Introducing the PC200 Plastic Spiral Coil Binding Machine

One of the newest binding machines added to the Mybinding.com site is the PC200 plastic spiral coil binding machine. At first glance it might seem that this is just yet another coil binding machine. However, the PC200 has one important feature that sets it apart from all of the other spiral coil binding machines that we carry. The PC200 Coil Binding machine is the first commercially available personal coil binding machine with fully disengageable punching pins.

If you haven’t done a lot of coil binding, this may not seem like it is a big deal. Actually for most users it isn’t a huge deal. However, the fact that the PC200 has fully disengageable pins allows users to bind documents that they cannot bind on any of the other coil binding machines on the market (including the Akiles CoilMac line of binding machines). Most of the coil binding machines on the market only allow you to disengage three or four pins. These machines allow you to bind the most common sizes of documents. However, if you want to bind a custom sized document or photobook you are likely to run into trouble. With the PC200 you can bind any length of document that you want.

One of the best features of coil is that coil binding supplies are readily available and reasonably priced in custom lengths. However, in order to take advantage of this great feature you need a machine that can bind custom sized documents. With the PC200 you can bind documents that are both shorter and longer than 11” (up to a maximum of 21” in length). For documents or projects that are less than 11 inches you simply have to pull the correct pin to ensure that you don’t have a half at the edge of your page. For documents that are longer than 11 inches you can use the open throat design of the PC200 to punch your documents in two passes.

Source: Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for MyBinding.com. He has written over 100 articles on binding machines,binding supplies,binding covers and more.