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NAQP Bindery & Finishing Study Now Available

NAQP's Bindery & Finishing Study (Second Edition) features separate breakouts for traditional bindery services and inline bindery services provided on digital copier/printers. In all, more than 60 bindery services or operations are covered in this study. Average and medium prices are provided for digital services including numbering, folding, drilling,and bookletmaking. The new study separates pricing for these services from similar services produced on traditional bindery equipment.

Many printers have not updated their bindery prices in many years. Here is a perfect opportunity to measure and evaluate your pricing against the industry averages in order to make needed changes in a logical and practical way.

Included among the 60+ services covered in the new report are:

• Packaging prices (e.g.: shrink wrapping and letterhead boxes)
• Creasing & scoring charges
• Collating charges (hourly and per thousand)
• Machine collating charges (off-line)
• Coil, Wire-O, GBC & tape binding
• Drilling (off-line and digital on-line)
• Padding fees (NCR and standard size pads)
• Number charges (off line and digital)
• Booklet making (off line and digital)
• Perfect binding

Order your copy of the Bindery & Finishing Study (Second Edition) by going to www.napl.org and clicking on "NAPL Store" (item #NQ1019) or by calling 800.642.6275 ext. 4. Members of NAQP and the rest of the NAPL Network can purchase the study for $155. The price for non-members is $225.