Desktop binding: a novel approach to booklet making hardware

Steven W. Trovinger

doi:10.1117/12.643224

10 February 2006 Desktop binding: a novel approach to booklet making hardware

Steven W. Trovinger

Proceedings Volume 6076, Digital Publishing; 60760P (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.643224
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

A low cost method and device for creating saddle stitch bound booklet documents is described. The device allows saddle stitch bound documents to be made using a unique low force method that avoids the issues and limitations found in commercial booklet making hardware. Typical commercial devices use high force industrial equipment that are physically bulky, unsafe, and expensive. The approach detailed here utilizes precision, light force, sheet-wise operations on individual sheets of paper to produce saddle stitch booklets, leveraging knowledge in precision paper handling and positioning. This method facilitates bound document creation with hardware that is compatible with common desktop and workgroup printer's sheet-at-a-time printing processes, but at a fraction of the cost of comparable commercial binding hardware. This platform enables the final part of the promise of desktop publishing.

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Steven W. Trovinger "Desktop binding: a novel approach to booklet making hardware", Proc. SPIE 6076, Digital Publishing, 60760P (10 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.643224

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