How Does Your Bindery Grow?

"You can't have the latest equipment in prepress and the pressroom without keeping up with technology in the bindery," he explains. "With automation, you produce more work using fewer people. Plus, you get more production out of a machine because it's automated."

Mounce has equipped his fully automated bindery with three Stahl folders (one with a PAF bundler), a Rollem perfing and scoring machine, a Muller Martini saddle stitcher, a Vacuumatic counter and a Clamco shrinkwrapper. He says cultivating a modern, automated bindery is important for many reasons. First, there's the all-important aspect of ensuring quality—and quality control (QC)—throughout the entire process, especially in the bindery where quality and QC can be compromised if a job is outsourced.