Lightning Source — Electrified Book Production

The VarioStream 9210 is a simplex or single pass duplex, 852 ipm or 196 fpm, device that offers 600x600 dpi graphic arts quality. Its web format width is 6.5x19˝, which means they can print 6x9˝ books three-up—a must for a digital book manufacturer.

Lightning Source’s proprietary software allows the operation to generate IPDS, PDF, AFP and TIFF data streams as standard output, so the manufacturer is not only running different books side-by-side, but also different PDLs. Content can also be mixed at any time, thus there’s no need to segregate workflow for text- and graphics-intensive books.