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News Release from: Graphic Arts Equipment | Subject: Horizon BQ270jdf single clamp binder
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 June 2007
JDF-Ready Perfect Binder Allows Book
Print Growth
The ability to source short run perfect binding of adequate quality locally to solve breakdown problems led The Direct Printing Company to buy a Horizon BQ270jdf single clamp binder.
Graphic Arts Equipment (GAE) helped The Direct Printing Company to find the system to meets its needs and also supplied an HT30jdf robotic three-side trimmer to complete the deal to help Direct Printing as it carves a niche in specialist publishing services Now, Northampton (UK) The Direct Printing Company is also offering perfect binding as a trade service
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 7 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The compact build of the machine also attracted The Direct Printing Company, as well as the fact that the perfect binder is JDF-ready.
The firm's managing director, Phillip Bradbury, commented: "The machine is very well thought out and doesn't require much maintenance at all.
The instructions with it are clear so it is very difficult to make a mistake and the quality is great.
Other printers look at the bind and can see it is sharp and very strong." He added: "Our old equipment was rather mechanical and prone to break down.
With rapid growth in the output of short-run books from our five Oce digital presses we attempted to source an adequate service locally but there really is no-one in Northampton who can offer a first class, quality service at a reasonable price and with the right delivery for short runs up to 1,000.
Now we are marketing our services to the trade and already have some regular customers on board." Bradbury, who signed the deal for the equipment at Northprint last April, said the purchase was assured after his fellow directors, Sally Bradbury and Trudy Ashton, visited GAE's Perivale showrooms.
He explained: "The perfect binder is so easy to set up and run.
After 15 minutes Sally and Trudy - neither of whom has any production experience - were able to run books of differing thicknesses and sizes with perfect results.
They produced more than 500 in less than two hours." And he continued: "We are going through a great period of change and we have a new long-term strategy.
JDF will play a role in that.
We are only in the early stages but it is definitely something we are looking at seriously.".
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