The Flat Sheet Alternative

More and more printers are realizing significant advantages to the vacuum collator/saddle stitiching approach:

• First, there are fewer off-line bindery steps and less material transport between the steps. With flat sheet collating, you print, cut and load the collator, and the stitching, folding and face trimming are quickly completed in-line. With the traditional method, you print, perforate/fold, then load the signatures into an in-line system that gathers them onto a saddle and stitches them. In-line or off-line three-side trimming completes the process.