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News Release from: Watkiss Automation Sales Limited | Subject: Document Finishing System barcode reader
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2007
Booklet Making With Barcode Reader As
Standard
Security for digital booklet making is claimed to have been improved with the addition of a barcode reader, fitted as standard at no extra cost by Watkiss Automation to its Document Finishing System.
Watkiss Automation said it believes that the need for a bar-code reader has become normal and with the expansion of digital and personalised variable data printing and printing, the company's barcode reader is now an integral part of the Document Finishing System (DFS) in the UK rather than being an added option The company said that where verifiable integrity is needed, the barcode reader provides multi-level security verification at sheet, set and job level
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 25 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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It can also control the insertion of covers and multiple additional sheets for customised sets.
Users can configure the system to interpret the barcode characters as required and save the configurations in job-memories for later recall.
Watkiss claimed that those features mean that every sheet can be guaranteed to be accurate and every set, or job, can be customised.
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Variable data can be extended beyond the printer to the finisher, with the potential for each set or document to include a different combination of additional inserted sheets.
The barcode position is said to be flexible, with a minimum character height of 3.5mm and a 2mm minimum distance from the feed edge.
The barcode can fit in to the trim margin, or it can be positioned unobtrusively in the gutter (spine) when booklet making, claimed Watkiss.
The DFS is said to be suitable for digital printing where, operating on-line or near-line, it takes pre-collated sheets directly from the printer and automatically processes them in to booklets.
If required, it also inserts additional sheets, such as pre-printed covers.
The central colour touch screen interface controls the entire sheet feeding and booklet making system to ensure set-up and recall of jobs, added the company.
The system incorporates two distinct ranges of booklet making equipment according to overall workload, run length and required production rate, either of which can be then be fed to an optional Automatic Spinemaster to produce Squareback books, which Watkiss said is one of its innovations.
Paul Attew, Watkiss Automation's sales director, commented: "We've offered the barcode reader as an optional module for some time but we recognise that absolute verification at sheet, set and document level is important, especially as more of our customers are producing customised or variable data print. Request a free brochure from Watkiss Automation Sales Limited ...
By printing a barcode on each sheet, our system can guarantee that every set is correct.".
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