The latest digital print "buzz" has centered around the new generation of high-speed continuous form (CF) ink jet printers. There are also already installed many toner-based mono CF printers. Many of these printers are used to make perfect-bound books. The perfect-binder is usually used off-line, since there has only been one (high cost) in-line perfect-binding production system available until now.

To address this limitation, IBIS is pleased to announce the launch of a very attractively-priced in-line perfect binding system for continuous-web digital printers, called the Perfect Binder PB-600S. The system is built around the single clamp C.P. Bourg BB3002 Perfect Binder, and the Challenge CMT-330 three-knife trimmer.

IBIS has long offered the Bourg binder and Challenge trimmer as part of their Smart-binder SB-4 system, which produces both saddle-stitched and perfect-bound books, and also their PB-600C system (which includes a sheet collector and is used in-line with cut-sheet digital printers). The Bourg BB3002 has proven itself to be a very capable binder. It can "auto-adjust" for various book thicknesses, can produce gate-fold covers, has a PUR option, and produces high-quality soft-bound books at a rate of around 400 books per hour. The Challenge CMT-330 three-knife trimmer connects directly in-line with the binder delivery via a book cooling elevator. The system can also adjust the trimmer automatically to each book's required trim dimensions and can match personalised covers to book contents.

The new PB-600S provides a way of using the Bourg binder and Challenge trimmer in-line with high speed web printers. The slideshow and video (click the left image) shows the PB-600S process.

Contact us using details below if you would like more information.

Yours sincerely,
John Cracknell
Managing Director, IBIS Bindery Systems