drupa 04 Report Binding & Finishing — Building Better Binderi

Drupa 2004 abounded with vendors seeking to satisfy these low-volume quality binding needs. Companies as large as GBC and as small as UPC Print, of Vaasa, Finland, showed a wide variety of approaches to short-run binding, including easy-to-do hard cover finishing for digital printing output.

Trend VI: Opportunities in Finishing Exist Beyond Traditional Printing. Numerous exhibitors demonstrated finishing techniques that went well beyond traditional binding. Hunkeler and Billhöfer, for example, showed high-speed application of RFID antennas and chips to printed material.