Some machines have copper clad steel wire. These allow you to punch the

right number of holes for various sizes of paper, such as half-letter

and legal-size. Be sure to disengage (or engage) the appropriate dies

before you punch your paper, if necessary.

Now

you can punch your paper and covers. Depending on your machine, you'll

either pull a handle to do this or press a button. Don't exceed your

machine's punching capacity. Doing so can dull the punching dies.

A

lot of wire binding machines have spine selectors. If your device has

this feature, you can use it to measure the thickness of your document

and then pick out the appropriate spine for it. Depending on your

machine, you will be either working with 3:1 or 2:1 pitch wire spines,

or both. (Pitch just refers to how many holes there are punched per inch

of paper. The 2:1 pitch spines can bind thicker documents, including

ones that are up to 250 pages long.)

Place

the wire spine on the hanger on the front of the machine. You can start

threading the tines of the spine through the holes in your book. Don't

forget to add the covers. In fact, the back cover should be the last

sheet you add, and its interior should be facing you. Once your book is

bound you can rotate the cover to hid the seam in the closed spine.

Now

you're ready to close the spine. Place your document in the spine

closer and make sure the open part of spine is facing down. Close the

spine and flip the back cover around. Your document should look great.

Repeat

the above process if you have other documents to bind. And if you have

an electric machine, make sure you turn it off when you're done to

prevent the motor from burning out.

Keep

in mind that these instructions are fairly general. While they will be

helpful for using most of the wire binding machines out there, your

machine may have device-specific instructions you need to follow. You

should always check out your machine's instruction manual just to make

sure you're doing everything you need to.

Wire binding is a great way to bind your documents and it's not that hard to do. Give it a try today.

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