Bristol-based print business KB Digital has further expanded its finishing capabilities with the purchase of a Morgana PowerSquareTM 160 booklet maker.
Commenting on the reasons behind latest addition KB Digital owner Keith Bohr said: “Customers are always keen to find new ways to present their printed product. We see the A4 landscape capabilities of this booklet maker as an ideal solution to that need. Our Ricoh print engine is capable of producing long prints, so the PowerSquare TM 160 now gives us the capability to produce the finished article.
“I did look at other suppliers’ products, but the ability of the Morgana unit to also produce a square-back finish to booklets made a big difference. It’s the sort of finishing touch that customers don’t know they need until they see it – then they are excited by it! It gives that paperback book look to a booklet or brochure, making it look more superior to the standard folded finish.”
KB Digital is also a long-standing Morgana customer, with current equipment including a Morgana Major folder and a Morgana AutoCreaser Pro 50.
The PowerSquare TM 160 purchase was completed when Keith ran a live job on the machine in Morgana’s Milton Keynes showroom. “Running real work is the best way to see a machine in action,” said Keith. “It was only a few hundred copies, so I took the job along to the demo. The machine was very easy to set up, and such a short run that it was produced in minutes, but it gave me the confidence to go ahead and place the order.” Morgana area sales representative, Martin Torbett, was instrumental in making the order happen: “It is the ideal machine to give KB Digital a real advantage in the market.”
Morgana PowerSquare TM 160 is an open-architecture, complete booklet making system that staples, folds, forms and trims in a single pass to produce added value SquareBack books.
The Morgana PowerSquareTM 160 meets the needs of mid to high volume printers, and is capable of producing A4 landscape books. The machine can be hand fed, or configured with one or two precise and reliable vacuum feeders, each with a 270mm capacity. Optical mark recognition (OMR) is standard, with an option to add barcode readers. Finishing print jobs offline gives flexibility in the workflow and allows the unit to handle the output from multiple digital engines.
The PowerSquareTM 160 is a modular open-architecture system that is flexible and versatile: it lets the user produce booklets from a wide range of sheet sizes and materials, including A4 landscape format and heavy cover stocks. Optional accessories for full bleed trimming and book stacking enable users to increase productivity and efficiency. The unit can produce a wide range of formats including A6, A5, A4, and A4 landscape on stock of up to 400gsm. Booklets of up to 160 pages of 80gsm, or up to a thickness of 8mm, can easily be produced, replacing the need for perfect binding for a great many publications.
KB Digital is a one-stop solution for the design and printing of corporate literature, marketing material, brochure printing, leaflet printing and business stationery for companies in the Bristol area. For more information see the www.kbdigital.co.uk website or call 0117 975 6888
Plockmatic Group develops, manufactures and markets an extensive range of document finishing systems sold under the Plockmatic and Morgana brand names. These products work inline or offline together with the world’s best digital printing systems.
Plockmatic and Morgana make products to mail, fold, crease, perforate and bind documents with extraordinary precision, turning stacks of printed paper into the beautifully finished documents for your customers every day.
Morgana Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Plockmatic International, a part of the Plockmatic Group. The company supplies a wide range of innovative and market leading offline post-press equipment for customers involved in the many and varied activities of the printing industry throughout the world. Equipment is manufactured at a number of Plockmatic owned plants across the globe.
The sales, marketing, and service operations of Morgana Systems are headquartered in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. The business is closely allied to Watkiss Automation, another innovative suppler of post-press equipment owned by Plockmatic Group, based in Sandy, Bedfordshire, UK.
Beginning with the launch of the revolutionary AutoCreaser in 2000, Morgana Systems has led the way in developing new and innovative solutions to cope with the special requirements of the digital printer. Morgana products that have achieved worldwide success during this time include the AutoCreaser Pro range and DigiFold Pro range of integrated creaser/folder solutions. Since its acquisition by Plockmatic in 2013 the product portfolio has been extended with a wide range of booklet making systems to meet every production requirement.
More recent product ranges to find significant success across world markets include the Morgana DigiBook range of PUR perfect binders, and the Morgana BM350/500 high-capacity booklet makers, which have been developed jointly with Plockmatic.
Morgana Systems is a preferred offline finishing partner for all of the leading manufacturers of digital print engines, whilst the Plockmatic International manufactures a wide range of innovative inline finishing solutions.
Full details of Morgana’s product line-up can be found at: http://morgana.co.uk/
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