Digital Finishing : Taking Their Output Off-line

One printer with a focused specialization is Arvato Digital Services, with a division that specializes in supply chain management for the healthcare industry, especially pre- and post-enrollment materials, which are saddlestitched or perfect bound and combined with various other printed collateral.

"Our page counts fluctuate dramatically from piece to piece," notes Todd Potrykus, director of print-on-demand for Arvato Digital Services. "We take care of a lot of the production management by systematically setting them up for gang runs based on similar page counts. We have to make sure, from our saddlestitching needs, to our perfect binding needs, that the equipment we have is able to change quickly or change on-the-fly to handle the variable page counts."