Bindery - Finishing

Kansa Technology has installed a Kansa 320 Inserter in Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department, providing students with the latest technology in newspaper inserters and related material-handling equipment.

The Kansa inserter supports the university’s Goss International Web Printing Laboratory, which houses a Goss Community four-high publication press. In addition to teaching web publication printing, the Graphic Communication Department runs an experiential student-run and managed printing and publishing operation, University Graphic Systems. This enterprise allows students to produce the Mustang Daily.

Mathias Bäuerle's fully automatic leaflet folder CAS 21/4 NET has received the German Printing Industry Innovation Award in the category of post-press paper handling.

The leaflet folder is a computer-controlled fold unit for folding package inserts for the pharmaceutical and food processing industry. The novel operational concept reduces walking distances around the machine as well as setup times.

Duplo Corp. has a new corporate identity. To be implemented globally starting January 1, the new identity combines traditional values and expertise in print finishing with a strong customer focus and leading edge innovation.

The company's new logo, specifically designed for the Duplo brand, is supported by the tag line ‘from print to documents,’ chosen to reflect the value that print finishing brings to the print production workflow. It also emphasizes the importance of innovative finishing solutions within traditional, digital and hybrid print environments.

For 33 years, Winona State University’s Print Shop had been using the same 30˝ power cutter. But when the shop upgraded its prepress and press operations last summer, Supervisor Greg Johnson decided that a new cutter was the next logical step. “With a constant turnover of student employees, we not only needed a dependable machine, but one that was safe and easy to operate,” says Johnson. So in January the Winona, Minn.-based shop installed a new Heidelberg POLAR 78X cutter. The staff was using it within days of delivery. “The old cutter...did not have all the safety features that the POLAR has,” Johnson says.

The STERLING® DIGIPUNCH® is a new, economical high speed punch designed for on demand and commercial printers. It will make it’s premiere at Graph Expo 08.

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—10/02/2008—Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) will, based on first calculations, achieve sales between 800 and 820 million Euro in the second quarter of the current financial year 2008/2009 (July 1 to September 30). Thus, sales volume is less than expected for the quarter following drupa trade fair and decreased by 10 percent compared with the same quarter in the previous financial year. Based on orders generated at drupa, Heidelberg had expected a stronger increase in sales in comparison to the first quarter of the current financial year, but recognises significant reluctance to invest in all regions because of the actual economic situation. Operating result

By now, JDF (Job Definition Format) has sunk its proverbial teeth into the prepress and press departments of the printing process, and no one can argue the benefits of adopting this technology in these areas of print production. However, for a true end-to-end JDF workflow, the technical innovation can’t stop at the press—it must continue into the bindery. So where are we in the pursuit of JDF-enabled bindery equipment? To find out, I asked several leading bindery equipment manufacturers/distributors, and got some interesting information from those who responded. When asked whether customers are requesting JDF-enabled bindery equipment, the overwhelming response was “yes, but

Kendell Martin, director of print and distribution services at RBC Ministries, does not take investment decisions lightly. When it came time to look at new stitching equipment, a few members of the RBC staff traveled to Kennesaw, Ga., to visit Heidelberg’s Print Media Demonstration Center (PMDC). Armed with some of their toughest print jobs, the team tested Heidelberg’s stitching equipment and quickly became enamored. “We decided to replace our existing stitcher with Heidelberg’s Stitchmaster ST 350 when we experienced, first-hand, the advanced technology,” Martin reports. “We also received great counsel from our Heidelberg contacts, who helped us find the best fit for our

THOUGH MOST of the press conferences and “big news” at Drupa centered on digital printing, innovations in bindery and finishing were no less prevalent. In fact, many of them sprang from the very digital printing trends that overshadowed them. As digital printing speeds have increased, bindery equipment has also gotten faster, with vastly improved automation and simplified touch-screen controls to make them even easier to set up. JDF compatibility is becoming more common in bindery equipment, allowing devices to be preset using production data. Demands for higher-quality printed products have led bindery vendors to improve their paper-handling techniques. Folds look better on the latest

OPTIMAL WORKFLOW efficiency. It’s the ultimate goal in today’s cost-conscious graphic arts marketplace. Indeed, the ability to enhance the productivity and speed of book manufacturing while minimizing labor can be the difference between whether an operation is profitable or not. This is especially true when it comes to digital book manufacturing. One of the more vital keys to success is embracing and maximizing the continually expanding capabilities of on demand digital technologies. But which digital workflow approach is right for you? Should you opt for an in-line configuration, or a near-line one, or off-line? No particular approach is right or wrong for every