PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Midler Martini Primera E140

摘要

This new saddle-stitcher range aimsto persuade printers to bringfinishing in-house. The UK's printers send too much of their saddle-stitching out to trade finishers. That's the view of Andreas Schillinger, managing director of Muller Martini UK, who cites the old arguments - loss of control, loss of revenue, vulnerability to delays, poor quality and even traffic jams - as reasons why printers should think about bringing their stitching back in-house. Fortunately, Muller Martini has a range of kit designed to support that exercise, beginning with the baby Valore. This bit of kit runs at 6,000 books per hour (bph) and has varying levels of automation and quick makeready functions for flexible production, which is much needed by in-house binderies. And for printers who want more books per hour than that, Muller has launched a new middle-range stitcher series, the Primera, designed to handle a wide range of signature sizes and types without complaint, at highest-ever productivity levels in their class.