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Vervante • January 21, 2024

Why Spiral or Wire-o Binding? Spiral and wire-o binding are versatile and practical choices for various printed materials. Here's why: Lay-Flat Advantage: Spiral binding allows books to lay flat when opened, providing a seamless reading experience. This makes it an excellent choice for cookbooks, manuals, and other reference materials where easy access to content is crucial. 360-Degree Rotation: The ability to rotate pages a full 360 degrees means that spiral-bound books are easy to handle, making them ideal for presentations, notebooks, and educational materials. Durable and Sturdy: The spiral binding ensures durability, making the book resistant to wear and tear. This is particularly advantageous for frequently used manuals or notebooks. Customizable Page Sizes: At Vervante, we believe in flexibility. We don't have pre-set page sizes, allowing you to print anything from a small handbook to a full-size sheet of paper. Your project, your size! We offer three types of spiral binding options to suit your needs: Plastic Spiral Binding: A flexible and forgiving option that retains its shape over time. Metal Spiral Binding: Offers a premium and sleek finish for a polished look. Double Wire-O Binding: Combines the durability of metal with a stylish and professional appearance. Spiral and wire-o binding can be used with any of our cover options: Soft Covers: Perfect for a lightweight and flexible feel. Hardcovers: Ideal for a more robust and premium finish. Board Covers: For added durability and stability. Poly Paper Covers: Water-resistant and tear-proof for added protection. 10mm Laminated Covers: A sleek, polished look for a lasting impression. Semi-Concealed Softcovers: Enjoy the usability of lay flat with a printed spine, combining functionality with a professional aesthetic. Concealed Hardcovers: Opt for the premium lay flat option with a durable hardcover, providing both sophistication and resilience.

Vervante • September 24, 2023

Customers love disc-punched planners for several reasons: Flexibility: Disc-punched planners offer a high degree of flexibility compared to traditional bound planners. The pages of a disc-punched planner can be easily added, removed, or rearranged, allowing customers to customize their planner according to their needs and preferences. Cover Options: We offer softcovers, poly paper cover, board covers and 10mm laminated options.   >>Cool design tip<< If you create two-sided covers, you can give your customer additional flexibility by simply flipping the covers over for an entirely different cover. Personalization: Disc-punched planners provide flexibility so customers can select the inserts that suit their specific requirements. It enables them to incorporate elements that are relevant to their personal or professional lives, increasing the planner's usefulness and effectiveness. Organization and Structure: The disc-punched system provides a neat and organized way to keep track of various sections within the planner. Customers can separate their planner into distinct categories, such as monthly calendars, weekly spreads, notes, goal tracking, and more. Versatility: The versatility of disc-punched planners makes them suitable for a wide range of users, including students, professionals, creatives, and individuals with various planning preferences. We have a new sample available HERE.  This sample includes a soft cover with a foil-stamped frosted poly overlay. Overall, the use of a disc-punched planner offers customers the advantages of flexibility, personalization, durability, organization, and versatility. It provides a customizable and efficient planning tool that can adapt to their evolving needs and help them stay organized and productive.

Vervante • April 28, 2023

Center sewn booklets are a simple and beautiful way to provide your customers with a product with visual appeal. This form of book binding uses no adhesives or staples. Center sewn is also known as Singer sewn.   What exactly is Singer sewn or Center sewn? This style of binding is like saddle-stitching. An industrial sewing machine is used to stitch the book cover and pages together. The result? A spine with a visible continuous line of sewing that can be customized with thread that either contrasts or blends with your cover design.   Why we love center sewn book binding. Creative - You can customize your thread color. Durable - The number of stitches makes your center sewn book more secure. Attractive – Simple and stylish way to create your product. Cover Options – You can use a printed softcover or soft faux leather. Ease of use – This style of binding allows your product to lay flat.  For more information about our latest binding option, center sewn bookbinding, check out this page for more information. We also offer a printed and foil stamped cover sample here, with coordinating thread.   Vervante & Amazon Royalty Payments If you have products listed on Amazon Marketplace or in the Vervante Bookstore, please check out this updated, helpful guide to learn how to get paid for sales.  We have recently updated it with more information and you can find it here. If you have questions about center sewn booklets or royalty payments, please contact [email protected].    

Vervante • April 17, 2023

If you would like to give your customers the flexibility and modularity to assemble their own planner, then a disc bound planner might be the perfect solution. We offer a variety of cover options and punching for this very popular planner. >> Check out this video to learn more about punched for disc binding Why you will love Disc Binding We love Disc binding, and we know that you will too! Here are some reasons why: Disc Binding is highly customizable and allows your customers to add, remove and rearrange pages as often as the mood strikes. Offer different cover images and options enables your customer to create their unique planner. Ease of use! Disc binding allows you to have flexibility without the bulk! Pages will pop in and out and the discs take up hardly any space at all. A variety of page sizes. Some of the most popular: 4.625 x 7 (7 discs) 7 x 9.25 (9 discs) 5.5x8.5 (8 discs) 8.5x11 (11 discs) Disc Binding made easy While we offer punching for disc binding, the discs are not included. Good news! You can send us the discs of your choice and we will include them when we ship the order to your customers. Discs can be purchased online on Etsy, Amazon, and other suppliers in a variety of colors, sizes, and materials. All you need to do is send them to us and we will get them to your customers! If you feel like you’re missing out, you don’t have to suffer from FOMO you can easily convert an existing planner into disc bound! Check out this article to see how we can help! We are excited to help you create products that you and your customers will love.

