Muller Martini, Nipson Hold Open House

Muller Martini and Nipson America hosted an open house at Muller’s headquarters in Hauppauge, N.Y. With the theme “A New Day Dawns for Book Production,” the event included live demonstrations of digital book manufacturing equipment and presentations from OnDemand experts.

A complete digital book printing and binding workflow was shown in action, consisting of a Nipson VaryPress 400 duplex digital printing system along with components of the Muller Martini SigmaLine OnDemand solution. The workflow included two Nipson VaryPress 400 digital printers with EMT unwinder, StarCut sheeter/stacker from FME, a Shuttleworth Star Roller conveyor, and a SigmaBinder perfect binder, SigmaTower cooling tower and Esprit three-knife trimmer.

Perfect-bound books were produced during the event in a comprehensive in-line configuration, and, also near-line with book blocks fed by hand. SigmaBinder workflow flexibility comes from its built in measuring station that utilizes laser technology to acquire the dimensions of the in-coming book block. The electronic book size data is used to adjust the length, width and thickness settings of the binder. The result – the machine literally make-readies itself, allowing it to produce perfect-bound books at up to 1,000 fully variable-sized copies per hour.