Print.Work has become the first company in the UK with the latest CP Bourg BB3002 automated perfect binding lines, and the first since Duplo took responsibility for CP Bourg in this country,
The Leeds company has a host of Duplo technology from five multifinishers and two bookletmakers and previously used a handed perfect binder from the supplier. However, growing demand for perfect bound books and other products led to the online printer searching for a new perfect binder.
The automation and modular approach on the CP Bourg won the day says co-owner and managing director Dave Rushton.
“We started perfect binding a couple of years ago with a simple handed machines and it has grown into a nice part of the business covering books, photobooks and magazines. We liked the Bourg because it’s modular. Now we’re adding the Challenge three-knife trimmer to give us more automation in production.”
The company can leave the Bourg to run without constant supervision. The Book Block Loader has capacity for up to 120 books of different formats. The book blocks are loaded into hoppers which feed the clamps for treatment, glueing and delivery. Print.Work has to trim the books on a guillotine, something that will end once the Challenge is installed.
The binder was installed along with its latest DC648 multifinisher. This comes with the ST100 stacker to make unattended operation easier to support.
Print.Work produces a wide range of work, often low order value, for a host of small designers, creators and similar businesses, sold through its website. This includes invitations, greetings cards, light packaging, menus, posters and art prints amounting to an average of 250 orders a day.
The company runs two HP Indigos and a Fujifilm Revoria PC1120 supported by Canon Image Prograph printers. Print.Work can print metallic, white, clear and fluorescent colours on both press platforms. On the finishing side it has both Intec and Vivid cutting tables, an AeroDieCut small format platen
