Ipswich Printers Speed up Throughput with Horizon HT30
Ipswich B3 short-run and fine art print specialist, Healeys Printers, is enjoying faster workflow following the addition of a Horizon HT30 three-side trimmer from Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS).

Healeys’ Managing Director, Philip Dodd, explains: “We had three guillotines but only had two guillotine operators. So we calculated that it would be more economical to sell one of the guillotines if we could find an efficient way of trimming the books coming off our Horizon BQ470 perfect binder that wouldn’t impact the other guillotining work.
“We went to Ipex and had a look at the HT30. It was perfect. We don’t use the BQ470 every day, so the HT30 can be wheeled in and wheeled out, as and when it’s needed and that makes much more sense. It can easily handle the runs of between 1,000 and 3,000 that we often do.
“The introduction into the bindery has gone very well. We tended to have one lady running the BQ470 and another person feeding book blocks into the guillotine. Now we have the HT30 positioned next to the BQ470 which has eased production. It has removed a bottleneck and improved workflow. And the quality is also very good indeed.”

As well as streamlining throughput, the HT30 is an easy to operate, quick set up, durable, productive, CIP4 and JDF ready compact trimming system. It includes a touch screen monitor for changeovers in less than 60 seconds, can store up to 20 jobs in its memory, and produces up to 500 books per hour. The books are simply loaded into the deep pile feeder and the machine picks them up and processes them itself.

Dodd concludes: “We are very pleased with it. It was a good buy, just like everything else we have bought from Intelligent Finishing Systems.”