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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: Pit Stop
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 April 2006
Ipex Order For Creaser Leads To
Productivity Boost
Tim Clifton, managing director of John Clifton and Sons placed an order with Encore Machinery at Ipex for a fully automated, high-speed Pit Stop digital creaser and perforator.
Tim Clifton, managing director of John Clifton and Sons, a Walthamstow (UK) print finisher and bookbinder, placed an order with Encore Machinery at Ipex for a fully automated, high-speed Pit Stop digital creaser and perforator Last August the company bought the assets and goodwill of Books A Bound, a perfect binding company and in addition to acquiring that company's fully automated 15-clamp binder, Clifton's also took stock of a single clamp binder for the short run digital market
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"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 contacted Encore Machinery, UK distributors for Pit Stop.
He added: "I know Encore well because I bought a computerised Shoei folder from the company two years ago and I've been pleased with the after-sales service.
Encore 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 explained that as well as being quick and simple to set up, the Pit Stop machine is very flexible because it can be set up to score and perforate digital and litho jobs.
Clifton said: "Having had a machine on trial, there was no doubt that we had to order one.".
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