Centre-stapling more than twenty sheets of paper (and it helps to have a saddleback stapler to do even that) is probably the max -- after that, you need to chop-and-trim.
I've produced my own copies of 200 page books (Vidocq's _Memoirs_, and Dr. William Maginn, courtesy of googlebooks, with a pasted-on covers, are possible, but tricky).
I think the bottom line is that it's pretty straightforward to produce a forty-page pamphlet, but after that, you're into investing in hardware.
A 200 page book is really fairly straightforward with a duplex printer, Dahl 515, and a decent heavy-duty stapler.
... as I say, not exactly rocket science.
R.
{And you can do exactly the same thing cheaper but with a lot more effort with a bog-standard inkjet and a Stanley knife ...}
The crunch comes in binding, and I don't think there's a way round that other than an industrial-strength stapler and *looong heavy-duty staples.
UPV glue and perfect-binding *does (pace all the people who've denied this) sort-of work, but for my own purposes, I've retreated to edge-stapling anything over forty pages.
Rodent
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