Virginia Tech Printing Services wasn’t happy with the quality of the books coming off of its old saddle stitcher. Here’s how the in-plant turned things around.

By Bob Neubauer

“It didn’t trim three sides, it didn’t give us tight enough folds and it didn’t have vacuum feed in the pockets,” he says.

Plus it was slow.

“We wanted a better quality job, we wanted more dependable feeding on it and we wanted a little more speed,” he says.

The Search Begins

So he and his staff started researching available stitchers on the Internet. One model quickly grabbed their attention: The Standard Horizon StitchLiner. It was a collator, folder, stitcher and trimmer all in one. Tyree took some of his operators and foremen to visit another print shop with a StitchLiner.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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