Fastback Strip

Beautiful binding, powerful impressions

Fastback binding strips are the highest quality, on-demand binding products on the market! Fastback strips come in various styles, textures, thicknesses, and colors—so never you and your customers never have to compromise! Fastback’s revolutionary thermal strips create strong, beautiful bindings. Now you can assemble bound books and documents in seconds, saving your company time and money.

Layflat binding strips

Fastback bound documents lay flat when open for a seamless, panoramic impact. A book or document that lays flat shows-off graphics, full-bleed pages and panoramic photos; plus is easier and more enjoyable to read.

Be colorful

Fastback boasts the widest selection of colorful thermal binding strips. Colorful binding strips make your documents stand out, enable advanced organization and create opportunities for creativity.

Bind Faster

The Fastback 20 binds 3.5x faster than competitive binding systems.

Super Strong

Fastback bound documents can withstand more than 50 pounds of pull.

Layflat

Fastback Thermal Strip delivers true lay-flat binding.

Fastback binding strips are the highest quality, on-demand binding products on the market! Fastback strips come in various styles, textures, thicknesses, and colors—so never you and your customers never have to compromise! Fastback’s revolutionary thermal strips create strong, beautiful bindings. Now you can assemble bound books and documents in seconds, saving your company time and money.

Fastback Strip | Compatibility Guide

Fastback 20 Fastback 9 Fastback 15 Fastback 11
Super Strip x x x (narrow only)
Composition and CP Strip x x
Perfectback LF x x
Perfectback PS x x
Perfectback TA x x x
Image Strip x x
Image Blank x
Image Blank LX x
LX Strip x
LX Comp Strip x

Fastback Strip | Width Guide

Composition +
Super Strip
CP Strip Perfectback Strip Image Strip Image Blank LX Strip + LX Comp
Narrow width up to 0.5″ thick
~125 sheets
up to 0.3″ thick
~60 sheets
up to 0.5″ thick
~125 sheets
up to 0.7″ thick
~125 sheets
Medium width 0.5″-1.0″ thick
~125-250
0.3″-0.5″ thick
~60-125
0.5″-1.0″ thick
~125-250
0.7″-1.0″ thick
~125-250
Wide width 1″-1.5″ thick
~250-350
1″-1.5″ thick
~250-350
up to 1.5″ thick
~350
up to 1.5″ thick
~350

Fastback Strip | Colors

Super Strip Comp Strip CP Strip LX Strip LX Comp Strip
Black x x x x
Dark Blue x x x
Maroon x x x
Red x x x
White x x x x
Bright Blue x x
Dark Gray x x
Dark Green x x
Dark Brown x
Light Gray x
Purple x
Lapis x
Royal Blue x
Green x
Yellow x
PMS** x x

**The Pantone Matching System (PMS) enables you to select a true color match; 10 carton minimum.

Model 9 – Strip

  • LX Strip
  • Comp Strip LX
  • Image Blank LX
  • Image Strip
  • Perfectback TA

Model 20 – Strip

  • Super Strip
  • Comp Strip
  • CP Strip
  • Image Strip
  • Image Blank Strip
  • Perfectback LF
  • Perfectback PS
  • Perfectback TA

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