Bindery - Finishing

TOTOWA, NJ—June 4, 2007—The ownership of Spiral Binding Co., Inc. (“Spiral”), a leader in document finishing equipment and supplies, is proud to announce effective today it has acquired the James Burn North America (“JB”) division of James Burn International, now referred to as James Burn USA, LLC. Since 1907, JB has been a leader in wire products in North America and conceptualized the “Wire-O™ double loop binding wire.” Today James Burn USA, LLC manufactures wire and coil bindings in Poughkeepsie, NY and Atlanta, GA and with Spiral’s broad line of equipment and supplies, James Burn customers will have access to a wider range of

IT WAS two days before graduation at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Printing Services was in the process of collating 8,700 commencement programs when its 12-year-old Duplo 8000 decided to go on spring break. “We had to hand collate about half” of the programs, recalls Manager Don Harty. The shop got everything finished in time, but the situation gave school administrators a scare. “It served to back up my point to my boss that we needed to replace this thing,” says Harty. Last fall the 13-employee in-plant did exactly that. It installed a 20-bin, two-tower Duplo 5000 collator with an inline stitcher/folder/trimmer. Here’s

When Central Michigan University Printing Services replaced its old six-pocket friction-feed stitcher with a 10-pocket vacuum-feed Muller Martini Minuteman, Director Rhonda Kohler says it was like upgrading from an economy car to a luxury sedan. “It’s so nice,” enthuses Kohler. “It cuts the time in half.” The old stitcher could not keep up with the increasing demand for booklets at the Mt. Pleasant, Mich.-based in-plant, she says. Plus, the device could not handle undersized signature stitch-ins. Everything is different now. “You can adjust the vacuum in the different pockets so that it can pick up those undersized signatures, and it just flies,” she

PERFECT BINDING isn’t a service you see in many in-plants. In fact, IPG data shows that just 31 percent have perfect binders, and much of that is desktop equipment. Still, those that offer this service say it’s a big customer pleaser. “People are pretty tired of saddle stitching sometimes,” remarks Mark Dixon, assistant director of Printing and Mailing Services at the University of Oregon. The 39-employee in-plant has had a

ALL IT TOOK was one awful binding job by an outside printer to make Auburn University start looking at perfect binding equipment. “We sent 200 books to a local printer and they messed them all up,” recalls CopyCat Manager Glenda Miley, still clearly peeved at that printer for charging her anyway. Her in-plant had to reprint all 200 books and send them elsewhere for binding—a big money loser overall. Miley realized her Auburn, Ala.-based in-plant could have saved the university lots of money if it had its own perfect binder. So one year ago, the shop installed a Duplo DB250. “We’ve never looked back,” she proclaims.

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HAUPPAUGE, NY—01/25/07—On March 7th, 2007, Muller Martini and Nipson America will present an open house featuring demonstrations of a complete OnDemand digital book printing and perfect binding line. The open house will take place at Muller Martini headquarters on Long Island. More than 1,200 attendees throughout the industry have been invited to the event. During the open house, a full inline digital book printing and binding workflow will be demonstrated, comprised of two Nipson VaryPress 400 digital printers with unwinder, sheeter and stacker, a Shuttleworth Star RollerTM conveyor, and a Muller Martini SigmaBinder perfect binder, SigmaTower cooling tower and Esprit three-knife trimmer. “We see

THE GRAPHIC arts market saw the need for industry standards and understood the growing XML (Extensible Markup Language) development when it supported the decision to create CIP4 (www.cip4.org). This association includes major equipment and software vendors in prepress, digital printing, offset and finishing. CIP4 created the Job Definition Format (JDF) as a standard way to exchange and understand job information. This process can begin to empower creative and production staffs to support an efficient manufacturing process. Tremendous efficiency can result from understanding the interdependence of each department. We largely still depend on paper-based processes that are isolated and disconnected with our current way

More coverage of Graph Expo product introductions . IT MAY be telling that the majority of presses in operation around the show floor of Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2006 last month were of the digital variety. Offset units were conspicuous in their absence. Digital presses have become part of the commercial printing mainstream, rather than being a specialty product segment or market niche. To emphasize this, Hewlett-Packard shared results from an InfoTrends study that surveyed a sampling of digital color printing buyers and producers. The research firm found that the percentage of color printing jobs with a run length

Andover, MA—October 30, 2006—Standard Finishing Systems, a leading supplier of automated post-press and paper handling solutions based in Andover, MA, has promoted George Vergilis to Director of Sales. Vergilis will retain overall sales responsibility, and a new National Sales Manager will be added to the team to coordinate field sales programs and activities. “George has done an outstanding job motivating our field sales team, managing our dealer channel, and achieving record sales over the past decade,” said Standard Managing Director David Reny. “We expect his continued leadership and customer focus will guide Standard to the next level of sales success.” Vergilis brings