Another item that I’ve been getting a lot of requests for is hinge strips. Many of my clients print their own portfolio pages and use the templates that I include with all portfolio orders to punch the holes for the screw posts. This works out great but in the case where a client wants to use a heavier weight paper the issue of page turning always comes up. Lighter weight papers turn just fine on their own when put into screwpost books but when you get past about an 80lb paper the page will want to spring back which makes the portfolio viewing less than a perfect experience. Scoring the page where it will fold is a good solution to this but it isn’t ideal.
The hinge strips that are now available in the online store are essentially like my hinged pages only without the page attached. I start with a strip of 100lb paper and adhere a 1″ strip of thin starched fabric to that. Then, leaving a 1/4″ gap or gutter, a 1/4″ wide layer of adhesive is laid down along the outer edge of the fabric. The paper strip gets hole punched and bound by the screw posts.
There is a release paper on top of the adhesive strip that gets peeled off so that the printed page or photograph can be securely attached. When the page is turned, only 1/4″ of the back of the page is covered by the fabric hinge and the pages turn with ease and lay completely flat.
Hinge strips are available in both black and white and in 8 1/2″, 11″, 12″, 14″ and 17″ lengths.