How to Build Your Own Notepads & Booklets

Building your very own notepads and booklets takes plenty of preparation and there are a few steps involved. Of course, the first step is to plan out and design the written content, typically on your favourite word processor using catchy graphics and photos, good font size and styles for printed materials, and choosing the right card stock (or just ordinary paper if you prefer).

Once it’s all prepared and ready to print, you’ll also need to consider how to bind the notepad or booklet together so that it appears clean and professional. Here are a few tips on how to achieve that:

Preserving the Written Word

There’s no understating just how tremendous some inventions have been on human society, particularly the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg back in 1440. Without it, would there even be mass literacy? Would there be any standardisation of language, first with Hochdeutsch (High German) and then all other languages touched by the printing press?

We’ve come a long way since then and it’s been nearly 600 years, but today we’re all reading and consuming the written word on our phones, laptops, and of course, good old-fashioned books. Notepads and booklets and other sorts of written materials still need to be bound with professional binding services, but techniques have changed quite a bit since the olden (and even pre-printing press) days of sticking animal skin parchments to one another in beautiful bibles such as the Book of Kells in Ireland.

Modern Book Binding for Modern Audiences

One thing that perhaps hasn’t changed much over the centuries, despite the rampant rise of consuming the written word digitally, is the tactile effect it has on reading a book or parsing through a notepad. The feel and touch of good quality paper can have a tremendous subconscious impact on how we interpret its contents, even if it really is secondary to the word itself.

Print on Demand offers various methods of binding together notepads and booklets. Some of the most common methods include:

• Perfect binding: commonly used for paperback books, perfect binding is the act of gluing together pages along a spine, thereby creating a uniform and presentable finish that is great for books with around a hundred pages or more.
• Saddle stitching: for smaller booklets where binding is impractical, saddle stitching is an excellent method of giving smaller booklets a clean, professional appearance whilst also being cost-effective. It involves stapling along the spine of the booklet.
• Coil (wire) binding: for manuals, reference materials, and workbooks, coil (or wire) binding stands out. This method involves wrapping coils and threading them through the pages. The coils can be plastic or metal and allow the booklet to be laid down flat.

How to Print and Bind Your Notepad or Booklet in Melbourne

From the methods of binding as well as for custom bookbinding, it’s important to choose a reputable print shop in Melbourne that understands your professional needs. Whether it’s for your own personal reference booklets or notepads, to sell as a product, or for internal or external business materials, getting the look right is critical for making a great first impression as well as leaving behind a booklet or notepad that feels great in the hand and reads well.

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