Morgana’s Bill Brown with the recently installed DigiBook 150
IT Print Services at Manchester Metropolitan University has purchased and installed a DigiBook 150 PUR perfect binding machine from Morgana Systems Ltd.
The DigiBook 150 is an entry-level PUR perfect binding machine designed with digital print in mind. It is capable of approximately 150 cycles per hour and can bind publications with spine thicknesses from 2 mm through to 50 mm, in book sizes up to 380 x 320 mm.
Paul Squires, IT print services manager, said, ‘The DigiBook 150 is ideal for our busy University print service as the PUR technology produces the strength of bind that our staff and students need. It is also able to cope with a range of different substrates without weakening. Our most demanding task is binding students’ end of course books: these contain their project work, and will be reviewed by examiners and opened numerous times by both students and teachers. We found that hot-melt binding was not really meeting our high standards of production nor meeting our customers’ expectations.’
The University needs to meet these challenges with high standards and a focus to meet high expectations with the production demands for high volume and MFP print of more than 43 million pages per year. The service supports some 34,000 students and over 3000 teaching and support staff.
The print service handles a wide range of work, as is typical of a University print section. ‘Much of our work is focused on quality not quantity,’ added Mr Squires. ‘The Morgana DigiBook 150 helps us to maintain the quality aspect perfectly for our bound books, whether the run is a one-off or needs 2000 copies.’
A key feature of the 150 is the patented glue application system. Spine and side glue is applied using an adjustable slot applicator allowing accurate control over both functions to give the best possible results. All the machines have hermetically sealed glue and cleaning system, which gives the quickest possible start up and shutdown of the system with minimal glue wastage.
