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News Release from: KAS Paper Systems | Subject: Mailmaster 465
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 November 2004
DM House Automates Inserting For 24-Hour
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Formara, the Southend printers has installed a Mailmaster 465 mailing and inserting machine from KAS Paper Systems.
Formara, the Southend printers has installed a Mailmaster 465 mailing and inserting machine from KAS Paper Systems "Five years ago we diversified into mono and colour digital work, having previously been only a litho operation
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Not long afterwards customers began asking us whether we could handle the fulfilment for them.
Realising that we could add value to our service and make it easier for our clients if we took over the whole process, we have actively sought to offer this service.
Until we purchased the Mailmaster we were inserting envelopes by hand and as this side of the business has grown, we were employing a lot of home workers as well," explained Freddie Kienzler, managing director at Formara.
The company had been considering automating the process for some time when it was awarded a large contract, which involved the printing and fulfilment of personalised documentation.
It comprised mailings with run lengths up to 20,000 with a 24-hour guaranteed delivery.
"It was the catalyst that made us look seriously at the mailing and inserting machines on the market because it would have been impossible to turn round these big mailings manually within the time scale.
Even the shorter runs would have caused us problems if we were already busy with other work.
The Mailmaster was the only machine that met our requirements.
It's well priced, it's well built, quick, reliable and simple to operate.
At one end of the spectrum, we saw large machines, which we considered too expensive for what they could do.
At the other end, we didn't think that they were robust enough to undertake work 24/7 when required," Kienzler stressed.
Formara specified a machine with three insert stations and a sheet feeder folder.
"Basically we bought it to handle two main jobs.
The first is an A4 letter folded to A5 and inserted into a C5 envelope and the second has a C4 outer envelope, a 28-page booklet, a letter and a reply paid envelope.
If we do want a fourth insert, we are able to hand feed it into the machine.
It was a very smooth installation.
KAS trained two operators and we have had no need to call them in since.
It's now handling about 95 per cent of our fulfilment work.
It will pay for itself very quickly, because, apart from meeting customers' deadlines, it has also meant that we have not needed to replace a bench hand," he added.
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