The Titancoil includes an electric

• The Titancoil includes an electric spiral coil inserter on the top of the machine. This is an extremely handy feature to have on a manual coil binding machine. It helps to spin the coils onto the Nike Shox Dreams,edge of your documents. However, the design of the coil inserter on this machine has a few issues that make it less effective than other coil inserters on the market. The inserter on the Titan-Coil uses only one spinning rollers and is only six inches in length. Higher quality coil inserters utilize two rollers and longer lengths to make inserting go faster. The design of this inserter limits it to books that are less than 22mm in size. Larger coils will need to be inserted by hand.
• Although most of the components on this machine are made from high quality steel, there are a few pieces that are not nearly as durable. The spine measuring device, the edge guide and the depth of punch margin control adjustments are all made of plastic. The plastic depth of punch control or spine measurer shouldn't be a huge deal. However, the edge guide on a machine like this gets a lot of use. It would be a lot better if this edge guide was made of metal for durability and accuracy.
• The foot pedal used for the coil inserter on this machine is also not nearly as larger or durable as the foot pedals included on other similar pieces of binding equipment that are on the market. Depending on how much you use this machine and how hard you step on the foot pedal this is a component that may eventually need replacement.
• The final limitation that I noticed with the TItancoil is that the chip tray on this machine is fairly small. This isn't a huge deal. It just means that you need to remember to empty the chads from the tray more often in order to ensure that they don't back up inside the punching mechanism.

Recommendation:

• The overall construction and feature set of the DFG TitanCoil is actually quite excellent. Document Finishing Group has utilized a number of high quality metal components and included features on this machine that are simply not available on most other coil binding machines.
• However, there are a few limitations and concerns that I have with this machine. In my opinion, for most companies the Nike Shox R4,Akiles CoilMac ECI is a slightly better choice than the DFG TitanCoil. The only exception is if your organization needs to bind custom sized documents. The TitanCoil is a better choice for that application.