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An old school bindery trick perfect for the digital age.

A simple tip to dramatically improve rotary micro perforating on your folding and scoring machines. Video demonstrates this common pitfall in rotary operations and the little-known remedy.

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 earlier this month? Fact of the matter is, no such beast exists. Here are some observations that have two sides to them, and may or may not represent the truth.

Millions of dollars of training resources are available to small businesses courtesy of Uncle Sam and your state government.

The goal of the designer and printer is to reproduce a job as close to the original as possible, in any quantity.

A reader recently called in with this problem: The center spread of his saddle stitched book was falling out periodically. The center signature was a 16pp 8.5 x 11 and the question was "how can we modify the score on the spine to prevent the signature from falling out?"

What’s exciting about the 2-Stage Auto Feeder is that a clever engineering trick has nearly eliminated the negatives of a friction feeder by splitting up the workload into two sets of rollers.

THOUGH PRINT 09 may have gotten off to a slow start, the crowds eventually showed up. And when they did, many of them headed right for the bindery equipment. Nowhere was that more true than at the Standard Finishing Systems exhibit, which was bustling with activity on the third day of the show, even as other booths appeared to be on siesta. Mark Hunt, director of marketing for Standard, thought he knew why.

Tech-ni-fold Ltd in the UK was issued US Patent 7,563,220 on July 21, 2009 for it’s popular Tri-Creaser™, a creasing device which eliminates fiber cracking and retro-fits most popular folding and scoring machines.

The Binding Industries Association (BIA), the preeminent organization for the graphic finishing and custom loose-leaf manufacturing industry, announced today its 2009 Product of Excellence Awards (POE) winners. From around the world, companies submitted their best work to be judged against that of their peers.

DESPITE THE cancellation of the ACUP conference, ACUP lived on this year in a Webinar that attracted more than 100 in-plant managers from around the world. IPG partnered with the Association of College and University Printers to bring about the event, held on what would have been the last day of the ACUP conference. Three of the speakers who were scheduled to talk at ACUP gave their presentations online. Then, to replicate some of the free-flowing shop talk that is ACUP's hallmark, three past ACUP hosts held a lively roundtable discussion about the latest developments in their shops.

It was a month before Christmas at Messiah College, and the president's Christmas cards were cracking. The in-plant at this Christian college in Grantham, Pa., was doing everything it could think of to make the card—one of its most important jobs of the year—look its best. But after coming off of the Xerox DocuColor 260 and being scored and folded, the cards were still cracking on the folds.

"We backed off the pressure on the rollers, we [made] certain that the grain of the paper was going the right way, and we let the cards sit for a few days so that the paper would gather back some moisture. No matter what we tried, we were not happy," says Dwayne A. Magee, director of Messiah College Press and Postal Services.

SEWICKLEY, PA— October 9, 2008—The Binding Industries Association (BIA), the preeminent organization for the binding industry, is proud to announce its 2009 Product of Excellence (POE) Awards sponsors.

Drupa will begin in less than two weeks. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer will be there, in Düsseldorf, Germany, checking out all the latest technologies. To give you a peek at what’s ahead, here are just a couple of the latest pre-Drupa announcements: • ECRM will feature three new platesetters: MAKO 2x, a 2-page platesetter offering a full resolution range of 1200 to 3556 dpi; MAKO 4x, using next-generation optical technology that, with ECRM e-circuitry, delivers high quality imaging; MAKO 8x, an 8-page device that covers all formats for 2, 4, 6 and 8-page signatures with resolutions from 1800 dpi to 3556 dpi. ECRM

MONTAGUE, NJ—05/01/08—Imagine folding and trimming cover stocks or multi-panel brochures 2 or 3 up on a folder, effectively doubling the yield (or better.) Conventional folding machine wisdom has it that achieving guillotine quality trimming or die quality creasing (scoring) is just not possible. Yet for the past four years, Technifold’s Multi-Tool & EZ-Fit Tri-Creaser have been doing just that in thousands of shops, radically reducing run times on the folder by providing in-line guillotine quality cutting, working together with the Tri-Creaser to produce letterpress quality creasing. This year at Drupa they will be introducing the next generation of Multi-Tool and Tri-Creaser to provide

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could produce perfect letterpress style creasing on your folding machine that solved your cracking problems forever?

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