New CMU Stitcher: ‘It Just Flies’

By Bob Neubauer

When Central Michigan University Printing Services replaced its old six-pocket friction-feed stitcher with a 10-pocket vacuum-feed Muller Martini Minuteman, Director Rhonda Kohler says it was like upgrading from an economy car to a luxury sedan.

“It’s so nice,” enthuses Kohler. “It cuts the time in half.”

The old stitcher could not keep up with the increasing demand for booklets at the Mt. Pleasant, Mich.-based in-plant, she says. Plus, the device could not handle undersized signature stitch-ins.

Everything is different now.

“You can adjust the vacuum in the different pockets so that it can pick up those undersized signatures, and it just flies,” she says of the new Minuteman. The in-plant can now keep more work in-house as a result, she says.

“For bindery, I think Muller’s got a wonderful reputation,” she lauds. “The name speaks for itself. It speaks of quality.”

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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.