Increases For In-House Work With Digital Creaser

A KAS Crease Matic 150P digital creaser from Ashgate Automation is helping the digital print room at the King's Fund, to produce a wider range of work in-house.

A KAS Crease Matic 150P digital creaser from Ashgate Automation is helping the digital print room at the King's Fund, to produce a wider range of work in-house.

It is doing so by using the Crease Matic 150P in combination with a new Optima Fastbind perfect binding machine, also from Ashgate, as well as a booklemaker.

The King's Fund, which is a health 'think tank', commissions a range of printed material, including conference booklets, brochures and handouts.

Dave Gifford, print room manager at the King's Fund, said: "I saw the Crease Matic being demonstrated at an exhibition and realised that, although it is hand-fed, it was much faster and more accurate than our previous machine, which did not have automatic set up.

We print anything from one to a thousand copies, although 150 to 250 is the norm.

All our work is digitally printed, so it needs to be pre-creased before it is folded or bound, which was quite time-consuming." He added: "The Crease Matic is ideal for our volume of work and is certainly helping us to produce higher quality leaflets.

It works very well with the Optima perfect binder because we can pre-crease the spines." Gifford specified the Crease Matic with a new perfing option.

And he added: "It gives a more professional result, especially on invitations, which are now perfed, so that the respondent can tear off and return the acceptance instead of using scissors.".

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