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inside of the back cover; and a second bar
that closes off the binding system once
all the paper is in place.
Once the second bar has been pressed
down, you just need to break off the
prongs, uncover the adhesive strip on the
inside of the cover, close the cover and
run your fingers along the spine to secure.
It’s that simple and the whole process
takes just 40 seconds. If you make a
mistake, you can break the bindings and
remove the pages without damaging
them, allowing them to be used again.
The system can be used to create
documents of up to 400 pages and is
available with a wide choice of hard and
soft covers, with or without windows.
These can be ordered plain or pre-printed.
Lighter options can be personalised on an
office printer.
Office stamps
Paperworld is always a good opportunity
to catch up with what’s happening in the
world of stamps. After several years of
interesting developments mainly centred
around portable stamping products and
the use of recycled materials and bio-
plastics, 2012 was relatively quiet.
There were more anti-
bacterial treatments
and a greater range of
eco options, including
Colop’s LiquidWood
stamps. Introduced
in 2011, LiquidWood
is made from lignin,
a by-product of
paper production, and
strengthened with hemp
and flax fibres, giving
it similar properties to impact-resistant
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plastics, such as ABS. Unlike ABS, it is
100% bio-degradable and, in the case of
Colop stamps, CO
2
neutral, thanks to the
company’s investment in Gold standard
carbon offset projects.
Shiny Stamp, too, has expanded its
ECO line. In addition to stamps made
from recycled ABS plastic, recycled PET
from old water bottles and compostable
PLA bio-plastic from corn starch, it was
showing a new Hybird Line made from
a mixture of PLA and sawdust. One of
the advantages of using this material
instead of petroleum polymers is that it is
natural, non-toxic and can be incinerated,
composted or recycled.
On its stand, Trodat was showing a
new range of stylish stamping pens that
make ideal personal or corporate gifts.
Featuring four elegant designs in gold,
chrome, black and earth, the Goldring
Style series of high quality writing
instruments incorporate a personal stamp
beneath a removable cap.
Heri has been making stamping pens
for more than 50 years, since 1961,
and continues to update its range most
recently with the refillable Diagonal wave
ballpoint. Ideal as corporate gifts, the
pens incorporate a pre-inked four-line
address stamp at one end (good for 5,000
impressions) and a writing point at the
other. They cost from 8 to 50 euros.
Businesses
that use a
lot of stamps
can make their own in as few as five
minutes using the Business In a Box from
Photocentric. Containing everything
needed to make stamps for leading
brands, such as Colop, Shiny and
Trodat, the £120 pack can also be
used by a reseller to provide a ‘while-u-
wait’ stamp creation service.
Summary
Overall, Paperworld 2012 was short on
innovation. And what innovation there
was is unlikely to grow the market for
stationery products. A good example
being the Innobind system, which offers
customers a way of binding documents
without having to spend money on
consumables, such as binding combs.
While there was still much to see and
admire at Paperworld 2012, it is a sign
of the times that the most interesting
products were ones not normally
associated with the stationery market,
like printers and air purifiers. Let’s hope
Paperworld 2013 sees the start of a
new wave of innovation, otherwise the
stationery and office products industry’s
best hope for growth is to follow Fellowes
lead and diversify into other areas.
A potentially very useful new filing
product is the Jalema Dify-Clip with
integrated USB storage that makes it
possible to store electronic files with
paper documents.
The Jalema Clip itself is a space-
efficient, versatile filing solution
that is a convenient way of keeping
documents together in the short or
long-term. It consists of two flexible
prongs that take punched pages and
a clamping device that, as well as
holding the paper in place, lays the
unused prong capacity flat against the
page (you can see a video of how it
works at www.jalemaclip.com). This
means that a file is only as thick as
its contents, making it more space
efficient than lever arch files.
Another benefit of Jalema Clip
is that documents can be opened
completely flat for easier reading and
copying.
The Jalema Clip can be used on its
own and stored in project files, box
files or existing ring binders and lever
arch files. There is also the option of
a self-adhesive version that can be
applied to any file or folder, as well
as a range of folders with integrated
Jalema Clips.
The Jalema Dify-Clip available with
2GB or 4GB storage capacities is ideal
for storing projects and reports that
combine both electronic and paper-
based content; or for distributing
material at presentations or product
launches.
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