Binders in the US that have more than 3 rings

A part of my Canada Collection is into 5 Lindner Canada binders - practical but not for varieties as they show only pics of the stamps - for that much $$$$$$$ my late dad paid, he could have had better - They are nice and cuddly, all  burgundy....practical at times, not always - Nothing beats custom albums.
So I started a CANADA 1 Custom album and the classics are out of Lindner.

Lo and behold, just got in the shipment of A4 sized Grande binders, and they're nice (at 24 euros a pop, they better be, lol). I have to admit, the A4 size is really nice, and I'm committed to using metric in all future projects. There's a reason why DIN A4 is a standard.

What do you see as the advantage of A4 size from a stamp collecting aspect? Compared to US Letter, A4 is 5.9mm narrower so means less page real estate on page. What I would like to see is more sizes larger than A4/Letter, Most pre-printed stamp albums are a non-standard size.

It's hard to find specific punch #/position to meet the various album-makers, and can get really pricey if you have multiple manufacturers as they each like to "standardize" on different ring #/positions. For example, Schaubek (6 rings), Lighthouse (13 rings), Safe (14 rings), Kabe (16 rings), Lindner (18 rings) just to name a few.

Consider getting an adjustable/upgradeable hole punch, not the fixed #/position punches.

On the adjustable/upgradeable hole punches, there are individual punch modules that you can shift position on the rod. You can also add punch modules as needed to make it 2, 3, 4... holes -- theoretically as many as you can pack onto the rod, although ultimately you will be limited by the width of each punch module. I assume somewhere they still make/sell these, and I assume they probably aren't cheap either because of low sales quantities.

The last time I acquired one was 40+ years ago. They were ugly, but rugged. I could punch up to 10-20 pages at a time without deforming the holes, although I did crack one of the modules once. I'm thinking your local copy shop probably knows a vendor for these types of punches.

I actually keep a "mini-collection" of various hole punches in my storage unit. Most of them were discarded by engineering firms and other offices as they moved or shut down -- nowadays, they have a fire sale instead of just letting people take stuff they don't use anymore. It's interesting to see the different methods they used to make a hole punch multi-functional to meet 2-11 hole styles and different paper sizes that were used in various fields/applications.

Best wishes on finding one you need...

I guess the OP was about binders, rather than hole punches, but this may still be relevant. Agreed, the US punches make large holes. However, I prefer that as it makes bulk page turning (20-30 pages) smoother.

On my old-style commercial hole punches, I can adjust the paper edge guide, so in essence shift the holes vertically on the page. So if I wanted to, I can punch 8 holes (every other hole), shift, and punch the other 8 holes to make 16 holes. Then I don't have to worry about whether I can pack the modules tight enough. Same can be done for odd number of holes. It should be batches, as adjusting the paper edge guide takes a little "testing" each adjustment. I don't actually do this for stamp album pages, but it shouldn't matter what kind of page I'm punching.

And yeah, I didn't think they were cheap, especially now as there are probably only a handful of companies that make them commercially. It's the digital age, and commercial hole punches are going the way of the buggy whip. Also, the modules vary by manufacturer and aren't interchangeable. Guess the hole punch manufacturers and the album page manufacturers got a racket going!

Your mileage will vary depending on the shop of course, but I've found a great local print shop and he's done some custom orders for me at reasonable prices/quick turnaround.

In Italy there are several suppliers of philatelic materials, but we have a completely different standard.
Album pages are usually 27x29 cm, wider than a normal A4 sheet. And they have 22 holes. Bolaffi makes pages a tittle bit bigger, i don't know the size in cm, but 24 holes. The 24 holes have the same step then the 22 ones, but they're higher.
Usual 4 holes binder that can be normally found for office supplies doesn't match with the 22/24 holes, so you're forced to buy specific binders.
If you can easily find 4 holes punches, it's pretty impossible to find 22 holes ones.

Now i don't want to turn it into a commercial advertissement, but i cannot not to suggest this site www.philatelio.it
It's the site of a friend of mine, Luciano, which is also registered on the forum.
He works as graphic close to typographies. The idea is that for him, to print an album page whatever size is needed with whatever perforation (from 3 to 24 holes) is not that different. He's able to provide album for almost every country in the world (if not all, most of them), but he can also print pages with a specific format supplied by the customer as PDF file.
The pages are of high quality and the cost of such personalized printed pages is not so expansive, compared with the cost of preparing the same page at home, and at least worth the expanse to evaluate them.

I don't know which can be the shipment cost outside Italy, but my suggestion is to consider this solution.

The site is in italian, but if you could be interested, please send him an email with your request.

Another solution to this, I think, is using a 1 hole puncher. All you have to do is using another 4 hole punched paper as the template and then using a 1 hole puncher to align with the existed hole and punch other paper match with the template.