Poole based The Digital Press has installed a DigiBook 150 PUR perfect binding machine from Morgana. The product replaces an existing hot melt perfect binding system.
Commenting on the purchase decision, Peter Randall, owner of The Digital Press, said: ‘The DigiBook 150 is ideal for the busy digital print shop that needs to invest in short run perfect binding. We have a regular requirement to bind 200 to 300 page books with very short run lengths. Our previous hot melt system was simply not reliable for binding that many pages, but other PUR systems are simply too large, too complex, and too expensive for runs that might be as low as just half a dozen copies.
‘The DigiBook 150 is easy to set up, and is perfectly suited to run from six to 200 copies – which covers just about all of our needs. It certainly offers the best value on the market in terms of perfect binding solutions.’
Peter Randall with the new machine.
The DigiBook 150 is the entry level product. 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. A key feature of the 150, and across the DigiBook range, 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 a hermetically sealed glue and cleaning system which gives the quickest possible start up and shutdown of the system with minimal glue wastage.
