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title: "Binding and finishing | Printing glossary | IN TEMPO"
description: "All the operations that, after printing, give the book its final form: folding the sheets into sections, gathering them, sewing or gluing, putting on the cover, trimming. On a specification sheet or a quote, the binding line says how the book is bound, for instance “Perfect binding” or “Sewn”."
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# Binding and finishing

Also called finishing, binding

All the operations that, after printing, give the book its final form: folding the sheets into sections, gathering them, sewing or gluing, putting on the cover, trimming. On a specification sheet or a quote, the binding line says how the book is bound, for instance “Perfect binding” or “Sewn”.

## In practice

Compare two quotes with the same binding and finishing, and have this line spelled out before you compare prices: the binding, glued or sewn, the adhesive planned for a perfect binding, a soft or a hard cover, the flaps, the endpapers. “Perfect binding” on its own does not say which adhesive is planned.

## Related terms

- [Perfect binding](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/dos-carre-colle/)
- [Sewn binding](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/dos-carre-cousu/)
- [Hardback](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/couverture-cartonnee/)
- [Flaps](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/rabats/)
- [Print embellishment](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/ennoblissement/)

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