Finishing - Conventional

HIGH POINT, NC—12/21/06—Everette Edwards has joined Vecoplan, LLC as the Mid-West Sales Manager in their Waste Division. Edwards will be responsible for sales to the municipal, industrial and post-consumer waste markets including the printing and document destruction industries. Vecoplan is the world wide leader in size reduction technologies, including shredders, material handling machinery, separation equipment, and complete waste reduction systems. Edwards brings over 25 years of industrial sales experience to his position. “The rapid growth that we’ve experienced, especially in our Waste Division, has made it necessary for us to expand both our facilities and our personnel. We are fortunate to have someone of Everette’s

CHICAGO—December 11, 2006—One of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States has ordered six Goss Magnapak packaging systems to achieve advanced microzoning and selective inserting capabilities. Chicago Tribune Company will install five high-capacity shaftless Magnapak systems along with Goss Omnizone supervisory controls for daily preprint production of the Chicago Tribune at its Freedom Center in Chicago. The technology will allow targeted zoning of the paper’s inserts down to sub-zip code levels. An additional Magnapak inserter at the Tribune Direct facility will provide selective packaging of the company’s total market coverage (TMC) product for non subscribers. Installation of the new Goss systems with a total of

PATERSON, NJ—November 30, 2006—Colter & Peterson, the largest independent distributor of paper cutters and paper handling equipment in North America, announces that Lightning Source, a digital on-demand book production provider based in La Vergne, TN, has placed an order with them for five Horauf three-knife trimmers. The five trimmers will be installed during the first half of 2007; two of the trimmers will be installed at the main Lightning Source facility in Tennessee, with the other three installed at other Lightning Source locations in the U.S. and England. This order comes on the heels of four Horauf three-knife trimmers Lightning Source has purchased from

Bobst Providing Bindery Direction ROSELAND, NJ—Intrigued by barbecues under the stars, a car show and rally—and yes, let’s not forget binding and finishing gear—roughly 450 people from 171 different plants made their way here for the Direction ’06 Open House sponsored by Bobst Group USA. The show, held September 21-26 at Bobst’s Demonstration and Training Center, showcased the company’s folding carton and commercial printing solutions for customers and prospects alike. A total of nine Bobst technologies were on display. On the commercial printing end, diecutters such as the SPanthera 106-LER, SPeria 106-E and the SPrintera 145-PER drew attention from visitors, along with the SPeria Foilmaster 102. Jerry

Gämmerler launched the BL 408 bindery stacker for use behind saddlestitchers, perfect binders, folders and inserters. Features wide format range, two-stage stacking system and a low copy drop height. The infeed is equipped with four top belts and eight bottom belts. Visit www.piworld.com/infocenter and enter number 679 Goss International unveiled its Pacesetter 2200 and 2500 saddlestitchers. The systems feature servo-driven hoppers and excel at quick makereadies. The Pacesetter 2200 system completes up to 22,000 books per hour. The Pacesetter 2500 model features a dual stitcher and a 25,000 books per hour capacity. Visit www.piworld.com/infocenter and enter number 680

ST. CROIX FALLS, WI—10/31/06—Post shows, it is common for exhibitors to proclaim how successful their efforts were. How then, does one truly convey how excellent Graph Expo ‘06 was? Brandtjen & Kluge sold a record number of machines and systems during the four-day show. The leads generated per day exceeded any other recent show. “I can honestly say we had focussed customers from the shows opening to its close,” said Hank Brandtjen, President of Kluge. “It was one of those shows you did not want to see end.” The overall success of Graph Expo was felt by all. “I have the privilege of knowing many of

ROSELAND, NJ—Over 450 visitors including representatives from over 171 folding carton makers participated in the recent Bobst Direction ’06. The folding carton open house was held September 21st through 26th at Bobst’s Roseland, New Jersey Training and Demo Center. In addition to seeing the latest in folding carton equipment and technology, visitors entered for the chance to win prizes from the Suppliers Punch Game Drawing and the Daily Raffle Drawing. Three lucky visitors took home American Express Gift Checks from the Suppliers Punch Game Drawing. They were; Robert Pascarella, HSM Packaging, Syracuse, NY (1st Place); Eileen Vincent, RLR Foil Stamping, Passaic, NJ (2nd Place); Pat

The clamping pressure of a paper cutter increases as successive cuts make the surface area of the paper smaller. If the clamping pressure is excessive, the knife deflects to the front and may even become damaged. Insufficient clamping pressure, on the other hand, causes the knife to pull the material from beneath the clamp. To determine the correct setting, test cuts can be made outside live matter in the area opposite the front marks on the sheet, or in the control strip. If the clamping pressure seems too high, the operator can reduce it from one test cut to the next until the pressure is

The standard POLAR feature called "Distortion Correction," available on all POLAR cutters 30-inch and larger, lets the operator "personalize" the machine for fast, easy, and accurate cutting of any paper stock and job. The distortion correction is related to the specific stack of material loaded in the machine at any given moment. During cutting, the backgauge positioning can be matched individually with every stack. For example, after the first cut at 100 cm, the distortion correction plus one tenth of a millimeter is used. The following sizes are positioned in a modified way: 90.010 cm, 80.010 cm, 70.010 cm, and 60.010 cm. After that,

A simple rule of thumb in determining the correct cutter size for your needs: take your largest sheet size and measure the diagonal from one corner to the opposite corner, then add two inches. Or, just use the Pythagoras formula [C2=A2+B2] and solve for C=SQR(A2+B2). For example, if your largest sheet size is 40” x…