Bindery - Finishing

Most of the finishing touches at Highmark's two main Pennsylvania facilities are applied using inline equipment from C.P. Bourg. In Pittsburgh, three of the Xerox iGen4s have Bourg BMEx booklet makers with BCMEx creasers, and all three Nuvera 288 EAs at both the Pittsburgh and Camp Hill locations have Bourg BDFx finishers to stitch, fold and trim booklets, reports and various other documents.

When in-plant manager Tim Mulvey noticed that his tabletop folder was beginning to wear out, he knew it was time for a new folder. He chose a Morgana DocuFold Pro, which was installed last October at Arapahoe County Printing Services in Littleton, Colo.

Since installing a Rollem Auto 4 numbering system, the City of Spokane's in-plant can now do numbering for a variety of print jobs, including forms for the parks and recreation department and booklets for various city agencies.

When the Oregon State University Printing & Mailing Services in Corvallis, Ore., needed to complete an annual project for the state of Oregon that required the binding of 13,000 manuals, the in-plant's production manager, Judy Bankson, turned to a Sterling Digipunch from Spiel Associates.

The 10-person in-plant at humanitarian organization World Vision, in Federal Way, Wash, has installed a new Baum 20 Autoset folder to produce event kits. With the Baum folder and its Konica Minolta C6000 high-end copiers, World will now be able to produce these products totally in-house.

Vendors reported a good amount of interest in bindery equipment at this year's GRAPH EXPO in Chicago. The bindery equipment at the show offered in-plants some great opportunities to expand their services and increase their efficiency.

After putting up with aging equipment for years, Printing Services at California State University at San Bernadino recently replaced its Challenge cutter with a Perfecta 76 HTVC, installed a new James Burn Lhermite DocuPunch to replace an old GBC Streampunch and added a new Standard Horizon system, including an SPF-200A stitcher/folder, an FC 200 face trimmer and a 10-bin air-fed VAC-100A collator.

When Bucknell University’s Office of Publications, Print and Mail decided it was time to replace its 17-year-old Rosback perforator/creaser, the Lewisburg, Pa., in-plant didn’t just want another version of the same machine. It wanted new capabilities so it could offer new value to the university.

Though digital printing equipment made the biggest splash at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in March, the Washington, D.C. show was chock full of bindery equipment too. IPG visited all of the major bindery vendors. Here's a look at what we saw.

Bindery equipment is often very durable, leading some in-plants to keep it on the floor for a long time. That said, few shops have managed to keep a folder in operation as long as NW Natural’s Office Services department.