Digital Finishing — Where to Draw the Line?

“We bought new zero-makeready equipment because our existing equipment, as a trade binder, was set up to do runs of 1,000 books or more with significant allowances for spoilage. It takes a whole different mindset to do digital work than it does longer runs,” the bindery exec asserts.

Book1One was set up as a specialized binding operation within the larger organization. Among the equipment brought in were a Standard Horizon BQ-270 perfect binder and Sticker casing-in equipment from On Demand Machinery. One surprise, Daubert says, was that the digital bindery was able to make use of old, manual equipment that was no longer competitive for other parts of the organization.