Harlequin Takes
 a Novel Approach

"With 95 percent of our books in the same format, and few changeovers associated with our production process, we felt we could target a higher degree of automation and inline processing than we had seen elsewhere," Reindl adds.

The digital printer is not the limiting factor, however. Some of the finishing processes limit capacity, like the stacker that takes printed signatures and stacks them into book blocks.