Drupa Preview: Post-press equipment

Adhesive Binding

CP Bourg
Hall 13, Stand B69
CP Bourg’s range of both offline and inline perfect binders, including the Bourg Binder 3002, 3002 PUR and the Book Factory 2005, will be on show.

Duplo International
Hall 13, Stand B53
Duplo will demonstrate its new FKS PrintBind KB-4000, a single-clamp binder offering on-demand perfect binding. The KB-4000 uses PUR down the spine of the book, then side glues using EVA hotmelt glue. The PUR binder features a closed tank system. Duplo’s flagship binder, the DPB500 PUR, will also be demonstrated.

Heidelberg
Hall 1
While presses are always the focus of the German giant’s uber-stand, finishing is a key part of the portfolio and visitors won’t be disappointed. Heidelberg will show a new version of its Eurobind 1300/1300 PUR adhesive binder with new automatic functions. The machine uses a new 15-inch touchscreen, a new PUR glue application nozzle with a new side gluing unit, as well as a new, fully automated cover feeder. It now has functions for digital printing applications, such as an automatic block thickness-measuring device for single-copy production, and barcode recognition and printing to ensure cover and contents are compiled correctly. The manufacturer will also launch the new Diana X 80 folding carton machine.

Horizon International
Hall 13, Stand D36
Get ready for acronym-overkill as the Japanese manufacturer announces its exhibition line-up. Horizon will present its Flexible Binding System, comprising the CABS4000S + AF-566F Digital with PSX-56. This perfect binding solution can handle both offset and digital print output. The system is configured with an AF-566F digital + PSX-56 folding and stack output system with an interface conveyor to the CABS4000S perfect binding system. Horizon will present Digital Finishing Solutions, focused on roll-to-perfect binding and roll to saddlestitching to demonstrate efficient digital printed roll finishing. For perfect binding, the company’s Smart Book Solution will be introduced, combining workflow from digitally printed rolls to perfect binding production. This will focus on the short-run publishing market by running real publishing work.

Kolbus
Hall 16, Stands D22-1 and D22-2
Kolbus will devote much of its stand space to perfect binding machines, including an updated version of the KM 600C perfect binder. Other highlights should include the production of digitally printed hardcover products and flexible casemaking with varying spine widths with the LE 660 bookmark machine, BF 530 book finishing line, DS 392 compensating stacker and SU 652 jacketing machine.

Morgana Systems  
Hall 8b, Stand A65
Morgana, which operates in Australia as part of the Ferrostaal family, will introduce the DigiBook 300 for short-run PUR perfect bound books. It offers a touch screen panel and short makereadies, and uses a patented, hermetically sealed PUR application system for spine and side gluing with automatic glue cut-off, at 300 cycles per hour.

Muller Martini
Hall 14, Stand C21
The Swiss manufacturer is playing its cards close to its chest for Drupa 2012, but has said it will exhibit 10 machine systems for all its divisions. Expect to see new solutions for perfect binding “with optimal cost-effectiveness and the shortest processing times” thanks to the company’s Motion Control Technology. New systems for hardcover production – for example, for high-quality photobooks – will also be shown.

Watkiss Automation
Hall 13, Stand B70
Watkiss will demonstrate its system for squareback book production on the new Watkiss PowerSquare 200 Booklet Maker and the SpineMaster.

Wohlenberg
Hall 06, Stand A43
At time of writing, Wohlenberg had kept its Drupa plans a state secret, but the company’s City e, Master e, Champion e and Quickbinder perfect binding lines will almost certainly be on display. Expect numerous upgrades to these systems.

Collating and Bookletmaking

CP Bourg
Hall 13, Stand B69
CP Bourg has revealed little of its intentions for Drupa 2012, but its range of booklet makers, including the BM-e offline booklet maker, and BMEx and BDFEx inline booklet makers, will be demonstrated.

Buhrs
Hall 14, Stand D41
The mailroom equipment specialist will demonstrate its GS range of gathering stations and the modular CS400 gathering unit, which can be moved into position with conveyor rollers.

Duplo International
Hall 13, Stand B53
One of the highlights of Duplo’s booth will undoubtedly be the Digital System 5000 Pro. The device is the highest performer in Duplo’s range of digital bookletmakers. It includes the 400-sheets-a-minute Document Sheet Feeder 5000. Using collated sets in one half of the feeder and pre-printed covers in the other, it can produce booklets at higher speeds. HP Indigo users will be glad to know it is compatible with the digital presses for pallet loading.

Ferag
Hall 15, Stand D25
At Drupa 2012, Ferag will introduce TapeFix, a system to secure insert collections. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper to ensure that
collections stay together. TapeFix is also an inexpensive alternative for inserting supplements as part of the newspaper production process.
Also new is MiniSert, a low-cost
step from manual to automatic inserting. The modular inserting line can raise inserting production to a higher level at lower cost than previously.

