Stitching sections of a tabloid newspaper

1. A method for forming a printed product comprising the steps of:

providing a first section and a second section of the printed product with an identical array of stitching locations, each stitching location receiving a stitch or being punched through;

punching a hole in the first section at a first stitching location;

punching a hole in the second section at a second stitching location;

aligning the stitching location arrays of the first and second sections with each other;

passing stitching material of a first stitch through the hole in the second section at the second stitching location; and

stitching the first section with the first stitch at the second stitching location.

2. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 1 wherein at each aligned stitching location only one section receives a stitch, the remaining sections each receive a punch at the corresponding aligned stitching location.

3. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 1 wherein the first and second sections are stitched at the same time, the second section receiving a stitch at the first stitching location.

4. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 1 wherein the first and second sheets or sections are stitched at different times or in repeat steps.

5. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of folding the stitched sections with an inline folding device.

6. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 1 wherein each section receives a plurality of stitches at a plurality of stitching locations and the remaining stitching locations are punched through.

7. The method for forming a printed product as recited in claim 6 wherein each section is stitched at two stitching locations and the remaining stitching locations are punched through.