Spiral Binding

We’ve worked with Doug at Spiral Binding for many years and have had nothing but great service. He has consistently gone out of his way to provide exactly what we have needed. Highest recommendations!

I needed a binding over 11 inches and few people offer that. Very helpful owner willing to share knowledge and advice but I knew what I wanted when I went in. I received professional results. Glad to have the entrance picture on Unilocal so I knew where to go in. Will definitely return when I have similar projects. Happy that he treated my small job very carefully.

This place does not keep regular hours and looks more like some guy’s filthy garage than a real business. I came here because I found out, after a few days of frustration, that this is the only place in San Francisco that can do certain kinds of large format (wider than 11″) binding. But picking up my work and seeing the frayed cuts, dented paper, and greasy fingerprints made it pretty clear that the owner of this place does not care about my work nor his.

Doug is amazing! This place is definitely a hole in the wall! Amazing service! I finally found this place after searching all over online and so thankful that I did. If you ever need any bulk stack of paper cut or bound, this is the place to go. My job was done wrong in the beginning but Doug fixed it all up for me and was very careful to fix it. He’s very patient and a delight.
All the machines they use are old school shop materials which provides for more customization and precision in my opinion. Doug made sure to make everything precise and as asked. Make sure you call in to catch him though!
The entrance doesn’t feel like an entrance. It’s literally a working shop so don’t back away because you think you’re at the wrong place!

The name says it all «Spiral Binding» that’s what they do. I have used them for years and never had a problem. They used to work with only larger printing companies but I think they are now doing some smaller jobs now.

Spiral Binding is the best! Doug is so helpful, a great teacher and very funny. The space is interestingly laid out and the equipment is old, but so is the art of book binding.

Very helpful and friendly. Only negative thing is the location; middle of nowhere.

I don’t understand why someone would give this place a bad review, I’ve been using them for the past few years and they’ve been fantastic. Doug is always friendly and extremely helpful. He makes sure my books are bound exactly the way I need them to be and he also gets the job done quickly. If you need your books spiral bound, this is the place to go!

Once when I was a student they did a custom spiral binding for a small run. It looked great. They usually don’t do this but the owner was expecting us at the end of our semester. Its been a few years already so I forgot his name but he was very friendly.

These guys do wonderful (commercial) spiral binding. The shop is like stepping into a nineteenth-​century industrial revolution storybook.