Canada’s Leading Bookbinder At Anstey Book Binding we have been honoured to serve Canada and many international clients and their highly specialized bookbinding needs. Our history is closely intertwined with that of the city of Toronto, and we have grown alongside the city. Nearly fifty years after the founding of Toronto, two professional bookbinders by the names of Messrs. Anstey…

We produce pop-ups!  We do all the die-cutting, required gluing and hand assembly (in most cases).  The first four diagrams are by far the cheapest: each of the four getting progressively more expensive.  The following picture are very labour intensive.  With the first two pictures, the piece “pops open”, when the page is turned.  With pictures #3 and #4, the…

This presentation is about add-ons that you can incorporate into what is often a boring portfolio.  Pictures #1 to #6 are add-ons to the same piece!  The first picture is the front showing the square back spine.  Picture #2 shows 3 panels.  Picture #3 shows an inserted separate piece.  Picture #4 shows a die-cut pen holder.  Picture #5 shows a…

We produce numerous titles of perfect bound books with die-cut covers.  As you can see from the following six different titles the die-cutting can be very simple as shown in pictures #1 to #3.  The blue cover book is extremely detailed.  Pictures #5 and #8 are moderately detailed.  When working with a perfect bound job requiring die-cut covers opt for…

We are increasingly seeing more “bindery” uses for large format printed material on books, portfolios and boxes!  With very few exceptions, this material is reasonably easy to work with…to die cut, glue, form or sew.  This printed material gives designers a greater range of ideas; the finished product is very distinguishable from simple foil stamped or debossed products, it is…

This weeks’ eblast is about “one station pull tabs.”  This style comes in endless sizes, a wide range of stock weights, quantities from hundreds to hundreds of thousands…lots and lots of room for creative design!  We produce this product automatically.  This is a product that requires customer involvement resulting in intrigue, and memory of product or service advertised.  “One station…

Chocolate Bottom Box These chocolate boxes as far as box folding style is concerned are called “Hymes” or “Loc bottom.”  I have reviewed “Hymes” bottom boxes in a previous video, but I’m showing this piece because of the highly unusual “top”!  Like all “Hymes” bottomed boxes, these pieces are die-cut, and box folded automatically.  These chocolate boxes are only different…

I’m highlighting this piece for 3 reasons… This piece is corrugated. We’re seeing more corrugated material in our die-cut, fold glue department.  We are seeing better quality printing on a wide range of corrugate “flute profiles.”  With corrugate, the “thicknesses” are referred to as “flute profiles” which are referred to in “letter form.” “F” flute is very thin…”A” is very…

The product for this session is called a “Hymes”, or “Loc Bottom” or “Auto Bottom”, boxes.  None of these names are copyrighted, the product is not patented.  For “Hymes” bottomed boxes we can die-cut from full sheets, and fully, automatically fold and glue the product.  “Hymes” bottomed boxes can be “erected” or popped open by simply squeezing!  Wow…..simplicity plus!  No…

This product is called a card slider.  You will notice that after opening the 4-page piece, that you can easily pull out a card.  The card has a debossed portion that fits a gift card or anything similar.  We are able to die cut, fold and glue this product automatically!  Yes, sizes can vary. There can be more panels.  We…