How to select the best ring style and size for your Legal Binders Now

When selecting whether to use a round ring or D-ring construction in your binder, you need to consider two factors:

• the number of pages that will be stored in the binder
• whether the binder will be heavily used.

D-ring binders have 25% greater capacity than round ring binders and also allow the pages to lie flat. They are used for applications that require frequent access to documents and for storage and organization of a larger number of documents in the binder. Estimated capacities for the different ring sizes are:

The page capacities are calculated using 20 lb. paper stock

To measure the capacity of the rings:

Measure the ring capacity of a round ring metal by measuring the horizontal inside diameter of the ring.

Measure the capacity of D-ring metals by measuring the inside straight dimension of the ring.