Digital Finishing -- Making a Stitch in Time

Offset and digital sheets flow into a common bindery area, which makes it a completely off-line operation. Caldwell says the company selects equipment with an eye toward supporting the needs of both sides and “getting the most bang for the buck, rather than just helping with one area.”

Its latest acquisition, a TR Die-Score system from Rollem International, may end up having a bigger payoff for digital work. Cracking and static are still the biggest challenges his department faces with finishing digital sheets. Small scoring and perfing jobs that had been tying up its MBO folders can now be offloaded to the dedicated scoring unit, he reports, and Capitol City can keep more work in-house.