Paper Cutters — Cutting No Corners

Also, the industry trend towards on-demand jobs and declining run lengths is effecting the paper cutting market.

"Shorter runs have less tolerance for waste, and this is particularly important when a job reaches the cutter because it has already been through many other production areas," Dubuque asserts. "With this in mind, any mistake in the cutting (stage) can be very costly, which leads to the absolute importance of highly accurate, precision-engineered cutting. Also, as run lengths decline, setup time becomes a larger percentage of total job time, which drives up the labor cost on the job."