Digital book printer Bonacia has purchased a Foliant Taurus 530NG laminator from IFS.
The Peterborough-based company, which produces work on two Kodak NexPresses and two Xerox Nuveras, made the investment in order to streamline its workflow and reduce bottlenecks.
‘Demand for books has increased significantly, particularly in softback books where we have seen 20 – 25% year-on-year growth,’ explained production manager Carl Whitelock. ‘We were using our NexPresses to add a coating but that was creating a bottleneck. We also had an old laminator for our hardback book production, but that was laborious to set up. At the start of the year we sat down to look at the best ways to address these issues and increase capacity. That was when we decided a high speed laminator would be the answer.
‘We then looked around at what was one the market and liked the Foliant. We liked its ease of operation and set up. Its speed means we can get more jobs out the door faster. We think that in the long term it will save us a couple of days in terms of tunaround times and that will allow us to increase our capacity.’
The 30m/min Taurus 530NG, which incorporates feeder, laminator, and a sheet separator in a single construction, comes with the Foliant Multi-functional Inprinting Unit. This makes foiling and spot varnish faster and more affordable for short run and personalised print by applying foil or varnish to a pre-printed black toner before the sheet is reprinted mono or four colour. It runs a wide range of colours including gold, silver, red and green and a clear gloss for spot varnish.
The new system joins a Horizon BQ-470 four clamp perfect binder, a Horizon SPF-200 bookletmaker with HOF-400 digital sheet feeder and a Perfecta guillotine.
