"They come right off the conveyor done," she says. "That's a huge deal for us."
It's also saving the company money.
"We're not running as much overtime because we don't have to pull people off cutting inserts," she notes.
Hohman expects the 500i to pay for itself in savings in less than a year.
Other nice features, she adds, are the intelligent multi-bin feeding function, which lets operators run a job from one tower while filling the other, and the system's ability to offset finished books in preset numbers.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.