Binding - Perfect

Muller Martini’s Corona C18 perfect binder was selected by Hess Print Solutions to replace two legacy Muller machines.

Hank Fox, the CEO and owner of Fox Group is personally committed to the success of his company, for the long haul.

The winners of the 2015 Product Excellence Awards have been announced by BIA.

This is a story that's no doubt been repeated more than once. You're a company with a long and glorious tradition of manufacturing first-class finishing equipment. You've had a terrific run through the 70's, 80's, 90's and into the 21st century. But in the last four years, things have shifted.

The cost for producing a sewn book that's digitally printed, adds a considerable lift to the overall production price. Now there are certain markets, school yearbooks, some wedding albums, and higher-quality hardcovers which demand sewing. And in those one-off segments, price is not such an issue. But for other segments, it's a harder sell.

Many of us over 40 years of age marvel at the digital proficiency of the 20-somethings. We look at the millennials (and those younger) and their desire to be software engineers, programmers, entrepreneurs, video game developers. But, we wonder, who's going to run the saddle stitcher?

In a bid to keep cash flow robust, bindery systems vendors embarked on a campaign to offer extensive maintenance and upgrade services.

We haven't seen the introduction of new perfect binders from major finishing vendors in some time. But the recent Hunkeler Innovationdays event proved to be the perfect venue to introduce some new technology. Both Muller Martini and Meccanotecnica showcased new perfect binders with new technology in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The digital production environment places special needs on manufacturers of traditional offset finishing systems.

It wasn’t very long ago that pundits were declaiming the death of printed books, to be replaced by the glow of millions of e-readers.