May 03, 2012
Freedom to Finish: Xerox Takes Time and Labour Out of Booklet Production
DÜSSELDORF, Germany, May 3, 2012 – Professional-looking
books, manuals and booklets are popular and profitable applications but producing them can be challenging. With today’s short-run requirements, finishing is often a major obstacle in delivering timely materials.
Xerox’s new automatic finishing solution eliminates bottlenecks often associated with in-line and off-line booklet production – allowing printers to complete more jobs faster.
Debuting here this week at drupa 2012, the IntegratedPLUS Finishing Solution for Booklets offers the industry’s first off-line automation by combining the efficiency of in-line with the flexibility of off-line into one device.
A new Dual Mode Feeder, available for the first time, allows an in-line finisher traditionally dedicated to a single digital print system to accept and handle printed output from multiple presses when operated in off-line mode.
For example, applications printed on a
Xerox Colour 1000 Press could be wheeled on a stack cart to the Dual Mode Feeder attached to the new Xerox iGen™ 150 Press for booklet making. The operator simply scans a bar-coded banner sheet before connecting the stack cart into the feeder. The bar code instructs the booklet maker to set itself up automatically and the process is completed without requiring skilled operator intervention. The iGen 150 can also print another job to its own stack cart simultaneously.
Other features of IntegratedPLUS Finishing Solution include:
- Automation to reduce costs – a touchless workflow in prepress operations boosts uptime by eliminating the need for manual prepress and finisher setup – booklet jobs are preflighted and imposed according to the requirements of each unique job, and the finishing device automatically knows how they should be stitched and folded. Removing these manual steps reduces human error during prepress or off-line finishing processes and accelerates throughput.
- Open access – multiple print engines can take advantage of a single booklet maker, whether in-line or off-line, so operators can print one job, such as postcards, while a stack cart is wheeled to a finisher for creating booklets. This means print devices are used at their full potential, increasing overall productivity, and booklet makers can be used by all printers in the shop, optimising asset utilisation.
Availability
Xerox’s IntegratedPLUS Finishing Solution for Booklets will be available later this year.
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About Xerox U.K.
Xerox U.K. is the U.K. operation of Xerox. With sales approaching $23 billion, Xerox is the world’s leading enterprise for
business process and
document management. Its technology, expertise and
services enable workplaces – from small businesses to large global enterprises – to simplify the way work gets done so they operate more effectively and focus more on what matters most: their
real business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., Xerox offers
business process outsourcing and
IT outsourcing services, including data processing,
healthcare solutions,
HR benefits management,
finance support,
transportation solutions, and
customer relationship management services for commercial and government organisations worldwide. The company also provides extensive leading-edge
document technology, services,
software and
genuine Xerox supplies for
graphic communication and
office printing environments of any size. The 140,000 people of Xerox serve clients in more than 160 countries.
Xerox also has manufacturing and logistics operations in Ireland, the U.K. and the Netherlands, and a research and development facility – Xerox Research Centre Europe – in Grenoble, France.
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