The Bindery—No Longer the Bottleneck of the Printers’ Workflow

The Bottleneck Is a Myth – for Those with Resources

Conventional wisdom holds that the bindery bottlenecks production; that the speed of production in the prepress and press departments overwhelm the mechanically-inclined bindery and jobs cannot turn around as quickly. In-depth interview respondents, typically companies at the high-end of the market, universally rejected the notion, pointing out that modern machinery does a fine job of keeping pace with the output elsewhere in the shop and they can regularly meet production needs.