Binding Methods - The Gallery Calendar - Self-led Brief

I began researching different binding methods for the calendar and came up with several options.

1. Ring Binding - could look professional, traditional, easy to use - suites the format of the calendar. Will need 2mm metal wire, pliers, single hole punch, craft knife. There will also need to be twp separate spirals so that the calendar can move freely with another metal component which will allow it to be hung up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W99DY-iHcc
2. Plastic Comb Binding - use machine in the university - could be problematic. Have conducted several tests and this machine often cuts off some of the holes. It is designed for an A4 long edge bind - not short edge.It would also require a plastic comb to keep it together - which might mean that the calendar is not as free-moving and to be hung up I would need to consider punching an additional hole in the calendar - which might not look so professional.
3. The calendar could be a 'tear off' pad, which would create a interesting effect. However, this would mean that after each month the pages of the calendar would be discarded - which would be a shame since each page will be a considered piece of artwork.
4. The calendar could be stapled together and hung from a hole. This would work well but it would also mean that the prints would have to be double sided. Since I am already undertaking quite a difficult task of screen-printing 24 prints this may be too much.
5. The calendar could be propped up with a specific type of fold. This could work well and would solve some of the problems. However, since I intend the prints to be A4, having these propped up would clutter desk space and calendar would probably be better situated pinned on the wall.
   
   
   

   

   University comb binding machine experiment.

   
   

   
   

   Out of all the methods I have researched I have to decided that spiral binding by hand will have the best possible results and should create the most authentic design. If the design was to be mass produced this technique would be replicated in a more industrial setting.