Years after the Green Button Revolution changed the way we print, that same concept is now coming to the bindery.

By Al Boese

In the late 20th century, the Green Button Revolution was already manifesting itself in other ways. Office copiers were moving toward a green button state, increasingly deploying touch pad controls to select the myriad options available to the operator. Along the way, these machines were becoming multifunctional in ways that the old office mimeograph user could not have imagined.