Horizon International
Hall 13, Stand D36
Horizon is getting all friendly with fellow vendors for its Roll to Booklet Solution. The line will be shown running in collaboration with technology from Océ and Hunkeler. Rolls will be printed with the Océ ColorStream 3500, and unwound and cut with Hunkeler’s UW-6 and CS-6, then saddlestitched by the StitchLiner 6000 Digital. Products will be personalised booklets with variable sheet counts.

Kolbus
Hall 16, Stand D22
Kolbus will demonstrate its Bookjet concept of producing books automatically with different content and a different number of pages consecutively. Also present will be the BF530 book finishing line.

Morgana Systems
Hall 8b, Stand A65
The new DocuMaster MFC booklet system creases the sheets as part of the feeding and bookletmaking operation. It can feed specialised covers and inside pages from separate feed bins while still allowing for creasing of cover, centre or all pages of the book. It will be available in Australia later this year.

Muller Martini
Hall 14, Stand C21
The Swiss company will demonstrate new finishing solutions for producing books, magazines and catalogues, but has not released any details of them yet. These systems will reportedly match the higher output of new digital presses.

Watkiss Automation
Hall 13, B70
At Drupa 2012, Watkiss will debut the PowerSquare bookletmaker with full-bleed trimming, specifically targeting the colour digital print market. By adding a two-knife trimmer to the PowerSquare 200 booklet maker, full-bleed print jobs can be produced in a single pass direct from the printer, without trimming the sheets on a guillotine. Watkiss will also show variable data applications on the Nearline PowerSquare 200, a booklet making solution for digital printers that combines a dual sheet feeder with the Watkiss PowerSquare 200 booklet maker.

Cutting

Baumann-Wohlenberg
Hall 6, Stand A59
Baumann-Wohlenberg will debut three new cutting systems for different levels of production. The first line, for medium volumes, features automatic front-table feeding and a new automatic cutting system with lateral alignment pusher and a sheet stabiliser. The new “economy” cutting system incorporates the 92 ASE cutter with automatic waste disposal, with the BSH 2-450 pile hoist, the new BSB 2e automatic jogger and the new BA2 Ne unloader. This system suits the 50cm/70cm format. A high-volume system will be shown using a Wohlenberg 132 with a new knife-change system, and the new Superglide air-cushion table. It uses a BA3 unloader with automatic format recognition and a new automatic BASA 3 jogging system.

Bobst
Hall 10, Bobst A04
When it comes to shelling out money on high capital-cost finishing kit, Bobst Group hopes customers will focus on total cost of ownership (TCO) for printing and converting machinery. As part of this philosophy, it will also present machines that it says will “reduce waste and set-up time, and increase accuracy and output”.

CP Bourg
Hall 13, Stand B69
If you’re in Hall 13, make sure to check out Bourg’s CMT 330 three-knife trimmer. It has been designed for finishing on-demand digital printing, and handles soft-cover, perfect bound books at up to 400 books per hour. The CMT 330 is fully automatic, but can be manually controlled. It is possible to connect the CMT 330 in-line with the Bourg Binder BB3002.

Duplo International
Hall 13, Stand B53
In the world of cutting, Duplo’s solution is the DC-745 with Integrated Folding System. This multi-finishing machine was recently released and is targeting high-volume digital colour printers. It has integrated controls in one pass for slitting, cutting, creasing and perforating in two directions, and can slit-score greetings cards.

Heidelberg
Hall 1
Heidelberg will be release its new Varimatrix 82 CS die cutter (CS – cutting and stripping). Able to cut at rates up to 8,000 sheets per hour, the Varimatrix 82 CS suits the Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 for packaging printers. Heidelberg will also show the Dymatrix 106 Pro diecutter with a new chase changer. This speeds up the exchange of different cutting dies.

Horizon International
Hall 13, Stand D36
Horizon will have several guillotines in operation inline during its presentations of full booklet, digital print and flexible binding solutions.

Kama
Hall 2, Stand B32
The new ProCut 76 die cutter will be launched in Kama’s “Commercial Centre”. Claimed to be the world’s first flat-bed diecutter for sheets up to 760x600mm, it will be demonstrated with a hot foil stamping system and a universal chase for dies of all sizes. Applications include cutting, creasing, perforating, kiss-cutting, cold embossing, hot foil stamping, combined embossing and hot foil, and hologram stamping.

