Much Needed Maintenance on the Horizon VAC 100 Collator and Fastback Tape Binder 

I teach at a local community college in California and we had to have our print services department tape bind some books that we are using when we teach in the state prisons as they came to use as loose leaf, so needed to be bound before we could loan them to our students as we can't just but them in binders for obvious reasons. The tape binding is okay, but students had issues with the pages coming out, which was a frustration of mine, I would just tell my students to put the pages back in where the belonged so they wouldn't get lost. The books that I had that were just printed on plain copy paper that were tape bound seemed to hold up better as the pages weren't glossy.

Interesting. Tape binding certainly has a place.

That amount of glue (or lack of...) looks like this would give you single-use books unless you staple/rivet/sow the pages before binding them.

Regarding the lack of glue strength, I've seen people online write about just buying additional glue strips to add when doing the binding. Then there's this strange but cool dude on /diy/ who had stacks in their basement(?) filled with books bound with duck tape, some dating back to the 70s

@@niteman555 Stapling and then putting fabric tape over the spine to cover it and the staples was a common thing in the 70s and 80s with access to xerox machines and computer printers. I probably have such books in some boxes somewhere---I don't throw away books ever.

Good point, as long as the customer is happy with the quality!

@@justaprinter if you have to read the book a lot or it has to lay flat, it's not what you are looking for.. but most of the time the students just need something to drop of there thesis .. they won't even open the binding :)

I need to remind myself of this! :)

Yup, I like to repair when I can.

I did see those hard covers. The Fasback can do some neat stuff!

Awesome! Glad to hear!

Whatever make financial sense and what is available. I think the person using the machine and making decisions is more important.

Luckily I don't think the teeth were striped at all. It lust looked like it because of grease in the teeth. Time will tell though!

I would have, but then I would have lost the post inserter on my 1070.

Whatever you can find close by you. I have had good luck with cp bourg and I hear the standard horizon binders are nice too.

I don't know much about it. It's my understanding that this particular finisher can come bare bones with just a stacker. Or you can add on a punch or stitcher.

@@justaprinter Well at timestamp 2:43, what do you think all of those green knobs & levers are for? They indicate CRU's or customer replacement units. In my Xerox, there's a wiring harness connector. Simply put, it slides right in & you reboot your machine.

Good point. I think it will run fine as is but time will tell.

Not too sure about that. Those teeth are quite shallow and they need to hold the weight of stack of paper. The original looks like nylon on the motor side and fibre-reinforced ABS on the other. So unless you print in metal, you won't get the needed strength for it to be durable enough.

I'm located in Pennsylvania.

Luckily I don't think the teeth were striped at all. It lust looked like it because of grease in the teeth. Time will tell though!

Alibaba is about the only place.

Not that I'm aware of.

@@justaprinter Ok, By the way, I'm 23 years old doing digital printing, focusing on A3+ Label stickers, I'm from Indonesia, I'm happy with your content, thank you for sharing your lessons.

God to know. I might need to start offering it to some customers.