Bindery Automation — Operator Friendly

From his perspective as a trade binder, Rickard is skeptical about the potential application of CIP4/JDF in his industry segment. The shop does store job information on its server, but he doesn't believe it would be realistic to download that information to set up equipment.

"There are too many questions left to be resolved with every job," Rickard says. "In order to make the product look the way it should, we have to make panels bigger or smaller, and do a little cheating on where the customer intended for us to make the cuts and folds. It would be pretty much impossible for us to say the cut or fold is supposed to be 1˝ from the side guide and 3⁄4˝ from the gripper, so we'll just program that information."