Every minute counts, and on a deadline, those minutes can be costly. The average commercial printer will produce a variety of jobs on a range of stocks, leading to different makeready times when those jobs reach the saddlestitcher. When stitching jobs of various sizes and lengths, slow changeovers can be costly. To keep pace with newer equipment additions ' and remain competitive, Suttle-Straus (www.suttle-straus.com), a $34 million company specializing in commercial printing, fulfillment, mailing and Web-enabled solutions, and Evergreen Printing & Publishing Co. (www.egpp.com), a 220-employee commercial printer specializing in four-color on newsprint, installed Heidelberg and Muller Martini saddlestitchers earlier this year.
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