LAMINATING EQUIPMENT -- Sealing the Deal

For the future, vendors agree that new technology should equate into even faster, more user-friendly equipment. Also quicker, on-demand machines will become commonplace. The ability to use one adhesive for more jobs will be important for the printers and finishers of the future, as well.

Sassi, of American Binding Co., feels that hot-melt technology will also be an even bigger need. "The system (of the future) will use films of 12 micron where the adhesive will be spread with extreme accuracy to obtain quality products with higher speed, lower costs and no pollution," he predicts.