Diamond Print Services is the first graphic arts company in Great Britain to invest in the Muller Martini Ventura MC book sewing machine with the tween option.
Ordering two units, the tween option will give the London based bookbinder the ability to produce signatures with different sizes and positions. The new units will also improve the company’s production capacity as well as its flexibility and quality.
Operations director Nick Dingwall, said, ‘The tween option in thread sewing will open new markets for us, since designers and printing companies are always on the lookout for unique niche products.’
In addition to the tween option, the units will posses the servo technology of the Ventura MC, which automates all book-specific width settings, except for the gathering tray and book stacker. According to the company this feature reduces job changeover times and increases adjustment precision.
‘MC technology is the future for us bookbinders,’ added Mr Dingwall. ‘It enables us to stitch even heavy paper types and a wide range of sizes to the very highest quality standards.’
Used alongside a Diamant bookline and a Prima saddle stitcher from Muller Martini, the company will be the only bookbindery in Great Britain capable of also thread sewing smaller folded signatures in a book block.
The company focuses solely on print finishing as the partner of numerous printing plants and produces softcover and hardcover books with print runs of 50 to one million copies.
