Cutting Remarks

Automating the cutters was part of Fort Dearborn's recent bindery "overhaul." Adler says the company completely redesigned its bindery to automate various tasks, redeploy employees and reduce its workforce by 30 percent. Adler says upgrading the cutters was a large part of that change.

As a final piece of advice for the printer or binder shopping for a cutter with optional equipment, Adler offers this simple piece of advice: "Go out and visit people who use the equipment. Talk to the operators and management about their overall success with it. Learn what the value is and try to run some cost benefits on it."