Increasing Work After Bookletmaker Installation

A Kasfold Sprint 3000 bookletmaker with a TR2 trimmer is enabling a printer in Ware, Hertfordshire (UK) to take on more booklet work.

A Kasfold Sprint 3000 bookletmaker with a TR2 trimmer is enabling a printer in Ware, Hertfordshire (UK) to take on more booklet work.

Printout Communications first saw the Kasfold bookletmaker and the Crease Matic 150 digital creaser being demonstrated on the Ashgate Automation stand at Digital Print World.

Martin Crowson, the managing director at Printout, said: "In price and performance terms, they were exactly what we wanted.

Most of our booklet work is short run, usually no longer than 500 copies.

As well as being compact, they can be wheeled away when not in use, which is useful as space is at a premium in our premises.

We don't do enough bookletmaking to warrant the investment in on-line finishing on our Oce, Canon and Minolta mono and colour copiers." The decision was made to upgrade the company's existing bookletmaker and to buy a Crease Matic 150 digital creaser after it had installed an HP Indigo press.

Crowson commented: "Once we started printed high quality four colour work on the HP Indigo, we needed a bookletmaker, which could also give us an equally high quality finish.

Added to this, our previous bookletmaker didn't have an on-line trimmer, which meant that we had to trim the booklets on a guillotine." And he continued: "This second process was taking extra time and we were under pressure to get the jobs out of the door.

The on-line trimmer has helped us to speed up our production.

Although we specifically bought it for finishing work from the HP Indigo, it is now used for all our booklet work, giving us a good return on our investment.".

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