Binding Machines Buying Guide

Question by Jim: Where can I find the old style pressed penny books? The kind that had clear plastic pages, not a trifold.?
These are books for collecting your smashed or elongated pennies of the type you get in machines outside souvenir shops or at tourist attractions. They were small books with several plastic pages and had a hard plastic binding. Inside you could slip the coin completely in to the plastic sleeves on each page. Seems like the only ones available for purchase anymore are trifolds where you slip in the coins but the plastic only covers the middle of the coin. These new kinds are also tall, and the old one I’m looking for was more squarish. I have three of these, one from Wall Drug, one from Oregon and one from San Francisco. Do they not make these anymore? I just don’t care for the new ones being sold.

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Answer by csc12794
i dont have a clue

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Question by Amy G: Plastic binder cover sheets through the inkjet? Is it safe?
I was wondering if it was possible to run a plastic binder cover (like the kind you use with a comb binding machine) through my printer? I’m not sure if the ink would even actually stick to it… or if it might even melt in my new printer? I have a new Kodak ESP3… so I don’t want to mess it up! Anyone know? I know you can buy clear sheets made for the inkjet printers… but I didn’t know if these were different… Thanks in advance.

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Answer by sosguy
The ink won’t stick to it.

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Question by Cookie777: If you have a binding machine at home for plastic comb bindings?
What kind of binding machine is it? I’m on a budget but was thinking of buying one before Christmas to make copies of activity books to give away.

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Answer by wunderful2nite
gbc ProClick P50 – got it online from continental printing supplies.
totally love it. use it all the time for everything from picture books to keeping info together that a staple won’t hold.
it cost less than 0.

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These are books for collecting your smashed or elongated pennies of the type you get in machines outside souvenir shops or at tourist attractions. They were small books with several plastic pages and had a hard plastic binding. Inside you could slip the coin completely in to the plastic sleeves on each page. Seems like the only ones available for purchase anymore are trifolds where you slip in the coins but the plastic only covers the middle of the coin. These new kinds are also tall, and the old one I’m looking for was more squarish. I have three of these, one from Wall Drug, one from Oregon and one from San Francisco. Do they not make these anymore? I just don’t care for the new ones being sold.

I was wondering if it was possible to run a plastic binder cover (like the kind you use with a comb binding machine) through my printer? I’m not sure if the ink would even actually stick to it… or if it might even melt in my new printer? I have a new Kodak ESP3… so I don’t want to mess it up! Anyone know? I know you can buy clear sheets made for the inkjet printers… but I didn’t know if these were different… Thanks in advance.