KB Digital has expanded its finishing capabilities with the purchase of a Morgana PowerSquare 160 bookletmaker. The print company is a long-standing Morgana customer and the bookletmaker will join a Morgana Major folder and a Morgana AutoCreaser Pro 50 at its Bristol premises.
The Morgana PowerSquare 160 is an open-architecture booklet-making system that staples, folds, forms and trims in a single pass. The machine can be hand-fed, or configured with one or two vacuum feeders, each with a 270mm capacity. It can produce a wide range of formats including A6, A5, A4, and A4 landscape on stocks of up to 400gsm.
‘Customers are always keen to find new ways to present their printed product,’ said KB Digital owner Keith Bohr. ‘We see the A4 landscape capabilities of this bookletmaker as an ideal solution to that need. Our Ricoh print engine is capable of producing long prints, so the PowerSquare 160 now gives us the capability to produce the finished article.
‘I did look at other suppliers’ products, but the ability of the Morgana unit to also produce a square-back finish to booklets made a big difference. It’s the sort of finishing touch that customers don’t know they need until they see it – then they are excited by it! It gives that paperback book look to a booklet or brochure, making it look more superior to the standard folded finish.’
The PowerSquare 160 purchase was completed after Mr Bohr ran a live job on the machine at Morgana’s Milton Keynes showroom. ‘Running real work is the best way to see a machine in action. It was only a few hundred copies, so I took the job along to the demo. The machine was very easy to set up, and such a short run that it was produced in minutes, but it gave me the confidence to go ahead and place the order.’
