Book Binding Styles

Alta Graphics offers a wide range of book binding alternatives ensuring that regardless of your books size, we can provide a professionally bound finished product. The industry standard is Perfect Bound Soft Cover. For books with smaller page counts, saddle stitching is another popular option. We also offer color coil binding and hard cover "case binding" which has advantages for certain books.

	Perfect Binding is the binding of choice for most book printing projects. It is used for most projects and can have a printed spine if your book is thick enough. This usually requires about 200 pages. Thinner books can be perfect bound but the spine can not have text in the design.
	Saddle Stitched booklets are the standard for thinner books usually up to about 48 pages. We can Stitch books up to about 60 pages but larger books tend to not lay flat tending to be "puffy" or wanting to open when on a table.
	Color Plastic Coil Binding is a popular option for some reference books because the coil allows the book to be opened farther and flatter than perfect binding and permits the reader to flip pages behind the book for a smaller footprint. Coils come in many colors so it is possible to design a unique color combination coordinating colors in the cover art. There is no printed spine so on a bookshelf you can not see what the book is like a perfect bound book.
	Hard Cover or Case bound books We offer full color hard bound coffee table books with laminated covers. Frequently people upgrade the inside to use coated inside paper and color printing for all or portions of the book.
	Dust Jacket Hard Cover We can Hard Cover Case Bind your book for use with a dust jacket like many hard cover books sold in book stores. We can even add foil stamping to the cover for a special finish for the "PERFECT" book!.