New capabilities for adhesive binders: quick-changeover systems, machine-vision units that check signature integrity, and higher operating speeds characterize many of today's perfect binders. (Binding & Finishing: Production & Technology Report).(high-volume binding machines)

From: Graphic Arts Monthly | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

When corporations, retailers, and magazine publishers seek a fine, sturdy, and long-lasting binding for their products, the end result is perfect binding, the common term for adhesive square-back binding. But with the ongoing growth in versioning, trade binderies and printers also must seek perfect binding machines that are automated and computerized, to eliminate any chance of wrong signatures appearing in a versioned book.

"Printers are looking for higher integrity on machines to produce correct signatures," says Bob Flynn, director of business development for Standard ...

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