Digital Finishing — Where to Draw the Line?

“With that equipment, each book is handled individually so there is no makeready. No automation means you don’t have to set up a bunch of different sections where you can lose product in makeready,” he explains.

The digital bindery has local printers (within 100 miles) with digital presses sending it already printed, collated sets to be converted into books. It also does book work for more remote printers, but in that case the printer typically sends a file that Book1One has output locally—even in cases where the customer has installed its own digital press.