PIP upgrades to Kasfold Sprint 3000 booklet maker

PIP Printing, a business-to-business printing company in London, has upgraded its Kasfold booklet maker to the latest Kasfold Sprint 3000 with a fore-edge trimmer from Ashgate Automation.

It has also purchased a KAS Creasematic 150 semi-automated creaser.

The Kasfold Sprint 3000 model is said to have been designed to meet the requirements of the digital print market, while remaining litho friendly, according to Ashgate Automation.

The machine is claimed to produce A4, A5 and A6 finished booklets at up to 1,500 units per hour without marking the covers.

Each collated set is fed into the booklet maker by hand and the machine jogs the set from both sides before applying a centre staple and carrying out folding and front-edge trimming.

Colin Rosen, PIP Printing's managing director, said: 'We have won a new project, which requires us to print and finish multiple booklets, all of which are different and range in run lengths from 25 to 50 copies on stock up to 300gsm.

'We have two Xerox digital printers, which produce booklets online, but they are unable to trim.

'Our old Kasfold booklet maker can handle this type of work but it didn't have an online trimmer and was nearing the end of its working life.

'That meant that the booklets had to be guillotined as a separate process, which on very short runs is time consuming.

'The new KAS Sprint 3000 is ideal for short-run, quick-turnaround jobs because it is fast and simple to set up,' he added.

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