Paper Cutters — Honing a Competitive Edge

Whether it's done digitally or not, there are significant gains to be had from linking postpress operations to upstream processes, asserts Rob Kuehl, marketing director for Polar cutting systems at Heidelberg USA, Kennesaw, GA. Since as much as 70 to 80 percent of the cost of a job already is in the sheet by the time it reaches the bindery, waste becomes very expensive at that point, Kuehl says. The bindery has to find a way to make the materials it's given work, which is typically done by throwing people at the job, he adds.