Harlequin Takes
 a Novel Approach

"Many digital printers print the books and then do the finishing off-line," says Reindl. This eliminates the risk that downstream jams in folding, stacking, binding and cutting will impede the printing.

"We wanted to do it differently, with all of our production inline," says Reindl. "We needed a solution that would allow us to move book blocks from one part of the production process to another. But the book blocks are still loose signatures. The importance of getting the book blocks out of the folder and to the binder without the blocks tipping over, and maintaining their stability, was a critical part of the process. We searched and found only one solution that would allow us to do this."