Technical Corner - When size matters!

A guide to getting the right sized ring binder for your needs.

You need a ring binder, but you’re not sure what size. You don’t want a bigger binder than necessary and you want the finished product to look neat and well presented. Use this simple guide and get the right product for the right job.

What grammage paper are you using?
Most office environments use 80gsm (grams per square metre) or 100gsm paper. The weight is normally shown on the box. Printed promotional sheets tend to be on denser paper and high quality display sheets used in presentation folders have an almost card feel to them at 220gsm or higher.

Remember: the higher the grammage the thicker the paper.

 
How many sheets do you want to hold in your binder?
Fewer than 100 sheets in our popular 25mm mechanism will look out of place – cramming 500 sheets into a 15mm mechanism just isn’t going to happen. Use this simple guide to get the correct size for your needs.

                      15mm      25mm        40mm       65mm
80 gsm paper        150pp       250pp       400pp      650pp
100 gsm paper      135pp       225pp        350pp      575pp
120 gsm paper      120pp      200pp       320pp       520pp
160 gsm paper       90pp        155pp        250pp       400pp
220 gsm paper      65pp         110pp        180pp       290pp

February 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm | Newsletter Spring 2010 | No comment