Digital Press Beefs Up Barnard’s Binding Options

“The previous machine we were using didn’t have a saddle-stitch trimming finisher and had a small bookletmaker,” he recalls. “While it would produce up to 65 pages [per minute], we were not able to trim, so we would use that press for short-run booklets that didn’t require edge trimming.”

Anderson also notes that both the C6500 and C7000 presses have allowed the in-plant to bring more work in-house—jobs previously sent to outside printers. Some of the products it produces include 11x17˝ bleed posters, postcards (the press can gang eight-up on a 13x19˝ sheet), booklets, shorter-run folding jobs and variable data work.