Apprintable has further grown its collection of Morgana equipment, adding a Morgana Systems BM4050 booklet-maker, complete with VFX dual bin feeder, and a new EBA Ideal 56 guillotine.
‘We had been outsourcing an ever-increasing amount of binding work. When we examined the numbers in detail, and the amount of margin that we were giving away, it was clear that we should now be producing this work in-house with our own equipment,’ explained Peter Haddad, managing director of the Wembley-based business.
The Morgana BM4000 suite of booklet-makers, introduced at The Print Show in 2022, provides an option for work with low-to-mid volume digital production printers. The BM4050 delivers high quality booklets, and is able to feed long printed sheets to produce a wide variety of applications, including A4 landscape booklets.
‘The new booklet maker is very robust – and it just eats up the work, faster than we can print it sometimes. There’s no doubt that it could keep up with two print engines working full-time – but that’s for the future. The fact that we can use the two bins on the feeder to produce the jobs at high speed – one bin for the heavier weight, laminated cover perhaps, and the second bin for the inner pages – is just great for now. It really does produce booklets quickly and efficiently,’ Mr Haddad added.
Currently the company has one full time digital press, a Xerox Versant 280, with its predecessor, a Ricoh Pro C5300s, still retained as a back-up for peak periods.
The purchase of a new guillotine has also helped speed up production. ‘Our previous guillotine was fairly basic – yes, it cut paper, but the new EBA Ideal 56 can store a multitude of different cut combinations. It can then guide the operator through each stage of the process – telling them when to turn the paper, and when to cut. It really does speed up the whole process, and it is usable by any of our team. You don’t need to be a guillotine expert any more,’ commented Mr Haddad.
