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Re: Help Finding "Report Covers" With Longer Spines!

Subject: Re: Help Finding "Report Covers" With Longer Spines!
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:41 -0500




Steven Oppenheimer wrote:


Quick Mini-Rant: How come capitalism can produce eighteen billion, nine hundred and seventy-five million, two hundred and sixty-three thousand, four hundred and thirty-six distinct products, and none of them meet the particular specifications of what I am looking for?

Or so it seems. I've been searching on the Web (I'll spare you the rant about how hard it is to find things on the Web, what with the six trillion Web sites), and I can't find what I need, at least not under all the "noise." Has someone seen this product?


Nice rant, Steve. As a practitioner of the form myself, I just thought I'd offer my compliments.


I am looking for what are sometimes called "Report Covers", except they are not just covers, they have a front and back. I can describe the ones I currently have: Clear plastic front, a backing made of some material that feels something like cardboard with simulated grain, though it may actually be a kind of plastic. When you open it, the inner spine has lips, about an inch wide. The back lip has three metal-reinforced holes, while the front lip has three matching metal tabs. You can raise the tabs, stack three-hole punched paper on them, and then insert the tabs into the holes on the rear part of the spine. Flattening the remaining part of the tabs, you have now bound your three-hole punched paper between the clear plastic front cover and the solid back cover.

Okay, when I was a kid in elementary school, you could go to Woolworth's and buy a package of those brass things (loose, with their own attached round heads and the two tabs of slightly different length extending perpendicular to the heads); and now, for the life of me, I can't remember what those things were called. Do they exist any more? Any other senior folks around here remember?

[snip]

Steve, Laurel's solution is probably the cheap way to go for just a few pieces; but if you're going to be doing a lot of this, comb or Wire-O binding is the way to go. If you are now completely independent at Oppenheimer Communications, with no day job, then you probably don't want to go out and buy a binding machine (GBC or Ibico) and a stack of supplies. However, if you have an in at almost any company that has a marketing department or that prepares sales proposals for clients (maybe your friendly neighborhood architect you met at the New Year's block party, for example), you can probably drop by to put a document together once in a while and just pay for the actual materials, if they even bother to charge for that. The other approach is to take your report to the nearest Kinko's and have them bind it. They have the equipment and you'll be in and out in minutes.

Dick

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