Saddlestitch - Is It Your Niche?

Digital printing's force is also being felt within the finishing industry. Vendors report they are seeing a high demand for short-run jobs to be bound. Personalized documents are giving in-plants no room for production errors in the bindery.

"The tolerance for waste or for mis-stitched books is dropping," says Hunt of Standard Finishing. "Customers are no longer willing to pay the extra amount to overprint jobs."