Overview:    The E-TitanWire-L is an ultra heavy duty wire bindingsystem with an electric basket mould punch. This machine is produced by DocumentFinishing Group (DFG for short).It is easily one of the best built and strongest pieces of wire binding equipment available anywhere.  Justlike the ETitanWire, the ETitanWireL is known for its durableconstruction, large punching capacity, heavy duty wire closer and hugenumber of other great features.These things help to set the E-TitanWire-L apart from other similar heavy duty electric wire binding punches on the market.    Strengths / Features:    This machine has one of the largest punch capacitiesavailable on a desktop double loop wire binding system. DocumentFinishing Group's Turbopunch technology allows the ETitanWireL tohandle up to 28 sheets of 20lb bond paper per cycle. This largepunching capacity helps to increase productivity and is designed tomake binding your documents easier than ever.TheE-TitanWireL is made almost entirely of steel and other heavy dutymetals.

The document table, base, wire closer, internal components andthe handle are all made of metal. The heavy duty construction of thismachine helps to ensure that this machine will remain strong afteryears of punching and binding.This machine is designed topunch a 2:1 pitch rectangular hole pattern. This hole pattern iscompatible with standard 2:1 pitch wires and special small sized two toone pitch wire binding spines. However, it is unfortunately notcompatible with other types of binding spines or supplies.TheDFG E-Titan Wire L has one of the most durable wire closing devicesavailable on a combination wire binding system. The closer has twoheavy duty knobs that are designed to allow you to adjust the closingdistance so that every spine is closed evenly. It also utilizes twoprecision machined blocks of steel to assist in the closing the wirespines with the utmost accuracy and without the need for sandpaper.TheETitanWireL also includes a continuous punching guide, 21 fullydisengageable punching dies, a document sizing system for choosing theright size of spines, a foot pedal punch activator and a depth of punchmargin control.    Weaknesses / Limitations:    The ETitanWire-L is a 2:1 pitch wire binding machine.

This means that it punches two holes per inch and is compatible withall of the sizes of two to one pitch wire spines. This means that thismachine can be used to bind documents from 1/4" up to 1-1/4" indiameter. It cannot be used to bind documents that are larger than1-1/4" and is not compatible with any other binding style other thantwin loop wire.Unfortunately, the EtitanWireL only has aneleven inch punching throat. Other heavy duty electric wire bindingmachines such as the WireMac E have a fourteen inch punching throat forhandling legal sized documents. This machine is not ideal for bindinglegal sized documents, A4 paper or 11" x 17" sheets.Like theEtitanWire, the ETitanWire-L is missing a spine hanger. This means thatoperators will need to manually thread their pages onto the wirespines. If you have ever attempted to do this you know just how tediousit can be. Therefore, organizations who do purchase this machine willmost likely want to come up with some type of device to assist inhanging their pages on the spines. Although the closingdevice on this machine is extremely durable, it is inconvenientlylocated on the top of the machine.

This makes it much harder to usethan a closer that is on the front of a machine. Operators will need tolift their documents up and place them into the wire closer withoutallowing the pages to fall off the spines. This can be extremely hardto accomplish, even for seasoned binding machine operators.    Recommendation:    The Document Finishing Group ETitanWire-L is one of thebest constructed and most feature rich wire binding machines that isavailable anywhere.It includes a large punching capacity, a heavy duty wire closer and a huge number of other great features.However,the fact that it is missing a wire hanger and has a limited punchingwidth puts this machine at a slight disadvantage when compared with theAkiles WireMac E. The WireMac-E includes most of the samegreat features as the ETitanWireL but also includes a wire hanger, alegal sized punching throat and a wire closer that is mounted to thefront of the machine. Plus it costs about the same amount.