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

Changes in Customer Demand Drive Finishing

Short runs and fast turnarounds have become the hallmark of today’s printing envi-ronment. This means that time and labor-intensive processes like makeready are no longer profitable. To make jobs profitable, binderies must be able to set up the machines in a matter of hours, the longer and more labor-intensive the work to set up the machines, the lower the profit on shorter runs.