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News Release from: Ibis Integrated Bindery Systems | Subject: Smart-Binder binding systems range
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2008
Binding Systems Work With High Speed
Digital Print
Companies that need to produce stitched and perfect bound books in-line with high performance digital printers can do with the Smart-Binder from Ibis Integrated Bindery Systems, it is claimed.
For example, stitched and bound books for lower production volumes have been proven at a printing factory in Europe where Ibis's Smart-Binder SB-4 system produces saddle-stitched and perfect bound books for the educational market, said the company The perfect-bound books are made in a way that Ibis claimed to have pioneered
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 14 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Smart-Binder first processes digitally-printed sheets in to ISG cold-glued, folded signatures, with approximately 16 pages in each signature.
They are collected together automatically by Ibis's SCF module under bar-code control and pushed directly in to the clamp of a CP Bourg BB3002 for hot-melt and cover to be added, without spine milling.
The BB3002 is claimed to provide bound books at up to 400 units per hour in an completely in-line operation.
Book thicknesses can vary on-the-run , no intermediate manual handling is needed and the bind quality is similar to thread-sewn books.
Alternatively, stitched and bound books for high production volumes are also possible.
The first such system was installed by Ibis on the east coast of the USA, which combines a Muller Martini perfect binding system with an IBIS Smart-Binder, connected to a 400 feet per minute digital printer.
The majority of the output from the line comprises educational booklets for schools.
After the web-cutter the sheet stream can be diverted in two different directions.
In one direction the sheets are stacked and conveyed to a complete Muller Martini Sigma binding line, which processes up to 1,000 perfect bound books per hour, said Ibis.
In the other direction sheets flow directly in to an Ibis Smart-Binder SB-3, which is claimed to produce up to 6,000 stitched books, or saddle-glued books per hour.
Ibis said that the complete system produces soft-cover perfect bound or saddle-stitched educational booklets, ready for shipping, with the minimum of material handling.
The line can switch between either stitched or perfect-bound books, which the company believes will become increasingly common within the book industry.
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