Box Carrying Handles

The world of Box Carrying Handles is huge, with handles ranging from light to heavy duty, plastic to leather, top and side mounted, etc. Whether you have a die cut box or case wrapped rigid box job, we can recommend the best carrying handles for the application and weight. The range of Box Carrying Handles is extensive:

Bracelet Handle

Braided Handle

Top Mount Elliptical Handle

Side Mount Elliptical Handle

Flat Handles

Post Handles

Soft Grip Box Handle

Box Carrying Handles

The image above shows the range of vinyl and leather wrapped handles, which can be customized for your needs.

Box Carrying Handles

The image above shows a selection of plastic box carrying handles.

Box Carrying Handles - Specialties Graphic Finishers

The image above shows a fabric sample sales tool with a foil stamped leather handle.

Book Binding Specialties Graphic Finishers

The image above shows a presentation box with a riveted plastic handle.

riveted black rope handle.

The slipcase shown above has a riveted black rope handle.

top mounted plastic elliptical handle.

The sales presentation box above is a perfect application for a top mounted plastic elliptical handle.

OVERSIZED WIRE-O BINDING

Wire-O binding

Most binderies offer Wire-O binding, but we push the limit with unusual sizing and materials! We can Wire-O bind books up to 1” thick. For small runs, we can punch Wire-O books as large as 3’ high x 4’ wide.

If you’re hearing, “Your book is too large”, “Your book is too thick”, etc. we’re the answer. Give us a call at (416) 701-0111 ext. 311 . . . we can help!

 

INNOVATIVE BINDING & FINISHING SOLUTIONS

INNOVATIVE BINDING & FINISHING SOLUTIONS

This week’s video is a blast from the past … all the way from 1982! This younger version of me believed in getting the job done right the first time, and we are still firm to that commitment today. Whether it’s Smyth sewing 20” wide books or accordion folding 44” x 80” sheets, we’re always finding new ways to push the limits in finishing.

Since 1939, Specialties Graphic Finishers has been known for our innovation, customized machinery and creative solutions. Recognized on both sides of the American-Canadian border for our quality and innovation, we have consistently been the leading recipient of many industry awards for outstanding achievements.

As one of North America’s premier graphic finishing houses, we offer a full range of services including:

  • Case Binding
  • 20” x 20” Perfect Binding
  • 20” x 20” Smyth Binding
  • 5/8” Miniature Folding
  • 44” x 80” Large Sheet Folding
  • Z-Fold Cards
  • Tag Stringing (Hang Tags)

Clear Plastic Box Lids

Clear Plastic Box Lids

We have a new machine! To supplement our box making services, we can now manufacture clear plastic box lids in a wide range of sizes … from 4” x 4” up to 14” x 14”! The clear plastic box lids can be made from a selection of gauges depending on the size of the lid and final use. If your client is looking for a simpler solution than a hinged lid or wants to display the box contents, then a clear plastic lid is the answer!

Clear Plastic Box Lids

Specialty Graphic Finishers

We can make clear plastic box lids to fit case wrapped rigid bases and die cut bases … and we do it all in house. Call us for an estimate to custom make clear plastic box lids for your box job!

HEXAGONAL BOX

HEXAGONAL BOX

I’ve featured Setup Boxes recently, a product I also call “chocolate boxes.” Well, this Hexagonal Setup box is unlike anything I’ve ever seen! Disclaimer: Our company did not produce this specific box, but we could easily make these using a combination of our machinery and hand assembly.

This Hexagonal Setup Box can be broken down into three components:

1. The Lid

2. The Four Interior Trays

3. Creased Multiple Panel Backer

HEXAGONAL BOX HEXAGONAL BOX

The Setup Box Lid has six sides and needs to be made by hand.

HEXAGONAL BOX

Producing the long creased wrapped Setup Box backer is done automatically on one of our casemakers (they produce more than book covers!). We can produce cases or covers up to 29 ½” long!

HEXAGONAL BOX

Next, hand work is required to produce each of the trays, so this step is the most time-intensive step. Once assembled, each tray is glued onto the long backer.

Do you have a box that needs case wrapping? Is it a small or large run? Give us a call!

