The production of examination booklets using digital printers is increasing. Examination papers must be bound so as to maintain integrity and security. The examination authorities insist that booklets are made to their exact specification, including correct questions, page-sequence, and in some cases individual personalisation.

During the last two years IBIS has supplied its Smart-binder systems for Exam paper production at different locations as far apart as Japan, the UK and the USA, both in-line with digital printers, and off-line (with sheet pile feeders).

In Japan off-line Smart-binders SB-3s are producing individually-personalised student test papers with personalised covers and constantly-varying page count. The sheets are printed on multiple colour cut-sheet printers, and are bound on the Smart-binder using exclusively our ISG (Individual Sheet Gluing) cold gluing system.

These Japanese Smart-binders are fitted with both bar code reading and camera print-recognition on both the inside sheets and the outside covers in order to ensure booklet page-integrity (i.e. to ensure each student only receives exactly what is intended for them and no one else). This means that students sitting near to each other do not have identical papers (to avoid risk of copying answers).

In the UK and the USA, Smart-binders are producing examination papers in-line with digital printers at up to 290 feet/min (88 meters/min) web speed.

Some examination papers require tear-out answer sheets. For this purpose Smart-binders have been
fitted with our optional DMP-100 dynamic perforation option. The perforator acts automatically under bar–code control in order to perforate only the sheets which require tear-out. A line of micro perforation-holes are placed close to the sheet fold, either on the left side and/or the right side. A bar code printed on each sheet determines automatically which sheet or sheets need to be perforated for later tear-out.

Contact us for further information about producing Examination Papers using the IBIS Smart-binder.

Yours sincerely

    John Cracknell   

Managing Director

IBIS Bindery Systems

www.ibis-bindery.com

Smart-Binder: giving you competitive advantage through book quality, uptime and reduced production costs.

Ø      Heavy duty system for maximum up-time.

Ø      Operation in-line with highest speed digital web printers, or off-line from a pile feeder (or both).

Ø      Unique ISG cold-gluing gives improved strength and better lay-flat compared with saddle-stitching

Ø      Individual sheet folding for optimum lay-flat and saddle-bound books up to 10 mm thick.

Ø      Bar code sheet tracking for variable thickness personalised books.

Ø      Four different models available including SB-4 for saddle bound books and perfect bound books up to 60mm thick.

Ø      Large selection of optional modules available to suit individual customer needs: