Bindery Automation — Operator Friendly

Equally impressive advances have been made in cutting operations, the execs report.

"All of the equipment we are operating with today has some form of computerized or electronic controls," Rickard says. "Even our old cutters from the 1950s now have black boxes on them. These retrofitted computers control the backgauge. We just program in the cuts, and setup takes minutes instead of half an hour or up to a couple hours for some complicated jobs. Our cutting accuracy and consistency has improved, too."