Duplo also added a knife folding option to its DC-645 slitter, cutter, creaser. The knife folder incorporates two knife folds, making it ideal for parallel fold applications. It can handle up to 50 sheets per minute.
Intelligent Automation
Using the theme “Think Intelligent Automation,” Horizon International (Standard Finishing) showed a number of automated postpress solutions. These included the small-format AF-406A, a six-buckle, suction-fed folder with pile feed. With a maximum sheet size of 15.7x25.6˝ and a minimum size of 3.9x1.9˝, it has an optional six-buckle second unit that can be added straight or at a right-angle.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.