Bostitch Office No-Jam Booklet Stapler, 20 Sheets, No-Jam Technology, Black (B440SB)

Used this to make DIY wedding programs for our special day, and it was PERFECT! By lining up the top and bottom we had consistent and easy staple-placement, and looked professionally done. This guy is heavy duty, quite versatile with projects, and uses standard staples so it is extremely accessible. Would recommend!

So far so good! I just used it today for the first time right at the printers. I had booklets that needed to be put together for mailing. The staples are right where they should be on the fold. It got the job done. Now I have to see how long it will last. It saved me money fromhaving them stapled by the print shop.

The shape makes stapling folded booklets much easier than the long flat style. It is solid and does not jam.

It blows me away how perfectly this stapler is designed and built. My first project was 5 sheets of 28 lb. letter-sized paper folded in half to make a 20-page booklet; adjust your expectations accordingly. I ordered the recommended staples but ended up using a cheap no-name product we had on hand because they were just a tad shorter and looked better. I had no mis-fires; my technique is to line up and give it a whack rather than a polite push.The gadget is well made. The metal is plenty strong - no sense of flimsy - and the stapler itself opens 180 degrees (and stays open) to fill. There are appropriate anti-slip pads where they need to be.Centering the staple exactly at the fold turned out to be fairly easy. The folded booklet nestles nicely on the ridge and comes close to no-brainer perfect alignment but if you want perfection spread your positioning hand over the booklet, pushing away from the ridge with fingers on one side, thumb on the other, and feel the booklet snug into place. If you're aligning your paper with the edge of the stand to place the staple a reasonable distance from the edge, you can also glance at the "peak" of your booklet relative to the peak of the stapler's ridge. If you don't do that you'll generally be dead on or within a staple-thickess off.A plus for storage between uses - it's more compact that it looked in the picture (and Amazon's stated product dimensions are often meaningless) - but it comes in a re-usable box that's about 5x5x12 or so.

Easy to use, does not come with staples, so make sure you order some separately. I found it easy enough to operate and insert the staples, its just a regular stapler on a different base. I was able to get the staples perfectly placed on the spine of the pamphlet after a few practice tries. It’s smaller than it looks online, the whole thing has a footprint smaller than a piece of printer paper. All in all a very useful item, I’ve been wanting one for ages and this fits the bill.

Like some people who bought this "saddle stapler", I initially had great difficulty getting it to staple properly. When I made the purchase of the stapler itself, I also ordered a box of the recommended Bostitch staples. Just wanted to be ABSOLUTELY SURE that I had the correct staples to use in it.Well, what "torture" I went through trying to get this device to staple small booklets I was attempting to assemble. The staples had to only go through a cover and eight pages of regular 20 lb. paper. It just would not work and jammed repeatedly, although the staples did actually fit into the stapler.On a hunch, I decided to try other staples I had in the house. Found some old "Stanley-Bostitch" staples that were laying around and they worked so much better! Having said that though, I only had found enough to do 50% of the current job. At this time, I noticed that the "Model #s" of the two kinds of staples were different.To make the blame thing of some benefit to me, I decided to search all over my city for the old type of staples. Six major retailers later, I could not locate 'em. Finally decided to do a search on the internet to see if I could find a supplier of the "OLD" staples I had on hand (that worked). I did find such a supplier and ordered a supply of 20,000 - hoping & praying that these would actually work in this saddle stapler when they arrived.They were delivered here yesterday by courier, and lo and behold, they do indeed work quite well. The moral of this story is that you MUST have the exact, specific staple in order for this machine to work. DO NOT depend on the advice of the manufacturer as it pertains to which staple to use.Both the staple that works (Model # SBS19 1/4CP) and the one that doesn't work (Model # SB35 1/4 - 5M) are made by Bostitch (sometimes referred to as STANLEY BOSTITCH). Just as an aside, the "1/4" refers to the length of the staple leg and I believe that the 1/4" size is the length you should always purchase for this stapler. The "CP" refers to a type of staple called a "Chisel Point". The chisel point style of staple penetrates the paper better and I always try to buy this type when purchasing staples.In a certain sense, it was just a fluke that I discovered how to make this saddle stapler work half decently. No thanks to the ding-dongs at Bostitch!

All the functionality of a long arm stapler and then some. With the saddle staple arrangement you don't have to worry about getting the staple just right - it's automatic. Solid steel construction, very well made, and surprisingly small size. If you believe in the philosophy "buy the best and you'll only cry once" buy this one. It's worth the price if you want to staple a lot of booklets.

Used this for sing-along lyric booklets and it worked great. Had a few “misfires” before I got the proper technique down, after that, smooth sailing, no jams. On the advice of another reviewer, I also got the Bostitch SBS1914CP staples to use with it. Did about 200 booklets with no issues.