By Erin Judge, contributing writer, PostPress From running complex machinery to unloading and moving materials between offline processes to manually handling intricate tasks, finishing widely is recognized as the most labor-intensive and bottleneck-prone stage in the lifecycle of a printed product. “Postpress operations can account for over 35% of total production time,” … [Read more...] about Automation and Robotics are Creating a Postpress Revolution
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Bindery Automation Circa 2024
By Brad Emerson, general manager, www.fixyourownbindery.com What have printers and finishers/binders seen in bindery automation advancements in recent years? Beyond robotics increasing their labor-saving advantages with paper banding and palletizing, it pretty much has been digital bindery automation advancements. While most binderies realize the benefits of well-calibrated … [Read more...] about Bindery Automation Circa 2024
Preparing for Today’s Bookbinding Applications
By Dianna Brodine, managing editor, PostPress At the height of the pandemic, a significant increase in durable goods orders kept manufacturers producing at near record levels. Consumers who found themselves at home hit “add to cart” as they made purchase decisions on items to make their living spaces and daily lives more comfortable, including furniture, home appliances and … [Read more...] about Preparing for Today’s Bookbinding Applications
Folding Carton Production: Automation to the Rescue for Workflow Challenges
By Liz Stevens, writer, PostPress From the earliest days in the folding carton finishing sector, there has been a push for greater output quantity, higher product quality, increased speed and improved efficiency. Each time a goal in one of these areas is achieved, the honeymoon is short-lived because, in the blink of an eye, another new goal crops up. Folding carton finishers … [Read more...] about Folding Carton Production: Automation to the Rescue for Workflow Challenges
Perfect Binding Automates: Handling Digitally and/or Offset-Printed Jobs
by Hallie Forcinio, contributing writer, PostPress As printers face a greater mix of digital- and offset-printed jobs, shorter run lengths and a tight labor market, perfect binders have become more automated, flexible and connected. Traditional, large-volume printers are migrating to shorter, digital run lengths, while midsize digital shops doing print-on-demand, short-run … [Read more...] about Perfect Binding Automates: Handling Digitally and/or Offset-Printed Jobs
Duplo USA Offers Fiery Workflow Integrations
Duplo USA Corporation, a Santa Ana, California provider of print finishing solutions, has newly integrated its DC-618 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser and DPC-400 Digital Die Cutter with its Fiery workflow automation software. The DC-618 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser delivers professionally finished applications such as business cards, postcards and brochures up to 23 sheets per minute, and … [Read more...] about Duplo USA Offers Fiery Workflow Integrations
Bindery Automation circa 2019
by Brad Emerson www.fixyourownbindery.com While bindery managers currently are inundated with an unlimited supply of “do-or-die” automation upgrades, ultimately the production and operation needs of each facility will determine which upgrades will keep the operation alive, which will put it ahead of the pack and which will constitute a significant investment with limited … [Read more...] about Bindery Automation circa 2019
10 Time-Consuming Tasks You Should Automate Now
by Gail Bullen, Business Development Manager, Avanti Let’s face it, your business has fundamentally changed over the past few years. You now have dozens, if not hundreds, of “micro” orders coming into the shop every day: short-run jobs that customers expect at a very fast turnaround time. You know you can’t touch a $500 order 10 times and expect to make any money. You hear the … [Read more...] about 10 Time-Consuming Tasks You Should Automate Now
USPS Ruling Advances EnvyPak’s Automation Letter Rate Approval
EnvyPak, Columbus, Ohio, has received a ruling from the US Postal Service (USPS) that provides lower automation letter rates for a specially-formatted, polypropylene (poly) envelope that now does not require an affixed mailing label, can be sealed with glue applied by lettershops and is fully machine-insertable. Using this specially-formatted, Automation Letter Rate (ALR) … [Read more...] about USPS Ruling Advances EnvyPak’s Automation Letter Rate Approval
Top Five Tasks You Should Automate
PostPress When thinking about automation, people tend to picture never-ending assembly lines run by robots with nary a human in sight. Management often loves automation when it means greater profit margins, while employees can feel it can be a threat to their jobs. However, much of today's advancing technology has been designed not necessarily to eliminate the human element of … [Read more...] about Top Five Tasks You Should Automate