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Binding: The Rodney Dangerfield of Printing

Posted on September 12, 2007 at 9:53am, written by Charlie Corr, VP Corporate Strategy

Binding is the Rodney Dangerfield of the printing industry. It never gets any respect. A veteran paper cutter once told me that in all his years nobody had ever come up to him and said, “Great cut Jim.”

The bindery has lagged the rest of the industry in terms of automation. The average finishing piece of equipment in the US is eight years old. While there is a standard for bindery automation (Universal Printer, Pre- and Postprocessing Interface UP³I) its existence is a widely held...read more

Tags: bindery, binding, binding automation, case bound books, graph expo, laser die cutting, workflow