When your business is looking for the very best in document binding and production, you could hardly do better than Unibind. Unibind offers that perfect bound, bookstore-ready look and is one of the most professional and permanent ways to bind and present your most important presentations, reports, and proposals. Before you make the choice to go with Unibind, here are five things you will want to know about their patented process.

1. Using a u-shaped steel spine into which the pages of your presentation, proposal or report are glued, Unibind provides a remarkably durable and long-lasting binding for your document. All you have to do is to place the pages within the spine. The Unibind machine does the rest, heating the glue and permanently adhering the pages to the spine.

2. Unibind offers several different supplies for their binding process. Here are a few of the options they offer that you should know about:

* Photobooks. These are the most distinguished looking of all the Unibind products, giving that off-the-bookstore shelf appearance. This would be a great idea for your high-end proposals and presentations. Photobooks are usually bound in a landscape orientation and often come with a window in the front cover.

* Steelbook Hardcovers. These are a quick and relatively easy way to produce hard cover documents. The process takes just seconds, and have Unibind's own steel strip hidden in the spine of the book, making it extra long lasting and rugged.

* Steelmat and Steelcrystal Covers. These are simply a steel spine with frosted or clear covers attached. They give a slightly more upscale look to your average report or presentation, while leaving the first and last pages visible.

* Steelback spines are just the spines without the covers. So if your covers have already been produced, this might be the choice for you. The spines come with adhesive that you simply strip the protective paper off of and they are ready to use.

3. Unibind offers supplies for presentations and publications both big and small, from an inch and a half thick to just a handful of pages. With such a variety of spines to choose from, it is very important that you pick the right size for your presentation. You don't want to be stuck with extra room in the spine, nor do you want to find yourself trying to stuff pages into a spine that is not big enough. Unibind does have a sizing guide you can use to help assure that you don't run into these problems.

4. A wide variety of colors are also available for Unibind's spines and covers, making it easy to match your company's logo, or that of an important client. This kind of color customization is perfect for design firms and marketing agencies. Custom colors are also available by special order but can take 10-12 weeks and require minimum orders.

5. Quick, rugged and long-lasting is the name of the game when it comes to Unibind-bound documents. One of the fastest binding methods available, there are Unibind machines that can bind dozens of books at a time. The capacity of your machine will be determined by the number and size of heaters that it has. Low volume users will choose a machine with one heater while the highest volume users may choose a machine with as many as ten heaters.