Don Piontek shares some of the diverse finishing applications and systems he’s come across in his career.
During a recent trade show, Don Piontek looked for the newest finishing technology and he found innovations in mechanical binding.
In the search for new finishing developments, Don Piontek received a LinkedIn press release alert on something called “Vpaper.”
Here’s a short list of solutions to ensure a smooth PUR perfect binding process.
A few weeks ago, I reported on Muller Martini assuming much of Kolbus' perfect binding and hard-cover systems portfolio. So, I thought I would provide an update. Both firms are giants in the postpress field, with many, many years of history of providing continuous bindery innovation. When you think about it, this was inevitable.
So, I was doing some weekend planning on Friday when an email arrived in my inbox with the simple subject line “WOW!” Who could resist opening such a message? The announcement was that Muller Martini was effectively taking over the perfect binding and bookline business of Kolbus.
The education segment has been the subject of a push by various test producing firms to ditch the printed test booklet and go digital.
As we approach Christmas, Don Piontek is feeling more optimistic than ever about print and print finishing.
We have seen lots of advances in adhesives for bookbinding over the years, with PUR (polyurethane reactive) adhesive being the last major game changer. But there is now a revived interest in protein-based adhesives.
Many, many years ago there was a children’s book titled “The Little Engine That Could.” Somewhat like the little engine, IBIS Bindery Systems Ltd. was founded in the U.K. in 1999 by a small group of bindery systems engineers. They were the first firm to design a saddle stitching system that was specifically designed to process digitally printed sheets printed on continuous toner or inkjet printers
