Binding Machine Can Cut Costs
Businesses can save between $150 and $1800 by binding their own proposals and documents with inexpensive binding machines. Using copy services and print shops for binding routine documents costs 100%-200% more than purchasing a binding machine and binding documents in house.
Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) November 25, 2005 -- For many salespeople and office administrators the last step in finishing a report or proposal is a trip to the local copy shop to get copies professionally bound. Unfortunately, with copy centers charging 100-200% markups on binding, most businesses avoid binding all but the most important documents. Most copy shops charge $3-6 to bind a report. With your own binding machine, it can cost as little as 5¢-25¢. For a business printing and binding 40 documents per month, that's a savings of $118 to $238 per month. With office grade binding machines ranging in price from $150 to $1,800, an investment in a binding machine pays for itself quickly and easily.
If binding machines are so inexpensive, why don't more businesses do their own binding? According to Lloydsofindiana.com's Jones, “Up until the last couple of years most businesses didn't have the ability to produce finished documents with color laser and ink jet printers. Now most businesses have at least one finish quality printer. ”
Selecting a binding machine is fairly easy. According to Garry Jones, owner of www.LloydsofIndiana.com, an online binding equipment dealer, “You only need to know three things: how often you will bind, how many pages you'll bind on average and what style binding you would like.” Binding machines vary by style of binding, capacity and ease and speed of use. Binding styles include plastic comb, wire spiral and plastic spiral being the alternative choices. Plastic comb binding is the most popular because it is easy to use and the least expensive. For higher capacity binding, plastic coil (think of a plastic version of a spiral notebook), and wire spiral binding machines are recommended.
Selecting the right capacity for your binding machine is easy. Each machine is rated for hole punch capacity and binding capacity. Office grade machines range in binding capacity from 20 sheets to 250 pages. “Ease of use really sets binding machines apart,” says lloydsofindiana.com owner Jones, “the easier to use a binding machine is, the faster the operator can bind documents. Lower priced units require more time and effort because you have to operate levers to punch the paper, feed the binding and close the binding, whereas top of the line binding machines are all electric and do most of the work for you.”
Business owners and office administrators interested in purchasing their own binding machine can find learn more about binding machines at http://www.lloydsofindiana.com.
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