A-1 Carbigraphic Bindery Products

The Health of the Bindery Industry

Today's Health of the Bindery Industry is resting on many different factors. Postal Regulations, Advertisers, Newspapers health, Green Initiatives, Internet, and many, many more. Over the last month and the coming month's lets hope for the tide to continue to rise.

Wire Guides and Formers

Wire guides and formers are an intricate part of any type of stitcher head. For the most part I recommend running 23 Gauge parts on any job. This would be true if you are running 24 gauge wire all the way up to 25 Gauge wire. This gives you more of a tolerance to switching wire especially if you shop is running both 24 and 25 Gauge on jobs.

A-1 Bindery Service Tip of The Month







The health of your wire guide spring is critical to the success of your stitching operation. After time your wire guide spring will wear and deteriorate at the wire contact points. This will look like flat spots and uneven grooves in your wire guide spring. These grooves and flat spots will cause wire shavings, wire dust, other fine metallic scrapings to clog your tubes, guides, and formers. This is happening because the stitching wire is being rubbed or scraped causing the wire to flake and peel. If you have any issues described above give this a shot.

Print 09 Show Chicago


At the Print 09 show in Chicago? Well if you weren't then you should have been. On the visitor side it was great, you could see everything without wait. On the side of working the show, I can't say the same. Hopefully the people that were visiting the show were buyers.
A1 Bindery Service is currently offer an end of summer special. Any new customer can have their stitching heads completely rebuilt just for the price of parts. There is no charge for labor, just parts and ups fees.

Refurbished Stitching Machines

A1 Bindery Service has numerous new and used stitching machines availible for sale at huge discounts. We purchase used machines and totally rework them back to their original tolerances and sell them at a fraction of the cost of new machines. If you are looking for a savings on a machine you have to contact us.

Stitching Head Repair Special

Currently A1 Bindery Service is offering a 2 for 1 stitching head repair special. Send in your heads for repair and there will be no labor charge for the second stitching head