BINDING & FINISHING
Topics include business issues, processes and technology in the postpress arena.
Areas of focus range from folding, cutting, saddle stitching and perfect binding to
coating, gluing, diecutting, embossing, ink-jet addressing and more.
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The Amazing Moving Steps Direct Mailer: 60-second Fold of the Week (Video)
Featured fold: Moving Steps Mailer. I love this patent-pending glued booklet solution that uses a super-smart technique to create movement...
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Graph Expo Review: Postpress - Leveraging the New Normal
Instead of seeing a gaggle of tire kickers, the printers and trade finishers who perused McCormick Place South during Graph... -
What’s New in the Bindery?
Though digital printing equipment made the biggest splash at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in March, the Washington, D.C.... -
Swiftly Downstream - Conveying Solution Streamlines Throughput
Harlequin, the world’s largest publisher of romance novels, recently eliminated finishing bottlenecks with integrated, inline digital print and binding equipment.... -
Digital Finishing : Crossing the Finish Line
One's ability to skillfully maneuver digitally printed product through the binding and finishing process just may enable you to avoid... -
Thomson-Shore Book Manufacturer Finds Perfect Fit in Purchase of Ann Arbor’s Bessenberg Bindery
The move establishes Michigan's only custom commercial case bindery business as a division of Thomson-Shore, which employs more than 200...
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Debunking the Gate Fold Myth
There’s a nasty old rumor running around that gate folds are the most difficult and expensive folds to produce, generating...
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Graph Expo 2010: Binding & Finishing - Pushing Postpress Progress
October 2010
Want an honest, open, unbiased and unfettered report on the quantity and quality of visitors who haunted the binding and finishing booths during Graph Expo...
Inserting Can Help You Add Value
July 2010
Roundup of just a few of the inserting machines on the market for in-plants, plus reports from a couple installations....
Trade Binderies : The Laws of Justification
February 2010
One misconception in some circles is that trade binderies have outlived their usefulness, that the current progression is toward full-service print shops assembling their own...
Binding and Finishing : Shifting Gears
October 2009For postpress, there was cause for optimism. While binding and finishing gear, in general, has a long life span, there was some speculation that printers...
Bellak Color -- Making Magic In Miami
February 2009
MANNY FERNANDEZ Sr. has that deep vocal tone and rolling Cuban accent that is so captivating, it makes you wish he’d talk all day. But...
Bindery Sustainability -- Greening from End to End
February 2009
MATT ANSON’S quiver runneth over with “green” arrows. His multi-location binding, finishing and packaging company, Bindagraphics, is a mega corporation that has embraced sustainability practices...
Digital Finishing -- Making a Stitch in Time
February 2009
AS DIGITAL printing demand, applications and operations grow, adjustments are being made in finishing strategies. In-, near- and off-line solutions all still have their place,...
Tips for Better Perfect Binding
May 2009To help you pick the perfect binder for your in-plant, and get the best performance out of it, we consulted the folks who know this...
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