Bradford & Bigelow — Company on a Mission

The Digital Book Factory ate up a fair chunk of Bradford & Bigelow’s $15 million transformation and expansion budget. Covers and color short-run books are produced off-line on a Xerox iGen3 digital production press. For short-run in-line book production, a Nipson VaryPress 400 digital web press was selected because it prints very well on lightweight groundwood papers, which are increasingly popular with publishers. A Standard Hunkeler Gen 6 cuts and stacks the book blocks into a Shuttleworth conveyor, which then feeds the Muller Martini Sigmabinder for perfect binding or the IBIS Smart-binder saddlestitcher.