Hand assembly, contract packaging, and fulfillment done right — from 3PL kitting and cosmetic packing to shrink-wrapping, tipping, and mail preparation. When the job is odd, urgent, or exacting, it lands on our floor.
Whether it's padding, tipping, easeling, gluing or inserting — when you need to outsource hand assembly and packaging, we reduce your cost and hit your schedule. Creative and unusual requests are not a problem.
Multi-component kits, displays, and complete fulfillment programs that deliver on the most demanding schedules.
Retail-ready pack-out and protective finishing, from automatic polybagging to high-speed shrink lines.
Precision bindery work for the commercial printing industry, backed by decades of trade experience. Read our full bindery & finishing guide →
From cutting stock down to size to kits assembled by hand and packed ready to ship — here's how the work gets done.
We've provided high-quality bindery work, packaging, and fulfillment for decades. Modern equipment, expert service, and years of experience have made us the trusted partner printers, brands, and businesses call first — and keep calling.
Specs, samples, or just a rough idea — including the unusual ones.
A straight answer on cost and a realistic timeline, fast.
Hand or machine, checked as we go — quality is the whole point.
Palletized, packed out, mailed, or fulfilled straight to your customer.
Commercial printers who need a bindery and finishing partner they can put their name behind. Brands and businesses that need kitting, packing, and fulfillment handled start to finish. Agencies with a campaign that has to land on a date. If it needs hands, it's our kind of job.
Cutting, drilling, collating, tipping, and finishing — overflow or full-service.
Cosmetic packing, kitting, shrink-wrapping, and retail-ready pack-out.
Inserting, wafer sealing, and mail preparation that hits the drop date.
Ongoing kitting and fulfillment — we become your packing department.
Padding, drilling, glue tipping, collating, die cutting, and mounting — the finishing work Philadelphia print shops outsource so their presses keep running.
If you run a commercial print shop in Philadelphia, you already know the finishing work is where jobs get delayed. The printing is the easy part — it's the padding, drilling, gluing, and cutting afterward that eats up floor space, labor hours, and equipment budget you'd rather spend elsewhere.
Bindery and finishing covers everything that happens to a printed piece after it comes off the press and before it ships. For most Philadelphia print shops, that means:
Most print shops handle one or two of these well. Almost none handle all of them — which is exactly why bindery finishing gets outsourced.
You keep your presses running. Every hour your equipment spends on finishing work is an hour it's not running the next print job.
You skip the equipment investment. A 52" cutter, a multi-head drill, glue tipping equipment — buying and maintaining that hardware only makes sense if you're running finishing work every day.
You hit tighter deadlines. A dedicated finishing partner with the right equipment on hand can usually turn a job around faster than a print shop juggling finishing between press runs.
| Method | Best for | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Glue tipping | Reply cards, samples, single inserts | Strong, permanent bond; works on most stocks |
| Kleenstik transfer tape | Removable samples, repositionable inserts | Clean removal, no wet glue drying time |
Pocket folders are one of the more finishing-intensive jobs a print shop can run — die cutting, scoring, and gluing all have to line up precisely, or the folder won't hold inserts correctly. We run pocket folder die cutting as a standing capability, which matters when an agency needs folders for an event with a fixed date.
Call 215-634-7490 or email info@completehandassembly.com with what you're assembling, packing, or mailing — quantity, number of components, and your deadline. A sample or spec sheet helps, but a rough description is enough to start.
Both. Padding, collating, kitting and most of our services run economically at short-run and large-run volumes. Tell us the quantity and we'll quote it straight.
Creative and unusual requests are our specialty, not a problem. If it needs hands, jigs, or a process nobody else wants to figure out, that's exactly the work we've built our reputation on.
Yes — we've served the commercial printing trade for decades with cutting, drilling, collating, tipping, easeling, and full bindery support. Your job ships under your name, finished right.
It depends on the job, but most standard finishing work — padding, drilling, collating — turns around within a few business days. Rush jobs are often possible; call with your specs.
We handle both large and short runs — padding, in particular, is quoted either way. Send your quantity and we'll tell you what makes sense.
Yes. Send the specs or a sample of the finished piece and we'll match cutting, padding, or drilling dimensions.
Complete Hand Assembly and Finishing
500 East Luzerne Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124
Tell us what you're assembling, packing, kitting, or mailing — units, components, and your deadline — and we'll come back with a straight answer on price and schedule.
Send us the basics — what it is, how many, and when you need it — and we'll come back with a price and a schedule.
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