HORIZON StitchLiner
Essex printer and publisher Maypole Press’s Horizon StitchLiner has been improving the bottom line since it was installed. It has also streamlined workflow and increased production speeds explains Dean Robinson, Print Manager of Maypole Press:
It has been paying for itself since day one, there are a couple of jobs alone that will cover the cost of the investment over the year. We had an older Duplo system and it was time to upgrade. We saw the Horizon StitchLiner in operation at Print Efficiently and then we went to see it at an IFS customer. We liked the robust build and the fact you can adjust the thickness of the book to give a nice tight fold.
The good quality collators aid production and workflow, the trimmer gives a neater edge and the whole system is easy to set up and run. I even set it up the other day following prompts on the touch screen. There is no downtime and we no longer have any bottlenecks.
It is a necessity, we couldn’t do without it. We have one weekly job that is about 8,000 A4 magazine averaging 32pp and we completed it in half the time. Many of our jobs are short runs. We can interrupt longer runs on the StitchLiner but because it finishes the work so quickly we don’t need to do that very often.
