Ipex Order For High Speed Digital Creaser

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Apr 12, 2006

John Clifton and Sons, a Walthamstow (UK) print finisher and bookbinder, has ordered a fully-automated high speed Pit Stop digital creaser and Perforatoron from Encore Machinery at Ipex 2006.

Tim Clifton, managing director of John Clifton and Sons, a Walthamstow (UK) print finisher and bookbinder, has ordered a fully-automated high speed Pit Stop digital creaser and Perforatoron from Encore Machinery at Ipex 2006.

Last August Clifton bought the assets and goodwill of Books A Bound, a perfect binding company.

In addition to the fully automated 15-clamp binder, Clifton's also took stock of a single clamp binder for the short run digital market.

"This increased the amount of digitally printed jobs that we were getting from the trade, which needed to be scored.

The problem was that we didn't have the right equipment to do it quickly and efficiently.

It could take us two hours to score 1,000 covers on a treadle creaser," Tim Clifton explained.

Clifton said he contacted Encore Machinery, UK distributors for Pit Stop and added: "I know Encore well because I bought a computerised Shoei folder from the company two years ago and I've been pleased with Encore's after-sales service.

They put a Pit Stop in on trial and it made such a difference to our productivity.

We can now crease 2,000 covers in only 25 minutes including make-ready.

It is the fastest and most accurate machine of its type on the market and is perfect for our needs as it enables us to do all four creases on a cover in one pass." He said that as well as being quick and simple to set up, the machine is very flexible because Clifton's can set it up to score and perforate digital and litho jobs.

And Clifton concluded: "Having had a machine on trial, there was no doubt that we had to order one.".