Binding - Saddle-Stitch

Muller Martini will demo how digitally- and offset-printed signatures can be processed concurrently using a smart, automated workflow.

At drupa, IBIS Bindery Systems received Smart-binder orders at the show from customers in Australia, Spain and the United States.

Using macro X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Dutch researchers are able to scan the bindings of ancient books to see what’s inside.

It's no secret that we're dealing with a greatly compressed printing industry as opposed to the "roaring '90s." For trade binderies, the news has been even worse. In the last few years, some of the largest trade shops in the Chicago-land, the East Coast, and more have closed their doors. But, amidst the bad news, there are trade binderies that are not only surviving, but doing well, thank you. What are their secrets?

A new version of Hohner’s HSB 8.000 saddle stitcher will be unveiled at drupa 2016.

This may come as a shock to the people I meet at parties and relatives I rarely see, but as a professional bookbinder, I don't devote a lot of thought to e-readers. Frankly, I wish everyone would stop asking me about them. No, I don’t own one. No, nobody has ever wanted me to make one for them.

In five years, CEO Jean Paul Nataf has turned Boss Litho into a $20M commercial, packaging and dye sublimation printing success story.

The IBIS Smart-Binder was designed from the get-go as a true saddle stitcher for the digital print environment.

Headquartered in Hagerstown, Maryland, Phoenix Color recently added a Ventura MC200 Connect System from Muller Martini.

Since installing a Muller Martini Primera saddle stitcher last July, Panaprint has produced 126,000 books in 9.25 hours—a plant record.