KJS Mail has updated its booklet making line, installing a late model Horizon SPF200s stitch and trim unit and a new VAC1000 collating tower to overcome reliability issues with the old, now replaced, machine.
Managing director Stuart Speechley says: “By bringing our capabilities up to date we knew we could be more efficient and experience less downtime. We have just put an 80,000 run through the system and it has saved us many hours. We can let it run and that means our team can turn their attention other systems at the same time.”
The system will switch easily between production of A4 booklets to A5 booklets used to fit a C5 envelope for mailing. The updated machine has the latest in touch screen control and set up. It links to a MKU54 mobile knife unit.
The Peterborough company has the full spread of print and mailing capabilities in-house printing from three Xerox digital presses and a four-colour B2 Sakurai with LED UV for litho printing. “We are doing a lot of variable data digital work that suits our sweet spots, though we can still do a longer run mailing,” he says.
“There has been a surge in direct mail recently to do with people being at home and more receptive to mail.”
And no sooner has the company invested in booklet making than it takes delivery of a CMC paper wrapping line. This is expected to arrive at the end of this month, about a year after the company had initially planned to invest.
Speechley says that a delivery in spring last year was shelved because of Covid-19. “We were told that a delivery from Italy was shelved so the plans for the year fell through,” he says. “Now a year later we are back to where we were.
“We have been offering potato starch films for wrapping but we have a few clients telling us they wanted us to supply paper wrapping or else we would lose their job.”
