printed on 50# offset or 64 pages (32 sheets) if printed on 60# offset
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Can include color divider sheets and bleed tabs
3-Ring Binders
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White with clear view vinyl and inside pockets
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Lay-flat binding for larger page counts.
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Include all the color divider sheets and tabs you need
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Available in 1/2" to 3" sizes
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Round-Ring = 920 pages (460 sheets) while the D-Ring holds 1200 pages (600 sheets)
Economy Tabs
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Your most cost-effective choice for index tabs
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Clear mylar reinforced tab extension
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Tab printing in black only on one or two sides
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Body of sheet printing in black only on one or two sides
Deluxe Tabs
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Available in any option you can conceive
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Clear or color mylar reinforced tab and binding edge
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Prints black ink to full color on one or both sides of the tab extension and tab body
Bleed Tabs
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Printed in reverse (white on black) directly on the pages of your book
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Provides quick navigation between sections when users flip through the pages
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Reversed printing on right edge helps organize sections
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Keystone can typeset tabs for you
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A fraction of the price of index tabs