Finishing - Material Handling

A Hunkeler continuous-style end sheet tipping machine has been installed at Muscle Bound Bindery.

How commercial printers can tap into new revenue streams with the label market, specific label inks, coatings, substrates and finishing

Heidelberg’s recently launched Stahlfolder BH/CH series of professional buckle plate and combination folders offers high productivity.

The eleventh Hunkeler Innovationdays was the largest and most diverse yet, with almost 6,000 visitors traveling from over 50 nations.

At the Xeikon Café, MBO will produce 4-up, 16-page pharmaceutical leaflets on its Digital Pharmaceutical Leaflet Solution.

Coupled with the powerful Sagitta laminator and feeder, Komfi’s Hot Knife technology offers a highly effective way to separate films.

Together with its partners, Heidelberg will demo digitally produced brochures at Hunkeler Innovationdays.

New feeder technology from Heidelberg, the Stahfolder PFX (Pallet Feeder eXtended), has been honored with an InterTech Technology Award from Printing Industries of America. The Stahlfolder PFX Feeder was recognized for its success in extending the proven benefits of the stream feeder technology used in Heidelberg offset presses to the folding department.

The Book Factory System (BFS)—created by two entrepreneurs in The Netherlands—is a mechanical and electrical system for the automatic movement of materials from print to finishing, that can increase efficiency substantially.

Printers have had to contend with an entire universe of substrates since Gutenberg. One of the major challenges has been the very lightweight papers used for financial, pharmaceutical, and legal printed pieces. Printing on these is no joy, as they don't have the tensile strength or body of heavier grades.