Digital Technology And the Bindery

Equipment vendors have been racing to market with fleets of JDF-ready products. It’s interesting to note that some of our earliest JDF adopters are progressive in-plants, eager to bring the power of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) to all areas of their production workflow.

The pace of change in the bindery used to be slow; printers could “make do” with older equipment. Those days are gone. The rapid adoption of digital technology in post-press is leading in-plants to choose: modernize the bindery to stay competitive, or operate older systems that add a high labor burden and watch those jobs migrate out-of-house. The technology revolution that has been quietly building in the bindery has become a strong call to action.IPG