Re: Binding costs

[Sara Schertz <SSchertz -at- INTERFACESOFTWARE -dot- COM>]

Suzette -

What is cerloxing binding? My company is looking at alternatives for our
manuals, which really need to lay flat. We are currently using double-o
spiral bound, but it has two major disadvantages:
        Can't put on shelf and still see the book title
        Binding adds width to the book -- making it difficult to fit in
the box!!

Thanks,

Sara Schertz
Interface Software, Inc.
sschertz -at- interfacesoftware -dot- com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzette Seveny [mailto:sseveny -at- PETVALU -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 8:39 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Binding costs
>
>
> My rule of thumb has been that the type of documentation
> determines the
> binding.  If it will be referred to often, either a binder or
> cerloxing
> works best because it lays flat.  Cerloxing is actually not
> very expensive,
> and can usually be done inhouse.
>
> For more reference/technical types of documentation that are
> only referred
> to occasionally, some type of thermal or cloth binding, similar to the
> Docutech type, works well.  Again, not that expensive.
>
> Suzette Leeming
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Damien Braniff [SMTP:Damien_Braniff -at- PAC -dot- CO -dot- UK]
> Sent:   Wednesday, June 03, 1998 7:55 AM
> To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:        Binding costs
>
> Currently we supply the lit (reasonably largish manuals, 200+
> pages) in an
> A4 binder with dividers for each of the sections.  It's been
> a bit of a
> historical thing and been built up over the years.  Each
> section can "stand
> alone" and has it's own contents page where appropriate.  There is no
> overall contents apart from section titles and no index
> (doesn't make it
> very friendly).
>
> What I'm looking at is making each section a chapter and have
> an overall
> contents and add an index (as discussed before on the list -
> all in Word!).
> What has now been suggested is to either move to an A5 binder
> to make it
> more manageable (though harder to read) or to go the whole
> hog and have it
> bound as a book.  My main reservation is that we've had 3
> releases/updates
> in the last 18 months and I feel we'd need to sell a lot to
> make it worth
> while going to a bound book.
>
> Has anyone had experience of going down this road?  Pros/cons?
>
> TIA
>
> Damien Braniff
> Technical Author
> PAC International
>
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