A lot of small or home based businesses often find that, in order tokeep costs down, they might need to start looking into doing their owndocument binding. If you are in the market for a spiral coil bindingmachine that will see relatively light use, you may want to take a lookat the Akiles Rubicoil. It's a fine entry-level machine that can see alot of projects through. Here is a close screw barrel manufacturer look at this machine's plusesand minuses, along with a final recommendation.

Pros: The price. At less than two hundreddollars this is one of the most affordable coil binders on the market.If you are just getting started binding your own documents, theRubicoil is a great place to start, allowing you to get your feet wetwithout getting soaked.This machine is "hand neutral"meaning that it is as easy for left handers to use as it is forrighties. Believe it or not, most coil binding machines handles arelocated on the right side of the machine, making it pretty difficultfor lefties to comfortably use them.

The steel dies that theRubicoil uses are pretty hardy, and pack a pretty good punch, as itwere. Able to punch up to ten sheets of normal 20lb paper, or up to twoclear cover sheets. This is pretty good capacity for the price. Ifyou judge by the product photos you see in catalogs or the web, youmight get the idea that the Rubicoil is of plastic construction. Youwill be pleasantly surprised, however, to find out that it is made ofmetal and more durable than it might appear.

We're not saying that youare going to be finding it on any major production floors, but forlight duty, it should fit the bill just fine. Cons: The Rubicoil has a punch, but nomotorized rollers, which are helpful when you are trying to insert thecoils. For just a very few documents, this is not a huge problem, butany more than that and you are looking at some serious tedium.Becausethere are no disengageable dies, you will be stuck using letter sizedpaper only, for the most part. If you try any other size, you will endup with incomplete holes on the ends.

A4 is possible, however, with thepurchase of a few extra pins. On account of this machinebeing designed to bind only thinner documents, Akiles did not include adepth of margin control on the Rubicoil. For most people this won't bea problem. However, it is something that you may want to note.You will have to buy your own crimping pliers, as they are not included. Recommendation: As a well put togethermachine at a very reasonable price, the Rubicoil would make a nicechoice for a person or small business that is looking to get intospiral coil binding. There is not a lot of flexibility involved withthis machine, and the process will be on the slow side, but as an entryinto very low-volume spiral coil binding, you can't really go wrongwith this machine.

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