How to Bind - PrintShop Mini

How to bind BINDING

This service puts your prints in a heat-binding cover and melts the glue with heat to make them into a book. The order is: choose a cover and pay → warm up → put it in the machine → timer → cool for 10+ minutes. Great for theses · reports · contracts.

▶Watch the binding video first No sound needed

📖 What is heat binding?

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It uses glue. No hole punching, no springs or strings.
Put the pages in so their edges touch the glue inside the cover, and the binder's heat melts the glue to stick them.
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Each cover has a set number of sheets it can hold. You can put in only up to the number written on the cover. (Depending on the store, it's written as '매' or '장'. Both mean "sheets".)
There are 20 · 40 · 60 · 80 · 100 · 120 · 150 · 180 · 200-sheet covers.
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The price is 1,500 won per cover, no matter how thick.
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Too few sheets can't be bound.
e.g.) 5 or 10 sheets won't work even with a 2mm cover. The empty space at the glued edge is too big, so it won't stick.
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No cover that exactly fits your number of sheets?
Take 2 covers close in thickness to your number of sheets, try your pages in each, and use the one that leaves less empty space.
e.g.) For 110 sheets, try both the 10mm and 12mm covers.

🔀 This machine (SAFA-BM100) is a laminating · binding machine in one

Binding covers go in the long slot on top. The lower (front) slot is for laminating pouches only. Pouches are explained in the laminating guide.

SAFA-BM100 laminating · binding machine: the long top slot is for binding covers; the lower front slot is for laminating pouches

🧾 Before you start binding!

First choose a heat-binding cover that fits your number of sheets.e.g.) For 20 sheets, use the 20-sheet cover (2mm).
In the display case, covers are labeled 20 · 40 · 60 · 80 · 100 · 120 · 150 · 180 · 200 sheets (매/장). (Depending on the store, it's written as '매' or '장'. Both mean "sheets".)🤔 No cover that exactly fits your number of sheets?
Take 2 covers close in thickness to your number of sheets, try your pages in each, and use the one that leaves less empty space.
e.g.) For 110 sheets, try both the 10mm and 12mm covers.
Check that there are enough of the cover you chose, then pay at the Toss kiosk.

⚠️ Refunds for Toss kiosk payments are sent to a bank account. If you pay twice by your own mistake, we send back the amount minus the fee. Always check there are enough covers before you pay.

Choose a cover · pay first!

First choose a heat-binding cover that fits your number of sheets.e.g.) For 20 sheets, use the 20-sheet cover (2mm).
In the display case, covers are labeled 20 · 40 · 60 · 80 · 100 · 120 · 150 · 180 · 200 sheets (매/장). (Depending on the store, it's written as '매' or '장'. Both mean "sheets".)🤔 No cover that exactly fits your number of sheets?
Take 2 covers close in thickness to your number of sheets, try your pages in each, and use the one that leaves less empty space.
e.g.) For 110 sheets, try both the 10mm and 12mm covers.Check that there are enough of the cover you chose, then pay at the Toss kiosk.

Pressing the power button, then the heat button

Power on · warm up

Press the power button, then press the heat [온열] button once.
The light blinks, and after 3 minutes an alarm sounds and the light stops blinking. Warm-up is done.

Open the slot

Pull the cooling tray at the back of the machine to open the slot.

Cross-section of a heat-binding cover — clear PET plastic cover, paper cover, cover size (glue part)

Heat-binding cover: clear plastic front · paper back

Put your prints in the cover

Put your prints inside the heat-binding cover. Line them up so the edges touch the glue (binding line) inside evenly.
The cover has a clear plastic front and a paper back.

Standing the binding cover up and putting it into the SAFA-BM100 binding slot

Put it in the machine

Put the cover in the slot closed (glued) end first.
Push it in all the way until it won't go any further.

🚨 The back of the cover is paper. Put it in carefully so the corners don't catch on the slot and tear or get damaged.
Be even more careful with thick covers like 120–200 sheets so the cover isn't damaged.⚠️ If the cover tears because of careless handling, we can't refund or exchange it.

Start the timer

Press the timer [타이머] button.
The light blinks again, and after 1 minute an alarm sounds and the light stops blinking. Then take it out.

🚨 When taking it out too, just like step 5, pull it out carefully so the paper back of the cover doesn't catch on the slot and tear or get damaged.
If you push it in and pull it out roughly, the paper back can tear.⚠️ If the cover tears because of careless handling, we can't refund or exchange it.

Standing the bound book in the binder's cooling tray to cool

▲ Stand it in this cooling tray with the closed (glued) end down and let it cool.

Cool for 10+ minutes, then done

Never open it right after taking it out.
Put it in the cooling tray or on a flat surface and let it cool for 10+ minutes before opening.
The thicker it is, the longer than 10 minutes — wait until the side is no longer hot and the glue inside the cover has fully cooled and hardened.

📌 In the cooling tray, stand it with the closed end (glue side) down.
Don't put it in upside down.

🚨 Always let it cool! If you open it before the glue hardens, all the pages will fall out.

This page was translated from Korean. If anything looks wrong, please tell us on Naver TalkTalk. Screens on the machines are in Korean — the Korean button names are shown in [brackets].