How to Bind Documents with Four Pin Velobind Strips

For businesses who like the look of documents bound with traditional hot knife Velobind systems but don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on a binding machine GBC four pin reclosable Velobind strips are idea. Likewise, four pin reclosable Velobind strips are also ideal for organizations that own an 11 pin Velobind binding system but need the ability to easily add and remove pages from their documents. Four pin Velobind strips are easy to use, look great and provide a wonderful economical for binding your documents. This article is designed to provide a quick and easy how to guide for binding documents, reports and presentations with reclosable Velobind binding strips.

1. The first step for binding documents with reclosable Velobind strips is to prepare your document. After you have printed the pages for your document you need to assemble it along with any index tabs, inserts and binding covers that you intend to use. Remember that since the Velobind strips are only available in 11” lengths that you will not want to use oversize binding covers with your document.
2. After you have assembled your document you will need to punch the document. There are three primary options for punching your document. You can use a four pin Velobind punch such as the Velobind V110e electric punch. You can use an 11 pin hot knife Velobind punch (these start at about $1000). Although the Velobind hot knife system will punch 11 holes, the four pins will line up with four of the holes in the punch pattern and the binding strip will hide the rest of the holes. Alternatively, you can buy Velobind prepunched binding paper and covers and print directly onto the pages so that you don’t need any binding machine at all.
3. After the document is punched, it is time to apply the binding strips. Velobind four pin strips come in two parts (a binding comb and a receiving strip). The easiest way to bind documents with four pin strips is to start with the binding comb and insert the pins through the holes of the document. It is important that you start inserting the pins through the front of the document so that finished side of the binding strip faces up when you look at the front of your document. After inserting the comb through the holes of the document you need to flip the document over and place the receiving strip onto the back of the book with the pin sticking through the holes in the strip and the grooves facing outward.
4. The final step in binding the document is to snap the excess part of the pin that is sticking out of the back of the receiving strip into the grooves. Each four pin Velobind binding machine comes with a special tool that is designed to help you knock the pins down into the receiving strip. This small gray tool can also be used to debind documents for editing. If you don’t have one of these tools, you can simply use your fingers to bend the pins over and snap the pins in place.

Binding documents with four pin Velobind strips is very easy and unlike documents bound with a hot knife system you do not have to cut the strip apart to edit the document. Following the above four steps it should be very simple to bind documents using reclosable Velobind strips.

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Written by Jeff McRitchie
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