Hamilton--Glimpses of the Future

Hopefully, we will see more activity in the bindery, as finishing equipment vendors take advantage of folding and cutting information to automatically set up their equipment. If printing is going to remain competitive in this cyber century, the entire process must be streamlined through automation.

Frankly, while prepress and pressroom technologies have commanded more than their fair share of attention, the bindery is really the area where there is the most room for digital technologies to make significant improvements in most printing plants' capacity.