Binding

Wire Binding

Wire Binding offers a professional, top-quality bookbinding finish that is permanent and secure. It is also known as Twin Loop Wire, Double Loop Wire, Double-O Wire, Ring Wire, Wiro or Wire-O, Spiral-O, Spiral-O, Wire, Open Flat Wire and Wire Bind.

Wire Binding uses metal C-shaped wires that are threaded through the holes of a document and then squeezed closed to form an 'O' shape keeping the document pages firmly in place. Wire loops come in a variety of sizes to accommodate books of varying thicknesses. The thicker the book, the larger the wire gauge and loop diameter must be for proper function and aesthetics.

Benefits

A popular choice for reports, workbooks, journals, catalogues, brochures, instructional books (e.g., training guides, course notes), cookbooks, music books, legal documents, maintenance manuals, swatch books, notebooks, diaries, and booklet-style calendars.

Wire Binding is an affordable choice for small to mid-sized projects and is great for documents that require durability with frequent opening and handling. Wire Binding easily accommodates low or high page counts, including tabs and pockets of varying thicknesses.

The bound pages rotate 360 degrees around a wire spine, which means that the document can fold all the way back upon itself, requiring minimal space on a table. Pages flip with little resistance and stay put without being continually held open to view the contents. The pages can be viewed side-by-side on a flat surface for ease of reading.

Wire binding is a great option for quick production runs. It is a mostly straightforward process that requires no adhesives, folding or complex preparation.

Specifications

Twin Loop can bind documents from smaller than A6 to A3 long edge for pages up to 35mm thick and A2 long edge (594mm) for pages up to 12mm thick.

When setting out your pages, it is good practice to keep all text or images at least 10mm away from the binding edge to not cut into when the holes are punched into the pages.

A fashionable variation of Wire Binding is Half-Canadian Binding or Full-Canadian Binding, which provide for a half or full wrap of the book front cover around the wire spine.

In addition to booklets, Wall and Desk (Tent) Calendars are created using the Wire Binding method to flip pages easily. The lack of spinal tension allows wall calendars to hang flat against the wall. Twin Loop can assist with both types of Canadian Binding and Calendars.

Colour choice: black, white, silver, and dark blue. If you have a special request, please let us know.

Safety: It is a priority for Twin Loop binding that we comply with all standards. Our wires are nylon coated to minimise scuffing and have been tested and comply with Australian standards for safety in children’s toys.

Set Up

Refer to the Set Up Guides section of this website for advice on preparing your document.

Turnaround & Delivery

Wire Binding is a great option for quick production runs. It is a mostly straightforward process that requires no adhesives, folding or complex preparation. If you need your delivery in a hurry, reach out to Twin Loop today, and we will find a solution to meet your deadline.

Request a Quote

We stand by our excellent customer service and look forward to assisting you with your binding job.

The Express Quote form - on the menu bar above - guides you through the information needed for us to prepare your quote request. Provide as much information as you can, and we will be in touch shortly to discuss.

Optional Extra’s

If required, we offer a range of Covers and Backing Boards, so please let us know if we can assist.

Binding Supplies and Accessories

Did you know that we offer a quality range of machines and supplies for your in house binding projects? Shop today for prompt delivery.

Specialised Services

Comb Binding

Half Canadian & Full Canadian

Case Binding - Hardcover Books

Plastic Spiral Binding

EVA Perfect Binding - Softcover Books

Desk & Wall Calendars

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What our clients say

'We at Sydney DPS have been dealing with Twin Loop Binding for more than eight years and have always found them to be professional and easy to deal with. We trust them with all our perfect binding work and wire binding and have 100% confidence that they will take care of the job and provide a quality and affordable end product. We have no problem in recommending them to our colleagues.'

DPS

'Twin Loop Binding are a reliable and reactive business partner, that work with us to ensure our client’s needs and deadlines are met. Twin Loop not only fulfil most of our book binding requirements, but also provide us with consumables such as binding wire, coil and plastic and also laminating and cello films so we can do our own book binding as well as servicing our machines.'

Print Media Group

'Twin Loop Binding is a professional and efficient organisation dedicated to delivering high quality print finishing with amazing service. Twin Loop provides us the ability to manage our capacity by delivering jobs on time and at competitive prices. This enables us to focus on delivering the very best print products to our customers.'

Minuteman Press - Randwick

'It is not often you come across a supplier that you can just send the work to and you know the job will be completed when you require it, every single time. Even in peak times like December, those almost impossibly short timeframes are completed without fuss.'

Springwood Printing (Blue Mountains)

'Worldwide Bondi have been working with Wayne and his team for the last 10 years. Twin Loop is our first and only stop for all our binding requirements. The Twin loop team are helpful, reliable and professional - and the end product always looks great! Can’t recommend Twin loop highly enough.'

Worldwide ...more than just print

'Snap Kirrawee have been using Twin Loop Binding for over 6 years now. The service and quality at Twin loop is exceptional and they are always willing to go the extra mile for us to finish the job on time. We have no hesitation in recommending Twin Loop Binding to any business who needs excellent quality binding solutions.'

Adrian Hoyle, Director - Snap Kirrawee

'UTS Printing Services have been a customer of Twin Loop Binding for more than 10 years. The service that we have received has been outstanding. We have always found them, professional, responsive, and respectful of privacy. They are easy to do business and the quality of their work and attention to meeting deadlines is excellent. We have always found it very convenient to have a trade binder that both meets our binding requirements, as well as being a supplier of binding consumables.'

UTS Printing Services

'We trust Twin Loop with all our Perfect Binding work and wire binding and have 100 percent confidence that they will take care of the job and provide a quality and affordable end product. We have no problem recommending them to our colleagues.'