Digital Finishing : Taking Their Output Off-line

Publishers' Graphics uses a 
number of digital printing platforms, including Konica Minolta, Xerox, Canon and Océ. Lewis notes that when the company 
debuted, the biggest obstacle 
was finding sufficiently vigorous finishing equipment.

"When we first started, the smallest equipment wasn't built as strong as the large Kolbus and Muller Martini lines," he notes. "We opted to go with this short-run philosophy in 1996. In doing so, we had to redo a lot of things with the machine to make sure the glues, the milling units, and the bonds were as strong as the publishers had been accustomed to."