Know When to Upgrade Your Collator
“It served to back up my point to my boss that we needed to replace this thing,” says Harty.
Last fall the 13-employee in-plant did exactly that. It installed a 20-bin, two-tower Duplo 5000 collator with an inline stitcher/folder/trimmer. Here’s how it all happened.
The Decision to Upgrade
The Duplo 8000 had served the in-plant well for 12 years, but its age was definitely showing.
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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.