Binder Helps Firm's 24-Hour Digital Print Service

When it came to implementing its ambitious trading plans Islington (UK) 24-hour digital print start-up, Mask Documents, chose a Horizon BQ-270 Touchperfect binder.

When it came to implementing its ambitious trading plans Islington (UK) 24-hour digital print start-up, Mask Documents, chose a Horizon BQ-270 Touchperfect binder.

It also bought a Perfecta 76UC precision guillotine from finishing equipment supplier, GAE.

Mask Documents managing director Julian Mason explained: "We've deliberately installed for overcapacity so that we have room to grow quickly.

Although we are starting in a very specialist area, we hope to expand in to other types of digital print for the marketing and publishing sectors, where we see demand coming from variable data printing in particular." And GAE was put through its paces explained Mason: "Having applied a rigorous procedure to select our pre-press and printing systems we were determined to use similar methods when it came to finishing.

We challenged the suppliers to demonstrate their machines from a brief we provided.

GAE gave the best demonstrations, and convinced us that its products are a long way ahead of their rivals.

We are very impressed with GAE as a company." Mask Documents began trading in September with Steve Cockerill as production director.

The short term business plan is to concentrate on servicing City clients requiring quick turn-around corporate documents on an overnight basis.

Mason added: "We believe there has been a niche within the marketplace created by a fall in the number of corporate inplants and the rise in outsourcing of this type of specialist printing.

Our focus is on reliability and quality, which are paramount within this sector and we expect the same reliability and quality from the equipment we buy." Mason said he is particularly keen to praise the Horizon BQ-270.

He commented: "This is the best perfect binder available for the digital marketplace because its high level of automation makes job changing so fast.

More than that, this is a very robust machine, which will take a lot of use over a long period and of all the machines we looked at this one produced the highest quality results." He continued: "We particularly liked the way the glue is applied to three edges of the book spine and that we have the capacity to produce spines up to 50mm thick.

We anticipate that 80 per cent of our workload will be perfect bound on the BQ-270." Mason commented that the other essential item in any finishing department is the guillotine and explained: "We think the Perfecta is one of the best guillotines in the industry.

It offers everything you could want in a modern guillotine, it is accurate, safe, easy to use and highly programmable.

Most of the time we run using preset formats, which are available at the push of a button.".

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