Saddle Stitchers — A Stitch In Time

Customer input helped the Stitchmaster ST 400 "bring saddle stitching to the next generation. Their comments led to the development of a CIP3 interface and movable pockets," Calov reports.

"The CIP3 interface offers greatly reduced makeready times since the computer automatically sets the pockets, infeed, trimmer and compensating stacker from information created in prepress," he says. "It also sets the backstop, sideguides and folio setting without tools. The benefits are tremendous, reducing makeready times, in some cases, from 45 minutes to just two minutes, while allowing a single operator to set up the stitcher from a central control panel."