Lasermax Roll Systems
Hall 6, Stand C74
New at Drupa 2012 will be the Lasermax Roll Stack 2220 system, which includes the Cutter c22 and Stacker s20. It features dual rotary knives for variable strip cutting at speeds up to 450ft/min. The double strip cut is used to remove cleaning lines from many inkjet printers or to create documents with bleed edges. The system can operate inline or offline with digital printers.

Morgana Systems
Hall 8b, Stand A65
Morgana will demonstrate several bookletmakers and trimmers, including the new DocuMaster MFC booklet system, as well as business card cutters/slitters for short-run digital print applications.

Polar-Mohr
Hall 2, Stand A01
This year, Heidelberg is giving over Hall 2 for its partner companies, such as guillotine specialist Polar. The manufacturer will host its own 860m² stand for the first time. It will present 10 systems and eight standalone machines, with a focus on networking. The highlight will be three models of the new “N” high-speed cutters – the 56 NET, 66 NET and 80 ECO. Polar will also debut the new BC 330 three-knife trimmer.

Watkiss Automation
Hall 13, Stand B70
The UK-based manufacturer will demonstrate the Hydrocut 520 guillotine on its stand. The cutting kit is designed primarily for inplant and digital print applications, with a 52cm cutting width, full electronic light guarding, hydraulic operation, and keypad control with memory.

Folding and Folder-Gluing

Heidelberg
Hall 1
Heidelberg will showcase the new CCT machine control system (Compact Control Technology) with the Stahlfolder Ti 52 and the Stahlfolder Ti 36. This system makes both buckle plate folding machines more user friendly, and significantly reduces makeready times for each job, the company claims.

Horizon International
Hall 13, Stand D36
The new CRF-362 creaser folder will be introduced at Drupa 2012. This system can fold products without image cracking on both lighter and cover weight stocks. Up to 10 creases are possible on one sheet with up or down creasing possible in one pass.  

Kama
Hall 2, Stand B32
Kama will show the ProFold 74 folder gluer in conjunction with a pre-breaking device, cold glue application system and a long pressing belt. New applications for the ProFold 74 also include a creasing, cutting and perforating unit.

Lamina
Hall 12/Stand C25
This Swidish-based supplier of laminating/mounting and gluing machine will be launching a fully automatic Lamina Crash Lock gluer during the show. Lamina claims that its the most compact gluer on the market that can manage a variety of material including crash lock function. The machine will be in full production mode during Drupa. Besides the Crash Lock, a fully automatic non-stop gluing and folding machine for one piece or two piece boxes will also be on the stand. The machine works with two heavy duty vacuum controlled belt feeders which can be used to feed in one or two piece boxes.

MBO
Hall 06, Stand A39
MBO will introduce 10 new machines at Drupa 2012. These will include the K800-2 high-performance knife folder, with a top speed of 235m/minute and complete automation an option, and the T960 oblong folder, which takes sheets long edge first for 30% more output and the flexibility of a buckle folder.

Morgana Systems
Hall 8b, Stand A65
Morgana’s popular Digifold Pro folder will be demonstrated, and folders specially designed for the on-demand market, such as the DocuFold Pro and Major, will also be on the stand.

Laminating

Autobond
Hall 11, Stand A23
This British exhibitor will launch its new high-speed B1 laminator, the Mini 105 TPHS, at the German exhibition. This thermal laminator is capable of laminating on one or two sides in one pass, at a maximum speed of 120 metres per minute (10,000 B1 landscape sheets per hour). The company will also debut two inkjet spot UV machines – the Mini 36 SD TPM-36 SUV, a 360mm x 740mm thermal perfector laminator with PSA magnet lamination and inline inkjet spot UV machine, and the offline 52 SUV-SDF, a B2 portrait inkjet spot UV machine with a Heidelberg-Stahl suction drum feeder.

Lamina
Hall 12/Stand C25
This Swidish-based supplier of laminating/mounting and gluing machine will showcase Lamina FAS+, a fuly automatic high-speed sheet laminating/mounting machine. The machine is equipped with a high capacity rear edge top feeder that allows for loading pallets directly in to the unit for short stops due reloading. The other machine on the stand Lamina SA, a sheet to sheet semi-automatic laminating/mounting machine. It has an automatic suction cup feeder for bottom sheets and a hand fed operation for top sheets.

Mailing

Buhrs
Hall 14, Stand D41
Buhrs will launch its new 5000 System at Drupa 2012. However, the vendor was keeping quiet at the time of publication and as such no information or specifications had been released by the company yet.