Vervante • March 1, 2023

We are always looking for additional products and services to offer based on your requests! We are thrilled to announce that we are now offering Smyth sewn layflat binding. If you are looking for a hardcover planner, book, journal or coffee-table book that opens and lays flat for easy use or reading, we can now print and bind this for you. Why is Smyth sewn so special you may ask? Traditional hardcover books are printed, glued along the spine, and then placed inside a hardcover case. With this method you get a bit of curl into the gutter due to the glued spine. Smyth sewn binding lays completely flat. We print the pages in signatures (usually 16 pages), sew these mini booklets together, apply a fabric backing to the spine to securely hold the pages in place and then bind the content in a hardcover case. Here’s a quick video of how the mini booklets are Smyth sewn, and then we end up with stitched booklets that are bound into books. Why choose Smyth sewn for your product? This binding method is the highest quality book binding available. Smyth sewn books are durable and beautiful. This type of binding can endure daily or regular usage in a product such as a daily planner or journal. This binding is also tamper proof because you cannot remove just one page without damaging the entire book.Due to the nature of the binding, this is not an ideal option for short runs and usually isn’t cost effective for orders of less than 100. Best uses for layflat bound books? Planners Journals and notebooks Coffee table books Textbooks Any hardcover book where you want a true layflat binding either for ease of use or to display beautiful art or images. You can see the difference between traditional casebound books and layflat bound books and how it can work for you and your products HERE.  

Vervante • April 5, 2022

Many of our current customers wanted to know: Can I convert my current product into a disc-bound one? We're pleased to let you know that YES, you can!    It's actually very easy to convert existing products that are currently spiral or wire-o bound to a disc-punched option. In fact, you can give your customers the option of selection either spiral, wire-o bound or punched for disc binding.  The really good news? We don't need new files, just an email from you to let us know what you'd like.  Vervante is one of only a few companies that provide punching for a disc bound product, so you can put help your product stand out in the market by offering something that many other people can't. Please note: We offer punching for disc binding - discs are not included. We are happy to punch your product for disc binding and you can send us discs to be bundled with the content that we ship to your customers. If you want to include discs with your product, they can be purchased on Amazon, Etsy, or special ordered from overseas suppliers such as Alibaba. They come in a variety of sizes depending on the number of pages in your product, and in different colors and materials such as plastic and metal. All you need to do is send the discs to us, we'll store them in our warehouse, and bundle them with the disc-punched content we create for your product. For more details about disc-bound products and disc-punching service we offer, see this article: "How to Create a Disc Bound Planner." If you’d like a free quote for creating disc bound punched content, or for any other product or service, just click on the “Get a Quote” link on our website home page. Or you can always reach out to [email protected].  

Vervante • March 29, 2022

If you love Disc Bound Planners, we’ve got great news – we can help you create a disc bound planner of your own! You’ve likely seen these types of planners offered by popular systems including Arc, Martha Stewart, Inkwell Press, and Happy Planner. Now you can add your own business to that group. What is Disc Binding? Disc bound planners have a unique, attractive look, but they are also highly functional, easy to use and adapt to so many different features. (In the photo here you can see one we've created.) Disc binding combines the concept of a 3-ring binder with spiral binding. Your product will function like a spiral notebook but instead of using a continuous wire that permanently binds the content, the binding is composed of small round discs with a small lip on the edge that holds pages together. Pages for disc-bound products are specially punched in a unique way so that they hang onto the discs and can be easily added or removed. Using disc binding, you can have multiple covers, page formats, and accessories, allowing you to create a custom planner ideal for your lifestyle. Why we love Disc Binding 1. Highly customizable: You can add, remove, and rearrange pages to your heart’s content - and customers can too! 2. Variety of cover options: Softcovers Softcovers with frosted poly plastic overlays Board covers Laminated covers Poly paper 3. Easy to handle: No bulky cover, pages pop in and out easily, discs take up very little space 4. We offer a variety of page sizes 4.625 x 7 (7 discs) 7 x 9.25 (9 discs) 5.5x8.5 (8 discs) 8.5x11 (11 discs) 5. We also can print any number of pages using different sized discs to accommodate various page counts 6. Endless possibilities: Accessories and other product lines can be added. 7. Ready to create right now: Vervante is one of only a few companies that provide punching for a disc bound product, so you can get started right now creating a unique planner that your customers will love. Please note: We offer punching for disc binding - discs are not included. However, it's easy to find discs for your product and send them to us to be bundled with the punched content we create for you. Discs can be purchased on Amazon, Etsy, or special order them from overseas suppliers such as Alibaba.They come in a variety of sizes depending on the number of pages in your product, and in different colors and materials such as plastic and metal. We are happy to punch your product for disc binding and you can send us discs to be bundled with the content that we ship to your customers. If you’d like a free quote for creating disc bound punched content, or for any other product or service, just click on the “Get a Quote” link on our website home page. Or you can always reach out via our Contact Page.