What are the binding methods of books

Depends on the binding method and form of different, divided into paperback, hardcover and wire binding 3 categories (there is also a paperback in the horseback binding as a separate category).

Bookbinding methods are wire binding, horseback binding, sewing binding, locking wire binding, adhesive binding and plastic wire stamping. Paperback books generally use paper covers, hardcover books and magazines more than hard cardboard for the book shell, and after decorative processing into the cover. Line is a traditional Chinese book binding form, in the finishing of ancient books, in addition to the use of flat, hardcover form, there are also some along the line of binding.

The production of paperback and hardcover books includes many forms of mechanization and linkage operations. The main production processes such as folding, page allocation, bookbinding, wrapping, book cutting and picking round, spine, shell, etc., there are special machinery. Various kinds of single machines between the relevant processes, such as bookbinding, wrapping, cutting, such as matching, bookbinding, wrapping and so on to form a linkage production line. Web rotary letterpress and offset printing machine or its folding mechanism, or with the folding machine linkage, the implementation of printing and folding linkage.

China in the 1960s, through the introduction and trial production, the establishment of the linkage, a higher degree of automation of the bookbinding linkage line, there are horseback binding linkage line, paperback binding linkage line, hot melt adhesive binding linkage line and hardcover binding linkage line, a large number of books, periodicals, an important means of publishing technology. 1985 the country's major book and journal printing plant production of bookbinding output amounted to 19,599,000 orders. Due to the complexity of the binding process, varieties of specifications and other reasons, certain auxiliary processes and specifications, special materials or batch of particularly small, there is a certain amount of manual work. Wirebound books due to the limitations of traditional methods, still using manual binding.

Modern bookbinding process to mechanization, linkage as the main direction of development. Since the 80's, the world's emergence of a variety of new binding machinery and linkage line combined with the application of electronic technology to further improve production efficiency and enhance quality control, to ensure that the yield.