Spiral binding
the affordable binding for your paper
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✓ 3D Look inside function
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Price: from £ 4,90
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Order today, receive your binding tomorrow! Just upload your paper, choose your binding, submit your order and benefit from our free next-day express delivery!
INNOVATIVE Look inside function
Benefit from our Look inside function: browse your thesis the way it will look after binding right in our print-shop and thereby do a final check.
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See a 3D preview of your spiral binding with everty adjustment as well as the estimated date of delivery and price calculation in our print-shop.
Spiral binding
The affordable binding for students
Spiral binding is very popular among students as it is the most affordable binding. It has a classic and simple look and is therefore especially good for short academic papers. The transparent front cover enables the reader to see your cover page at first glance.
- Surface: textured in leather look
- Back cover colours: blue, black, green, red, grey, yellow, white
- Front film: transparent plastic
- Suitable for: approx. 1 - 300 pages
Price: from £ 4,90
Available immediately.
Spiral binding options
With BachelorPrint, you can order the spiral binding in seven different colours. Note: only the back cover is coloured, the front film is always transparent. The spiral is offered in black and therefore suits every colour.
You can choose from the following options:
Plastic or metal wire binding
Colour of the back cover:
- Royal blue
- Bordeaux red
- Sunshine yellow
- Dark green
- Grey
- Black
- White
BachelorPrint online Configurator
NEW: final proof with Look inside function
You want to check your binding and your thesis before placing your order? Benefit from our new Look inside function that enbales you to do a final proof online before printing and binding. Just browse your paper online and see your binding and every adjustment you made, like CD sleeves, triangular pockets or fold-out pages.
3D online Configurator with delivery date display and live price calculation
The 3D preview in the BachelorPrint online shop enables you to see your binding and every adjustment you make live while configuring your order. In addition, you can also see the estimated date of delivery and a detailed price calculation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Spiral binding is characterized through the way the pages are bound together: a spiral in either metal or plastic holds your pages together. This binding is also equipped with a transparent front cover and a coloured back cover.
When producing a spiral binding, the first step ist to pierce all pages that need to be bound with the binding. The different spiral binding options (metal or plastic) need differrent punching holes. In the second step, the punched pages are faced with front and back cover. In the third and last step, the spiral is inserted in the stamped holes and the binding will be pressed shut.
Spiral binding is best used for rather short academic papers as this binding appears quite simple. For more important papers, we recommend other bindings.
We recommend spiral binding for the following types of work:
Spiral binding itself costs £4,90 and is therefore the most affordable option. The total price depends on how many pages your paper has and whether you want extras to your spiral binding.
With spiral binding, the size of the spiral is adjusted according to the number of pages. The spiral diameters range varies from 6 mm to 22 mm. It is also important for the determination of a page count to know the paper weight. You can fit more sheets of 100 g/m² paper into spiral binding than you can 120 g/m² paper.
A spiral binding can hold about 300 pages. If your document consists of more pages, we recommend double sided printing. That way, up to 600 printed pages, or 300 pages, fit into the wire binding.
| Spiral diameter | 100 g/m² paper | 120 g/m² paper |
| 6 mm | 1-30 | 1-20 |
| 8 mm | 31-50 | 21-40 |
| 11 mm | 51-70 | 41-60 |
| 13 mm | 71-90 | 61-80 |
| 15 mm | 91-110 | 81-100 |
| 19 mm | 111-150 | 101-140 |
| 22 mm | 151-200 | 141-190 |
Advantages & disadvantages of the spiral binding
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Very affordable price | Easily creased or dogeared |
| Short production time | Relatively unprotected from external influences |
| Clear front film to show off title page | Looks less sophisticated |
| Embossing not an option | |
| Corners and ribbon not an option |
