Finishing Services
At Corporate Graphics, our comprehensive print finishing and bindery services ensure your project is completed with precision, durability, and visual impact. From basic trimming to advanced specialty finishes, we provide a full range of post-press solutions designed to enhance both the function and appearance of your printed materials.
Our finishing capabilities support books, catalogs, magazines, marketing materials, and custom print projects of all sizes.
Bindery Services
Our full-service bindery department manages all post-press processes required to transform printed sheets into finished products. This includes:
Cutting and trimming
Jogging for precise alignment
Collating and gathering
Folding into signatures
Saddle stitching and other binding preparation
These essential steps ensure accuracy, consistency, and a professional final product.
Die Cutting
Our custom die cutting services allow for the creation of unique shapes, designs, and patterns that make your printed pieces stand out. Using steel rule, rotary, circular, and thermal dies—as well as advanced tooling—we can produce intricate and consistent results for packaging, marketing materials, and specialty print applications.
Embossing & Debossing
Add dimension and sophistication with embossing and debossing services.
Embossing creates a raised design for a tactile, premium effect
Debossing produces a recessed image pressed into the paper surface
These techniques can be applied as blind (no ink) or combined with printed graphics for added impact.
Foil Stamping
Create a striking visual finish with foil stamping, where metallic, matte, or pigmented foils are applied to your design. This process enhances logos, titles, and key design elements with a premium, high-end look. Foil stamping can also be combined with embossing or debossing for added dimension.
Folding Services
Our precision paper folding services convert flat press sheets into finished formats such as book signatures, brochures, maps, and mailers. We offer a wide range of fold styles to meet the specific needs of your project.
Hand Bindery
For specialized or complex projects, our hand bindery services provide meticulous, manual finishing, including assembly, collating, gluing, and custom construction. This ensures accuracy and quality for short runs or unique applications.
Lamination
Protect and enhance your printed materials with lamination services. By applying a thin plastic film, lamination improves durability while adding a professional finish—available in gloss, matte, or soft-touch options. It also provides resistance to moisture, stains, and wear.
Trimming
Our precision trimming services ensure your final printed pieces are cut cleanly and accurately to their finished size. This final step delivers crisp edges and a polished appearance.
Bookbinding Services
Soft Cover
Corporate Graphics offers a full range of soft cover bookbinding services designed to meet the needs of publishers, schools, businesses, and organizations. From high-volume production to specialty applications, our binding methods ensure durability, functionality, and a professional finished appearance for every project.
Perfect Bound
A widely used softcover bookbinding method, perfect binding involves stacking pages or signatures, roughening and flattening the spine, and securing the cover with a strong, flexible adhesive. This method is ideal for books, catalogs, manuals, and magazines, offering a clean, square spine for printing titles and branding details such as the author’s name and publishing logo.
Adhesive Bound
Lay-Flat
This binding method uses specialized adhesives to secure loose pages into a solid text block—without the use of sewing or stitching. The result is a softcover book that opens more fully and lays flatter than traditional perfect-bound books, improving usability and readability. It is well-suited for manuals, workbooks, and other publications that require ease of use and frequent handling.
Smyth Sewn
A premium sewn bookbinding method where folded signatures are stitched together with thread before the cover is applied. This process creates a strong, flexible spine and significantly improves durability, making it ideal for high-use books and long-lasting publications.
Smyth Sewn Lay-Flat
This enhanced Smyth sewn binding involves sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a continuous thread through the folds of each section, creating a durable, high-quality text block. The result is a strong yet flexible book that opens completely flat, making it ideal for textbooks, cookbooks, and reference materials where hands-free use and long-lasting performance are essential.
PUR-Bound
Binding that involves stacking all the pages or signatures together, roughening and flattening the spine edge and attaching the paper cover to the spine with a PUR (polyurethane reactive) adhesive binding considered the most durable bookbinding adhesive on the market.
Saddle-Stitch
Binding that involves securing the pages of a section through the center fold by means of wire staples; the term "saddle" derives from the SADDLE of the machine.
Hard Cover (Casebound)
Side-Sewn
Binding that involves securing the sections of a book with thread or wire near the binding edge, from front to back through the entire thickness of the text block.
Adhesive Bound Round-Back
Adhesive Bound
Square-Back
Adhesive Bound
Binding that involves securing loose pages into a solid text block by means of an adhesive rather than by means of sewing or stitching.
Smyth Sewn
Round-Back
Smyth Sewn
Square-Back
Smyth Sewn
Binding that involves sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
Specialty Binding
Wire-O Bound
Wire-O Bound
Binding books along the edge using double loops of wire; this allows the book to lie flat when opened.
Standard Drill
Standard Drilled
Punching three holes in a finished printed piece for use in a ring binder.
