Teacher Wish List - Spiral Binding Machine

• 1. Spiral Binding Machine
• 2. Laminator
• 3. Guillotine

With a binder machine you can create professional, creative books,study units and reports with a pull of a handle!  

Plastic or wire coils easily spin through punched paper and are then cut and crimped to prevent the coils from spinning back out.

Coil binding is ideal for making books as they allow the book to lie flat on a table when read - very useful if you are creating reading, work books or flip charts.  

Plastic PVC coils for the coil binding machines are available in multiple colors and sizes. 

Spiral binding machines differ by

• price ($100 - $6,000)
• how many sheets they can take at any one time
• plastic or wire coil binding
• how many holes they punch per inch
• how many pages they can coil bind
• Manual or Electric

When looking for a spiral binder decide if you require plastic or wire coil binding.  Wire will be more expensive, but you can get combo-binders which coil both plastic and wire.  If you will be doing a lot of spiral binding then how many sheets that can be accomodated at any one time will be important.  This usually varies from 5 - 25 sheets for manual binding machines.  Electric binding machines are usually very expensive - in the $1000's - but manual binders start from approx $100

Binding Machines & Supplies:

Some that are suitable for teacher or homeschool use that I would recommend are:

The EB-19.  This is a great choice for punching and binding both plastic comb AND wire (wire makes everything look SO much more professional!) .  If using plastic combs it can bind up to 120 sheets of paper, or if using wire it can bind up to 90 sheets.  On the down side, it can only punch up to 6 sheets at a time

The CombBind C100 binding machine is a plastic coil binding machine. It can bind up to a massive 300 sheets at a time and punches up to 12 sheets of paper.

What Binder Machine do YOU use?

Do you have a reliable binding machine that you would recommend to other teachers and parents? Or perhaps one that you would NEVER buy again?! Tell the readers at A to Z Phonics in the form below.

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