Filing season arrives all at once: a year of invoices, a tender document, the contracts the ministry wants in a lever-arch file. A light desk punch meets a stack like that by bending the paper, missing the second hole, and then sticking. A heavy-duty punch is a different machine — long lever, wide base, a paper guide so hole two lines up with hole one on every sheet. Two holes is the spacing that ring files and lever-arch folders here are built around.
— The Ghalyh team · How we pick
Good for
Year-end invoice filing · tender and contract sets · an office that punches every day
Not for
A quiet home desk with a few pages a week — this is bigger, heavier and needs its own space, and a small punch does that job for less. It punches two holes only, so a four-ring binder isn't its file.
Specifications
- Holes
- Two
- Lever
- Long, for leverage over a stack
- Base
- Wide and flat, with a paper guide
Questions people ask
How many sheets at once?
Go by the sheet figure listed on this page, and treat it as a ceiling rather than a target — punching a little under it keeps the holes clean and the lever easy.
Does it match the files sold here?
It punches the two-hole pattern that ring files and lever-arch folders use, so punched pages drop straight onto the rings.