Paper Cutters Honing a Competitive Edge

Significant Gains From CIP4

Whether it's done digitally or not, there are significant gains to be made from linking postpress operations to upstream processes, asserts Rob Kuehl, marketing director for Polar Cutting Systems, at Heidelberg USA. Since as much as 80 percent of the cost of a job already is in the sheet by the time it reaches the bindery, waste becomes very expensive at that point, Kuehl says. The bindery has to find a way to make the materials it is given work. This is typically done by throwing people at the job to make adjustments to the sheets, he adds.