drupa 04 Report Binding & Finishing — Building Better Binderi

Trend VII: The Integration of Binding and Finishing. The binding and finishing trends cited earlier focus on the operational issues beyond the press. But perhaps the most important trend to come out of Drupa 2004 indicates that, in the future, print finishing will be viewed simply as part of a larger whole. Today, postpress operations are still essentially separate from prepress and pressroom functions.