 

CASE WRAPPED PRODUCT SWATCH BOARD

CASE WRAPPED

Case wrapping board isn’t just for hardback book covers. The product featured in this email is a Product Swatch Board, which would ultimately have metal door handles riveted on as a sales piece. We die cut, case wrapped and lined this Case Wrapped Product Swatch Board and then applied metal corners for durability. The client chose our company because we could do all 4 operations inhouse, which reduced the production time and cost.

CASE WRAPPED

CASE WRAPPED

CASE WRAPPED

Double Thick Covers

You’ve probably seen a die-cut “candy book” similar to this one. What’s interesting about this piece is only seen when you open the front cover.

If you look carefully, you can see that the cover of the “candy books” shown in the above two images is double thick and folded back on itself and surfaced glued. Essentially, the front cover is a 4-page folded back and glued on itself. The reason for this is so there can be copy/design on the inside of the cover without requiring printing on both sides of the stock! This saves printers a lot of time and money! We can produce a product like this at high speeds on one of our five fully automatic box gluers.

This type of “candy book” is unique because:

  1. The double thick cover/flap allows for more advertising space, while saving on printing costs. Talk to us about this design option when budget is a concern!
  2.  After picking up this “candy book,” the consumer will immediately notice the sturdy double thick glued flap.
  3. Like all unusual pieces, this product gets interest and has many applications!

Step Cutting

We are able to “step-cut”, as shown in pictures #1 and #2.  We step cut books that are already bound such as perfect bound books, saddle stitched or hard back books!  Pictures #1 and #2 illustrates “step-cut” books.  The “steps” can be of various widths and lengths.  Different from step-cutting is “face-cutting” illustrated in pictures #2 and #3.  Pages get progressively shorter towards the spine of the book resulting in “steps”.  For instance the first step might be 20 pages, the next step 42 pages, the next step 16 pages etc.  Pictures #5 and #6 illustrate “corner cutting”.  The “steps”, progress from the corner of the book.  In this instance the steps were on the lower corner of the English side and when you flipped the book over the “steps” were on the opposite corner of a different language!

 

Tipping

Tipping is the automated process of attaching (or gluing) something such as a card, pouch, folder, etc. to a larger printed piece called a carrier.  We only do difficult or unusual tipping jobs!  We have the machinery to do:

  1. Tipping 2 or 3 pieces onto one side of a carrier
  2. Tipping a piece onto both sides of the carrier
  3. Tip-ons (as pictured) that are filled with liquid or granular material
  4. We can tip-on a piece onto the pages of a saddle-stitched book.  For example, on a 12page saddles stitched book, we can tip a piece onto each of eight out of the 12 pages!
  5. We can tip-on products that have jagged or irregular edges
  6. Tip-on to a specialty folded carrier like accordion folders, gatefolds, etc.
  7. Tip-ons that are thicker than 40pt
  8. We can tip-on to a carrier sheet as large as 40” x 72” and fold and glue the sheet (carrier)

Companies that produce consumer products are going to ever-increasing lengths to get samples into the hands of consumers.  This is good news to the graphic arts industry because most of the product samples are tipped onto or inserted into a printed piece.  To facilitate this tip-on market, we use high speed, high-quality machinery to tip-on a variety of products, from gift cards and shampoo packs to envelopes and coupons.

  • Our machinery glues on and registers many pieces with ⅛” accuracy
  • The glues we use greatly reduces paper tear when the product is removed
  • We can fold carriers once or twice in-line after tipping
  • We can in-line glue carriers closed or add a clip/wafer seal

For tipping that is unusual please call us…we can help!

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tipping

Tag Stringing

We do tag stringing…lots of it!  As you can see from the pictures, we string round tags, undersized tags, booklet tags, oversized tags, extra long string loops.  Aside from the average sized tags, we can also automatically string tags that have been “riveted” with metal eyelets.  You can see from these pictures that we can supply a very wide range of string colours.  We can also supply string in two or three colours such as blue and red or white and black.  We also do “tag looping”.  This is an automatic process, it is similar to regular tag stringing in that the machine automatically inline punches that hole, but is different in that the string is “tied” at the hole leaving strands of equal length at either side of the hole.  This process allows someone to “tie” the string around a pipe, or handle etc.  In addition to tag stringing and tag looping we can also automatically “wire” tags.  As in the two previous processes a machine automatically punches a hole inline, then inserts, cuts and twists the wire into a “loop”.

TAG STRINGING

TAG STRINGING

TAG STRINGING

TAG STRINGING