Finishing — Caught in a Bind?

Vinnie Kapoor, president of INNOTECH, agrees that a current trend is toward finishing in-line with a web press, which avoids subsequent steps in the bindery. He does see a push toward increasing the number of gatefolds on the products.

To produce different configurations of products, Kapoor explains, prefolders are being added to the press folders. "We offer the fastest prefolder with almost no makeready time; [operators] can go from one job to the other without spending too much time trying to change it over," Kapoor says.