Bindery - Finishing

Cutting printed jobs with a 20-year-old cutter was making life difficult for the in-plant employees at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va.

In November 2009, Bryan Wheeler, process engineer for FEO Outbound Publishing Services at Fidelity Investments, oversaw the implementation of a Baum AutoSet 2020 folder in his Covington, Ky.-based operation. This followed the addition of two Xerox iGen4 digital color presses.

The copy center replaced its old folder with a Morgana AutoCreaser 33 and Docu-Fold MK-2 in September 2008. Supervisor Irene Castilla-Alonzo recalls the justification process was easy once the in-plant showed how the new equipment could bring in new business.

When Poppy Forbes upgraded her in-plant to bring it into the world of digital printing, it didn't take her long to realize that the shop's bindery would also need some improvements. Forbes, print shop manager at the in-plant serving Boulder County, Colo., added a Canon imageRUNNER 7105 black-and-white copier and a Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press in 2008. A year later, the government in-plant installed a Duplo System 5000 collating system and a Duplo DC-615 slitter/cutter/creaser.

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in-plant's recent installation of a Heidelberg Stahlfolder Ti 36 eliminated costly outsourcing and streamlined the in-house production of tens of thousands of pocket guides.

THE BEGINNING of the college semester is always a bustling time for the employees at Azusa Pacific University Duplicating and Graphics. Located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, the in-plant serving this private Southern California Christian university is usually busy producing course packs and other materials prior to students arriving on campus.

Tina Gray saw the end of a lease agreement for an older Duplo saddle stitcher as an opportunity to bring more automated technology into her in-plant. Gray, print shop manager of the in-plant serving the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in Oklahoma City, decided last spring to install a four-tower Standard Horizon VAC collator system in-line with a Standard Horizon StitchLiner 5500 saddle stitching system with integrated three-knife trimming.

Heidelberg has restructured its business, resulting in head of sales Jurgen Rautert leaving the company after nearly two decades. Overall sales responsibility has been handed over to chief executive Bernhard Schreier.

Take a quick tour of the PRINT 09 show floor with IPG Editor Bob Neubauer.