Which kinds of text binding

Divided into paperback, hardcover and wire binding 3 categories.

1, paperback

Also known as simple binding, is summarized in the package and the advantages of wire binding after the reform of a common form of book binding. The main process includes folding, matching pages, stapling, wrapping the cover and cut light book edges. General use of paper covers. Methods are simple, low-cost, suitable for books with fewer pages and larger print runs.

2, hardcover

is a bookbinding technology, hardcover is divided into full paper hardcover, paper cloth spine hardcover, full material hardcover. The three hardcover styles have round and flat spine two forms.

Hardcover books are mainly in the book cover and the spine of the book core, the book corners of a variety of modeling process made. Processing methods and forms, such as the core of the processing of the round back (from the ridge or not from the ridge), square back, square corners and rounded corners, etc.; cover processing is divided into the whole face, face, square and rounded corners, foil stamping, hot stamping patterns, and so on.

3, wire binding

is one of the methods of bookbinding. Its distinctive feature is the binding of the book line exposed outside the book. Line binding is China's traditional binding method, and the introduction of foreign "foreign" books as opposed. Binding will be printed pages according to the center seam folding, so that the mouth of the book is aligned, before and after the book plus cover, eyelet threading into. Threadbare books are only suitable for soft cover, and each book should not be too thick, so a threadbare books are often divided into several books, dozens of books.

So people put each book plus a book letter (made of cardboard and cloth book cover), or with the top and bottom of the two boards bound by string, in order to protect the books. Thread-bound books prevailed in the Ming Dynasty after the Wanli years. It was developed from the butterfly binding and backpack binding.

Expanded Information

The difference between paperback and hardcover:

The production of a book will have two parts, printing and binding, for hardcover books and paperback books, the printing process is the same, there is no difference. Just hardcover books require better quality, so the paper used will generally be better (such as thicker, more upscale), while the paperback book with ordinary paper can be.

And then in the printing process, the printing staff will pay extra attention to the printing quality of the hardcover book, will be extra careful to control the quality, such as color, overprinting, dirty spot control, and so on. And paperback books can be printed according to general quality standards.

The main difference between hardcover books and paperback books is the binding. Paperback is our usual general use of the book, such as textbooks and so on, generally using the binding process, that is, with special binding glue will be the book of the inner pages of the printed sheets glued together, and then glued together with the cover can be, generally with a special binding machine.

The cover is a general coated paper, thicker than the inner pages, the whole book can be bent, can be held in the hand. And hardcover books are generally used to lock the inner pages of the line process, is to use the line to lock the inner pages together, and then glued, which is stronger, do not love to fall off the page. Covers are generally cardboard, the beautifully printed thin paper glued to cardboard to form a book cover, and then the inner pages are glued to the book case.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Threadbare

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Paperback