Words & Spaces has added landscape book production and streamlined operations with the purchase of a Horizon SPF-200L bookletmaker and other equipment from Intelligent Finishing Systems.
The Isle of Man printer, which produces work for a wide range of customers including Santander, Friends Provident, Isle of Man Post and the Isle of Man Government using Konica Minolta and Oki digital presses as well as Ryobi litho ones, had an unusual problem in that any outsourced work sent to mainland UK entailed a long turnaround.
Managing director Mark Green explained, ‘It was time to upgrade our bookletmaker and we wanted the ability to offer landscape book production in house. Before, when we were asked for the service, it made sense to get it printed and finished off the island but we wanted to be able to manage that ourselves.’
Already an existing Horizon user, Mr Green commented, ‘We did look at a leading competitor’s offering but we are pretty loyal to Horizon. We also liked the Horizon SPF-200L’s landscape capabilities. It is something we can now proactively promote as a service that can be completed fully in-house and meet increasingly short turnaround times.
‘We also chose a third tower collator, a Horizon VAC-1000, and a Horizon ST-40 stacker to help produce book blocks to feed the perfect binder. We can also now more easily handle grey boards for NCR jobs,’ he added.
Mr Green concluded, ‘We are looking forward to being able to proactively sell landscape booklet production as well as enjoy the streamlining and capacity improvements enabled by the collator and the stacker. The overall investment will expand our service offering and make us more efficient.’
