Star Print Brokers | Book Binding Styles

The cover is printed on a heavier weight
stock than the text. The cover can also be
art card, C1S, C2S, or cover stock. There
are several ways of binding perfect bound
books. We can also do a notched binding
or be Smyth sewn. PUR glue provides a lay
flat option for a soft cover book.

Perfect binding:
The spine roughed up and glued to the
cover.

Notch binding:
The spine has notches sliced into it and
glue is forced into notches.

Burst binding:
The signatures are perforated and glued.

The cover and spine are not separate. The
wire can be placed on the back cover next
to the spine or on the spine itself. The
spine conceals the wire. It is a good option
for a book that must lay completely the
spine.

A Note on

Endpapers

Endpapers

are also called

endsheets, or ends. They are the

papers that are pasted down to

the inside front and back cover.

They are required on the

construction of hardcover

necessary on soft cover books.

The material can be printed
paper, cloth, bonded leather,
imitation coverings to look like
cloth, leather or many other
textures.

Hardcover books can also be bound with
a square back. The illustration above
shows a round back. We also offer a lay
flat or hollowback binding.

More than one cover wrap may be used,
as in a as in a 3-way binding.

An example of a book's library binding or 3-way binding.

An example of a stand-up easel book with Wire-O binding

The endpapers are shown here in gray. They are pasted to the inside front and back covers of a hardcover book.

A softcover book example, (a paperback book or prefect bound).

3-way binding:
Similar to the 3-way
binding, but the
materials are sewn
together.

Soft Cover Books

Books with Soft
covers are most
often paperback
books, but any book
with a printed
cover and no
endpapers is a soft
cover book. The
printed text pages
are perfect bound.

Wire-O®
Wire-O bindings can be
hardcover or soft cover.

Wire-O® binding:
The title does not
show on the spine,
because there is no
spine on which to
print.

Wire-O® binding on
an easel:
The easel allows the
books to stand
upright. It can have a
hardcover or
softcover.

Endpapers can
be printed
paper can be
plain white or a
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Semi-concealed
Wire-O® binding:

The ABCs of book binding styles

Hardcover Books

Also called hard case
books, have firm,
thick covers on the
front, spine and back
of the book. The
boards are covered
with a cover wrap.