The Heavyweights Square Off

Though FitzSimons concedes that there are some situations where saddle stitching and/or cover binding would be fine, overall he didn't feel a 9110 was a good fit for his shop.

"They [Heidelberg] try to steer you to saddle stitch or cover bind because they just plain don't have the tape," he says. For his shop's needs, Xerox's in-line tape binding is extremely efficient, FitzSimons says—especially for the directories and manuals that make up much of his 6180's workload.