Study of Binding Processes for Optimum Utilization of Adhesives

Pages:136-142
Pankaj Kumar and Nishan Singh (Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana)

In book binding printing adhesives is widely useful. Adhesive alone is used to attach the pages of a book together and attach the book’s cover. If only one adhesive application is used to construct the book, it is called a “one-shot process”. When two adhesive applications are required, it is a “two-shot process”. In the later process, the first application of adhesive binds the bases of the book together. This adhesive is sometimes referred to as primer glue. The second application of adhesive is used to attach the book’s cover to the book spine. Aim of this study is to reduce the consumption of adhesive along with the optimum utilization of adhesives and explore the possible ways of optimum utilization of the adhesives used in different binding processes specially in perfect binding. In this paper is study of different binding processes used in printing industries, different jobs of the “Dora Offset Printers and Other Sheet fed Offset Presses of Hisar” were taken into consideration. During project work jobs consuming moderate amount of adhesives were selected and the study was conducted on each selected job.