Binders are files or folder-like structures that hold together any number of papers or documents together. It is the best way to organize documents belonging to a certain topic categorically into different sections and form booklets out of them. These booklets may or may not be adhered together permanently. It wholly depends on the type of binding you choose to perform on these documents. It is essential to keep records of things pertaining important information on the transaction of valuable assets especially at home and office. These could be in the form of bills or receipts or documents of other financial records. They are normally kept together in a binder by punching holes in them and inserting them onto circular or D-shaped rings that are fixed to the binder.

Apart from professional documents and financial documents, schoolwork papers, project reports, personal papers, photo albums, recipes, sports cards collection, needlecraft embroidery collections, yours and your family medical records, pet records and CD/DVD collections can all be organized using these binders. Amongst the permanent methods of binding are thermal binding and tape binding while the temporary form involves, ring binders, comb binders, wire binders, plastic binders and so on. The temporary form of binding involves punched pieces of paper held together by means of clamps running through the holes in the paper. The pitch of binding refers to the number of holes used for binding per inch. Where the wire binding uses a pitch of 3:1 and 2:1, the coil binding has a pitch of 4:1.

In thermal binding hot glue is used to fasten the document to a cover and it produces a library book like appearance. Tape binding uses hot glue adhered to a tape-like long strip that subsequently wraps around the spine of the document. A binding machine is used for this purpose. Binding machines are also available that electronically punch equidistant holes on well aligned bunch of documents. These are later bound together using plastic combs or wire, metal or plastic rings passing through these holes. These are reversible kind of binding techniques which can be manipulated any time you need. These methods of binding provide more versatility since there are a lot of options available when it comes to choosing the binding elements like combs and wires.

Normally binders are available in standard sizes and shapes. However, you have an option of customizing your binding elements especially when you are using them for professional use. You could either imprint the company name or the company logo, specific colors or specific pictures onto the binders or form a unique line of binders for your brand. Sometimes the covers of the binders are not just made up of the conventional hardback book styles but may also constitute of vinyl covers which are provided with pockets that serve the purpose of holding loose papers, documents or business cards in the binders. We also have zipper binders that hold the papers together very well and keep them from falling out.