“This is especially challenging when the design features tight registering borders, pages that spread across the spine or bleeds.
How much narrower, again, depends on the weight of the paper and the number of pages to be saddle stitched. That means that pages 24 and 25 will end up being narrower than the final trim size of 8.5. When the bindery goes to make that final trim, all the pages need to end up being flush along the face (the face is the open front edge of the stitched piece). The heavier the paper and the higher the page count, the more pronounced the effect. This “creep” happens because the bulk of the paper along the folded edge to be stitched takes up space and “pushes out” the inside pages. After the binding signatures have been nested one inside the next, the centermost pages, 24 and 25 in this example, will stick out the furthest beyond the front and back cover. Imagine saddle stitching a magazine that is 48 pages with the pages being 8.5 inches wide left to right (or bound edge to opposite side unbound edge). “In saddle stitching, the inside pages of the book are a bit narrower than the outside pages,” explains Stuart Slater, director of business development at Contemporary Graphics. If you take a close-up look at a brochure bound this way, you will notice something very distinct.
That Creeping Feeling that Something’s Not Right Starting with as little as eight pages, this form of binding is suitable for brochures made of the same weight sheets inside and out (self covers) as well as those that have a thicker cover and thinner inside text pages (plus cover). The pages are printed, saddle stitched and then trimmed to size. Saddle stitching is the most basic, inexpensive and commonly accepted form of binding for periodicals, booklets, catalogs, etc. The final step is to trim the excess paper away along three sides (top, face and bottom) leaving the final finished size. 😉 Printed, folded forms are opened at their centers (half the pages on one side and half on the other side) and then gathered or nested together – each form falling on top of the next in proper order while riding along a chain.īy the time the gathered signatures reach the end of this moving conveyor style line, they are stitched with wire (stapled) while resting on top of what looks like a metal saddle. SADDLE STITCHING – Saddle stitching is simply a printer’s term for stapling. You will commonly hear the “under 48 always stitch” and “over 96 perfect bind” rules of thumb.īut what rule applies to catalogs and booklets that fall between 48 and 96 pages? Does the rule of thumb always apply? SADDLE STITCHING Many times the method of binding will be determined by the page count. Think of the bowing as love handles 😉Įven though it might look like a brochure or catalog is made from a stack of loose pages, usually multiple pages are printed on a much larger sheet – the signature – which, when folded, fall in order and become part of your catalog or brochure. The downside, though, is that it also looks the part, and at 48 pages, showed the distinct tendency to not lie completely flat when closed – sometimes referred to as a “bow” in the middle. For one, it is less expensive and secondly…it is less expensive 😉 Now there are perfectly good reasons why the museums would have switched to saddle stitching.
The difference: After years of perfect bound, coffee-table-worthy editions, I had received a saddled-stitched issue – a cheap imitation of its old self. Then it hit me: the latest issue of Fine Arts magazine, the magazine for the fine arts museums of San Francisco, was somehow bulkier around the middle and didn’t look as sophisticated as it used to. The paper? Something was different, but …
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