The KF640 bookletmaker is the first hand fed 640mm sheet length bookletmaker, designed to work with digital and litho output
Warwick Printing Company in Leamington Spa is one of the first printers to take delivery of Ashgate’s new KF640 bookletmaker and trimmer with the squarefold inline unit.
It is the first hand fed 640mm sheet length bookletmaker, designed to work with digital and litho output.
‘We have a KASfold 3000 hand-fed bookletmaker, which serves us well for shorter runs but is limited and is unable to produce A4 landscape booklets,’ said Paul Young, director. ‘Our Xerox Versant 80 digital press has the facility to print a longer sheet which meets the growing demand for short run, A4 landscape books. Before we bought the KF640 we had to manually stitch the booklets which was rather time consuming.
‘With the 640T trimmer and squarefold unit, [the KF640] fits well in our digital department where space is at a premium. It produces high quality books and allows us extra options for finishing booklets,’ Mr Young added. ‘It is a manually operated machine but for the shorter quantities we do, it’s ideal. It has the versatility of finishing booklets from A6 to A4 landscape.’
The company has kept the KASfold 3000 as a back-up machine.
The squarefold in-line unit sits between the bookletmaker and the trimmer and is proving very beneficial. ‘We don’t use it all the time but some of our 48 page magazines are quite “springy”. The squarefold unit is by far the most efficient way to give them a professional, perfect bound look with the security of a stapled finish. Like the KF 640 it finishes booklets from A6 to A4 landscape, giving them the quality we require.’
Mr Young concluded, ‘This investment will give us the opportunity to expand our short run booklet and magazine business as well as producing more personalised and laminated books.’
