Graph Expo A Pleasant Surprise

The big news from Bell & Howell was its plan to expand its service offerings and begin providing service and parts for competitors' inserting systems. At its booth, the company showed off its DemandWorks Perfect Binding Systems, built to handle short, personalized on-demand jobs. The systems measure a book's thickness and automatically trim, adjust score lines and press to create a quality book without the need for three-knife trimming. A patented cover trimming and scoring mechanism allows the system to handle books with varying page counts within the same job.