Design Blueprint: Saddle Stitch Wire
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121530): This paper addresses a practical question in clinch: the saddle-stitched booklet, folded sheets nested inside one another and stapled through the fold, is the workhorse binding of small publishing. Using a self-contained computation from stated assumptions, the study evaluates the options across the range a small operation ordinarily meets and identifies the point at which the balance of cost, quality and material use changes. The headline findings are that leg for 32 pages mm is 6; leg for 64 pages mm is 8; max pages for 6mm leg is 48. These figures come from a simulation study: the work is S Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225797371
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