Postpress Efficiency — Bringing Up the Rear

While Bolte has few qualms with the progress in the bindery, he believes that some of it’s going to waste. Not product waste, but time.

“The disappointment is not because the technology—the engineering of the automated pockets, or the JDF-enabled specifications for pocket setup and trimmer alignment—doesn’t work. They’ve accomplished gargantuan savings in time,” Bolte says. “It is the frustration that while your makereadies are now down to minutes, you can’t take advantage of it because it takes so long to move the skids of signatures from the prior job out of the way and move skids in for the next job. All of this is taking longer than the automated makereadies on the traditional pieces of equipment. This is true, to an extent, with folders and guillotines. The ROI evaporates.”