At the The Finishing Point, we have a Wire Binding Machine for all purposes, budgets, and Solutions in partnership
with the world leading manufacturers such as Renz of Germany, James BurnInternational of France (JBI) and GBC of USA.
If we choose a wire binding machine from us, we range from simple manual desktop solutions aimed at infant and
secondary schools, mid-range machines aimed at Secondary and
Further Education facilities, copy shops, corporate print rooms and print companies, and
our high end machines which are aimed at print finishing companies, Universities, and larger corporate print environments. Any wire binding machine supplied by us are designed for heavy and constant use and will serve their owners
for many years, hassle free.
Finding the right Wire Binding Machine have always been a priority to meet industry standards. Available in 2 formats, our range of these machines are known as 3:1 (3 to 1) and
2:1 (2 to 1). These formats are simply abbreviations for 3 holes per inch and 2
holes per inch. Historically smaller
wire bound books used a 3:1 punching pattern which produced 34 holes down an A4
Length, 3:1 is used to wire bind up to 120 sheets of 80 gsm paper.
Larger books were therefore created using the 2:1 punching pattern which produced 23 holes down
an A4 Length, 2:1 is used to wire bind books up to 350 sheets and is, as standard, only available from size 10 which is around 135 sheets of A4 80gsm. These
patterns are purely for aesthetic reasons but are industry standard, hence why
if you own a 3:1 machine you can only punch and bind up to a maximum of 120
sheets using standard wires, it is the wire that restricts this not the
machine.
As a work around from
the standard wire binding formats described above, Renz developed the One Pitch system
which basically made 2:1 binding wires available for all book sizes, from 2
to 350 sheets or size 4 to size 24. By bringing this to the market, they enabled a
single machine whether manual or electric in the 2:1 format to produce all
sizes of finished book. Although the Renz One Pitch is classed as a premium
wire binding machine, the invention is very popular
within the Education and Corporate sectors for its convenience.