Lay Flat Binding for Photo Book

If you want to create an album of your digital photos, a photo book service is absolutely the way to go. Today's digital photo books look much sleeker and more elegant than the scrapbooks of old. They're also much easier to replace if an original gets damaged.

Digital photo books can be customized to fit any purpose, such as for a baby book, a family trip album, or even a school yearbook. They also make great gifts for grandparents and family. And if you're a photographer, photo books are a wonderful way to curate your work in something that can be reproduced for distribution.

If you want to make a fancier book to document a special event, such as a wedding, consider upgrading to a layflat book, which has a unique type of binding that allows two-page spreads to lie completely flat, with no crease in the middle. You could also consider choosing a more luxurious cover, such as leather or crushed silk, to match the occasion.

Lay-flat binding is an alternative to mechanical binding for technical perfect lie flat perfect burst perfect case manuals, photobooks, music books, cookbooks, and directories. 

Sheets are printed on a thick paperboard, and folded in two. Each non-printed side of the pages is then glued together with one to each other.  

The key to successful lay-flat binding lies in water-based glue, also known as cold or polyurethane reactive (PUR) glue, that stays flexible for the life of the product. As an additional advantage, cold glues aid recycling because pulp mills can separate them easily from paper. Cold glues do require special machinery and twenty-four hours to cure.

The photobooks are taken single-sided print or spread on the high-quality paper or paper board, prints that bleed or span across both left and right-hand sides of the book, and placed them back to back with a thin or thick mounting sheet. It creates a butterfly binding, with edge-to-edge continuous graphics or photographs. The album opens flat at 180 degrees, with a free-floating spine for increased quality and durability. Every photobook gets that luxurious feel that is associated with real premium photo albums.

Compared to other binding techniques, none of your imagery will be lost in the gutter or confined to a single page. This allows the depth and meaning of the image to be in full effect.

By the lay-falt binding way for the photobooks, you will enjoy the benefits:

1. Allows photobook to open completely flat
2. Can showcase images across a double-page spread without losing details in the 'gutter'
3. Ease in turning pages for a great viewing experience
4. Weighty board pages
5. Images are presented seamlessly from one page to the next. 

The best solution for making the photobook automatically, it's Digital Photo Book Making Machine

Digital Photo Book Making Machine

Digital Photo Book Making Machine is used for photo book production, such as children board books, photo books, picture albums, commercial brochures, menus and other lay flat binding board books. Integrates paper board folding, gluing, mounting, gray board or PVC board inserting, book block forming and flat pressing, and other processes, using cold glue is environmentally friendly and cost-effective, and can realize automatic setting and job changeover by data input, code scanning, or connection with the system, the compact design with the small footprint, especially suitable for short run photo book production.

After photo book making, will be connect with the three knives trimmer and the head and tail band fixing machine, to finish whole process. It's worth noting that all equipments are digital post-press machines, the jobs changeover are automatically, especially for the short-run jobs.

Digital Three Knife Trimmer

Digital Head Band Fixing Machine

We live in a digital world overflowing with images and screens, by creating a tangible photo book, you can reconnect with your images, as well as those moments in time, and photo books make sharing memories with family and friends so much easier.