Finishing — Caught in a Bind?

Flexibility is especially important, she adds. The equipment needs to be able to produce a wide variety of applications produced on a range of paper stocks—including NCR, coated, 10 point, etc.—so that fewer jobs need to be done by hand, outsourced or even turned down. Gattis notes that bindery equipment is also being required to work both off-line and in-line with printers and high-speed copiers.