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

“My people that do the binding were thoroughly impressed with the machine,” Tyree says.

Not only was it sturdy, it boasted vacuum feeding, three-side trimming and scoring.

“It was really what we were looking for,” he says.

So Tyree wrote up bid specs to fit the StitchLiner. He faced a few questions from the university (why was scoring necessary, for example), but eventually it went out for bid.

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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.

Stitcher Upgrade Boosts Quality of Books