Pitney Bowes
Hall 4, Stand C04
There will be plenty to see at the stand of the US-based mailing corporation. Many of the machines fit with the company’s White Paper Factory concept. The idea is that pre-printed stock can be completely replaced by printing every job on blank paper and white envelopes. Personalised transpromo messaging in a mobile phone bill will be printed in full colour using the IntelliJet 20. Both applications will be finished using the new Mailstream Wrapper, which wraps the printed document rather than using envelopes. Other exhibits will include the Rival Productivity Series, an inserter with closed-loop reprint and job changeover capabilities, and the Reliant Sorting Solution. P/I OfficeMail, Pitney Bowers’ hybrid mail solution featuring physical and digital mail delivery, will be demonstrated alongside software for geocoding, location intelligence, predictive analytics and CRM. The Connect+ franking machine and the Digital Envelope and Document Printer will be shown, as will the Mailstream Productivity Series 26K inserter.

Saddle-Stitching

Duplo International
Hall 13, Stand B53
Duplo recently launched the DBMi Saddle System for finishing a large variety of book formats including A4 landscape. Makeready is claimed to be just 60 seconds. The DBMi Saddle System allows automatic set-up of all book parameters.

Hohner
Hall 6, Stand B26
Hohner will launch its new saddle binder, the HSB 13000. The machine will replace the former HSB 10000. Fully automated and capable of 13,000 cycles per hour, the new device is equipped with a new drive technology managed by Hohner’s “Motion Control”, for full automation, including the stacker. Hohner will also exhibit its HSB 8000 saddlestitcher.

Muller Martini
Hall 14, Stand C21
Muller Martini isn’t elaborating on its stand exhibits, but has said that “new possibilities” for saddlestitching with inline inserts, for product diversity and for all print run sizes, will be demonstrated. The company will also debut a completely new inserting system for newspapers and mail shots with an “optimal price-performance ratio”.

Osako
Hall 13, Stand D10
Japanese manufacturer Osako will launch the new Tener Alpha saddlestitcher at Drupa 2012. It is a fully automatic system that builds on previous models’ high-speed production capabilities.

Miscellaneous

Baldwin Technology
Hall 16, Stand A23
In its first international trade show appearance since being bought out by investment firm Forsyth Capital, Baldwin will launch several upgrade and retrofit systems for its spray dampening technology, UV and LED UV curing, water management, cylinder cleaning and gluing equipment at its stand. These will include the EvenSpray dampening systems, providing a 50% faster valve speed and improved web distribution, and its UVedSF LED UV curing for sheetfed, flexo and digital printers, providing UV curing that cuts power consumption and emits no ozone. The company will also show its QuadCure-x solution for curing conventional UV inks with a 30% reduction in energy consumption. Baldwin’s WebGluer high-speed fold gluing and softening system will be shown with improvements in delivering a defined adhesive line with an exact start and end point for the glue line.

Duplo International
Hall 13, Stand B53
Duplo’s Ultra 200A coater, suitable for both digital and offset environments, will be on show. It is a UV flood coater that delivers a high gloss or matt finish to a range of both digital and offset papers. The Ultra 200A is operated by a keypad control and includes a double sheet detection system. It has a fully automatic cleaning process.

Gallus
Hall 2, Stand A45
Gallus will use the trade show to introduce a number of upgrades and options to the ICS 670 inline folding carton machine. The HiDef flexo printing system and a new gravure unit will be demonstrated with finishing processes such as rotary screen printing and cold foiling in a single pass, as well as the flying imprint option (a “spare” printing unit that allows promotional images or text to be changed without interrupting production) and a new quality control system with blank ejection.
 
Heidelberg
Hall 1
Heidelberg will show the DryStar delivery dryer with a new round-nozzle technology, which is now also available for the Speedmaster XL 75. It will also unveil a UV dryer that minimizes energy costs, the DryStar LE (low energy) UV, for commercial printers to enter the UV market. This energy-saving dryer is suitable for four- or five-colour commercial presses, with or without a coating.

Hohner
Hall 6, Stand B26
Hohner will demonstrate its Digi-Finisher 8 for finishing documents from either roll or sheet for digital printers, and also present its large range of small wire stitching machines – the Eco, Exact, Exact Plus and Orion IV.

Hunkeler
Hall 9, Stand C39
Hunkeler will have a presence on several stands. It will use a PEM 570 web cleaning unit on HP’s stand in Hall 4, and a VK 4212 disposal system with baling press on the Muller Martini stand in Hall 14. A VK 1005 disposal system with baling press will also be used on HP’s stand in Hall 4.

Morgana Systems
Hall 8b, Stand A65
Morgana’s CardXtra Plus will be a highlight of the company’s stand, showing creasing, slitting and cutting on a wide variety of stocks and sizes.

Watkiss Automation
Hall 13, Stand B70
Watkiss will be showing its wide portfolio of online and offline finishing systems, including the Watkiss DigiVAC, Watkiss Vario and Document Finishing System.