Bindery - Finishing

Jetstream – In-Line Card Finishing System

Modern Postcard’s 75,000 sq. ft. facility produces high quality postcard products along with related items and full mailing services. They take pride in utilizing the latest innovations. Everything from start to finish is produced in-house.

After putting up with some very old and slow cutting machines for several decades, Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) Printing Services recently upgraded to a new Heidelberg POLAR 92 XT guillotine cutter with a jogging unit, scale and lifts.

The in-plant for Spring Industries, in Lancaster, S.C., recently installed a Heidelberg ECO 105 folder-gluer with automatic lock bottom capabilities and a four-channel, three-gun, cold glue system. The installation marks the 20-employee shop’s initial foray into folding carton packaging.

THOUGH SOME major digital printing equipment vendors may have sat out this year's AIIM/On Demand Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia, all of the key bindery vendors were there, showing off their latest innovations. IPG spent time at all of their booths.

Don Sibley, Sibley Peteet Design; Donald Prust, Neiman Marcus; and Adrian Hasenbauer, Slingshot LLC, comment on the value of attending the Print Council’s "Print Delivers" event. Presenters shared the latest findings about print media effectiveness.  Sponsored by the Print Council and hosted by Williamson Printing, the event featured speakers from the U.S. Postal Service, Kodak, Heidelberg and Sappi.

Kodak leaders provide an overview of the innovation and technology that will be on display at IPEX 2010. Kodak will feature new key market solutions based upon differentiating technology that will add value to customers- and helping them to grow their businesses. Quality, productivity, and delivering a consultancy are discussed, in addition to customer interviews.

THE AIIM/On Demand Conference and Exposition is returning to IPG’s home town of Philadelphia next month, taking place April 20-22. Some 10,000 people are expected to attend the three-day show, with hundreds of vendors planning to exhibit. To whet your appetite, IPG asked some key vendors what they plan to showcase at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

LIKE MANY in-plants, Iowa Bankers Association's two-employee print shop had been getting by for years with old, inefficient folding equipment. Its friction-fed Baum folder had been around since Gerald Ford was in the White House. It was slow, inconsistent and could not handle heavy stock very well.

At George Fox University, producing course packs has always required a lot of time spent manually punching and coil binding pages. A recent installation, however, is destined to change everything.