Video Blog/Vlog

Perfect Binding

Why Perfect Binding Might be the Best for Your Project At Anstey Book Binding we are honoured to be Canada’s leading bookbinder. In business since

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Fan Binding

Fan binding as you can see in the video, the single sheets are fanned two ways and run over the surface of a glue roller. 

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O Rings

O rings are something you probably played with in public school!  We use them to bind books.  Silver and gold are standard colours.  Many other

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Lenticular

As you can see from my video and these pictures a “Lenticular” product is one of the most distinctive, customer engaging and memorable products that

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Decal Edges

The product for this week is “decal edges.”  Decal edges are “roughed” edged on special paper.  Pictures #1 to #4 show four different kinds of

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Imprinted Ribbons

We have installed a machine to imprint ribbons!  We can imprint ribbons in widths from ¼ inch to 2 inches; ribbons with dozens of different

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Round Books

Yes we can make round books.  Pretty much any sizes you want up to 14” across.  Cases can be padded, to have a foam feel

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Elastics

Elastics as you can see “book elastics” come in dozens of colours, different widths, and a few different “sewn patterns,” round or flat.  Elastics for

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Edge Painted Printing

I recently did a video about face printed books that are printed by a printer on an offset or digital press.  This video describes the

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Three Panel Cover

These pieces are memorable, unusual and user engaging.  I’ve said it in the past that “a genius is someone who knows the difference between a

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Binders

What I’m showing in this video and still pictures what are usually simply called a “Binder.”  An older but more descriptive term is “ring binder.” 

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Plasticoil

What is “plasticoil” binding.  Plasticoil binding is a plastic spring which is inserted into PUNCHED paper that has a line of punched holes.  Ninety-nine percent

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Sunken Labels

What are sunken labels (or embossed position)? Labels that are “sunken” or labels in a “debossed position” are labels (of any shape) that are glued

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Book in a Box

This project required creative input, a very fast turnaround and tremendous attention to detail. The image below shows a fabric casewrapped, casebound book that is

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Side Sewing

About a year ago, I did a blog posting on Side Sewing. I’m repeating the topic but not the details! For the past year, we

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Exposed Smythe

What are Exposed Smythe Sewn Books? This style of binding has no cover on the spine. One the spine, all you see is folded sections,

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