The Digital Bindery

Finishing: Speed vs. Flexibility
In a traditional printing business, where order quantities range into the thousands, the temptation is to buy speed in the bindery equipment. However, in digital printing operations, one of the most common mistakes that we see is investment in high-cost finishing equipment designed for speed rather than flexibility. As a result, the printer's fixed manufacturing costs are weighted down by underutilized bindery capacity. Moreover, with this "oversized" equipment, the printer is more inclined to avoid the sort of short-run, on-demand business that his customers actually want to give to him.