Hobs Reprographics, said to be the largest independent reprographics company in Europe, with a network of 29 UK branches and over 300 staff across the UK and Ireland, made a visit to drupa and purchased a Nearline Watkiss PowerSquare 200 booklet making system.
Hobs has provided reprographic services to a broad range of clients in the AEC, legal and creative design sectors since 1969. Following the installation of two HP Indigo presses, the company now operates a division focusing on high quality colour presentation material and documents. It is for this work that it turned to Watkiss to provide a solution for some very individual booklet making requirements.
‘Much of the work that we produce for our clients is printed on a minimum of 160 or 170gsm stock, frequently with high paginations, and a conventional booklet maker wouldn’t handle this work,’ said Hobs director Christie O’Brien. ‘We also produce some very long documents – as much as 15,000 pages. We were looking for better presentation than wire-binding, and the SquareBack finish of the Watkiss PowerSquare provided the perfect solution.’
The Watkiss PowerSquare 200 is a booklet making system that stitches, folds and trims to produce square-spined SquareBack books up to 200 pages thick. It features fully automatic settings for different book size and pagination, including variable stitch leg length for varying book thickness.
The Powersquare is available in offline, nearline and online configurations.
Contact: www.watkiss.com
