HomeBinder

Most homes and office now have desktop printers which can output high quality printed text and graphics.

However, these usually come out on A4 sheets of paper.

Existing solutions to gathering and securing a stack of such sheets are inelegant to say the least. From a paperclip, to a staple, even a row of 5 staples down the let hand margin; through to ring-binders or those strange spring-loaded binders that retain the pages by friction alone, all have an air of office temporariness about them.

This proposed product is in the form of a professionally produced hardback book, with cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers, and glued in headband. However, instead of pages, this book has 1cm wide stubs, the upper side of each of which has on it a self-adhesive strip with a pull-off protective cover.

So next time you print out 100 emails between you and your paramour, you can pop down to the local stationary shop and buy a HomeBinder, A4 size, 100 pages.

Instructions:
- Open the book
- The enclosed plastic frame clips over the inside of the back cover, aligning the page corners and holding the first stub out and the others held back
- Remove the cover from the self-adhesive strip
- Lay the final page of your printout into the plastic frame
- turn the next stub down
- repeat until you are done.

Special gold letters (perhaps self-adhesive, perhaps pressure-transfer) are available for spine-titling. The plastic frame would be sold separately.

The product would be available in A4 and A3 sizes, with 50 pages, 100 pages, 200 and 500 page options.

Problems: how to stop the spine swelling and being too fat? Perhaps use super-thin Japanese paper for the stubs? Perhaps develop a machine that rolls along the edge of a sheet of paper stripping off half the thickness?

Leather and vellum bindings available at massively extra cost.