Whether you’ve been homeschooling for years or have become a new homeschooler, you probably already know: Having the right homeschool supplies at hand is essential to a smooth day. After 7 years of homeschooling, running a homeschool group and helping run a co-op. I have found that this item is not spoken about too often.
The binding machine. Ordering curriculums to be bounded at the local Office Supply store can be costly. A Binding Machine can make the fear of binding multiple notebooks no longer a concern.
It has been used for curriculums, collecting art, presentations, and kids self made story books. Once you have one, you will realized how essential it is. It also helps keep your documents organized.
Let’s deep dive into all the different type of binding machines and what each one is for.
The Binding Machine
Types of Binding Machines:
- Wire Binding: A wire binding machine uses wire to bind documents and has the same punching process as other similar machines. This bookbinding machine is one of the more popular ways to bind thick to medium books.
- Tape Binding: Thermal binding machines don’t use wire to bind documents. Instead, they use heat to secure the plastic cover and the spine.
- Perfect Binding: Perfect binding is a process, commonly used by printers and bookmakers, where groups of pages are bound together using adhesive to create a clean, crisp and professional printed product.
- Velo Binding: Velobinding involves punching several small holes along the edge of an unbound book. A strip of plastic with rigid tines is inserted into the holes from the top of the book, and a strip with corresponding holes is placed on the back with the tines protruding through. The book is then placed in a machine that holds the book tightly while the excess length of the tines is cut and the tips melted to seal the bind.
- ProClick Binding: ProClick is a very practical and innovative book binding system developed by General Binding Corporation (GBC). Unlike most conventional binding methods, the ProClick system allows pages of a bound document to be removed, added, or rearranged with relative ease.
- Comb binding: involves a plastic comb to bind paper that usually has either 19 or 21 rings. They are best for thinner books that don’t have many pages as the plastic spines aren’t the strongest binding option. These binding machines work by opening the spines to insert pages and then closing them once all sheets are installed.
- Saddle Binding: The saddle stitch binding technique takes full sheets of paper, stapled together in the center. Then the book, including the cover, is folded in half along the line of the staple.
- Coil Binding: also known as spiral binding, is a commonly used book binding style for documents. This binding style is known by a number of names including spiral coil, color coil, colorcoil, ez-coil, plastic coil, spiral binding, plastikoil and coilbind.
PROClick Binding gets my TOP PICK for Homeschool Families!
Watch Video below for a quick demonstration on how to use a PROCLICK binding machine and assemble your notebook.
Why the ProClick P50 is a Homeschool Must-Have?
This GBC ProClick P50 Binding Machine has made our homeschool life so much easier and organized. The PROCLICK binding machine is compact compared to other binding machines. It’s easy to store and use! Nothing too complicated or intimating about it. I treat it like a simple hole puncher, placing 4-6 sheets at a time. Hold it steady with one hand, and using the other to apply pressure, I slide the rotary punching component. That’s all! The punch component will punch 32 holes in your documents. Then simply snap the GBC ProClick binding spine into place.
You can easily edit, add or remove papers. There is a tool that is sold to help you open and close the spine, I found it easy to open by just simply breaking apart. This is what makes this binding method my favorite. We all know that sometimes our kiddos can be rough or we simply forgot to print something. This makes printing and adding documents a possibility, unlike other binding methods. The ProClick Binding Spines can also be reused. If you are done with a presentation or notebook and want to recycle it. You can!!! Simply open you spine with adding pressure in the opposite manner of closing, and remove documents.
The binding capacity is 85 sheets on a 1/2 inch ProClick Binding Spine.
The punch component will punch 32 holes in your documents.
Small enough to store in a drawer or keep on your desk.
ProClick lets pages lie flat with 360° rotation for convenient note taking, photocopying and scanning.
