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Originally Posted by lkr
OK, I'll be more specific.
We need a booklet maker that will collate up to 20 sheets, able to bind booklets from 4x6 up to 8.5x11 finished size, with face trimming. We need it to be able to handle digital and offset origin sheets. We need it to be able to handle up to 100lb. cover stock for the covers (scoring, preferably with a square back option). Our booklet orders range between 100 and 5000, but the average is probably 500 to 1000.
Is that enough information?
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We use the high end Duplo vacuum collators in a system 5000 configuration and they are extremely good. Expensive, but good. The DBM-120 is the entry level Duplo bookletmaker and you can connect that on line to a face trimmer. I've never used a Horizon system, but they have a good reputation. Watkiss also make various collator / bookletmaker combinations. They're a bit cheaper and more compact if space is an issue. We liked Duplo & Horizon better when we are evaluating options, but Watkiss have been around for a long time, so must be making customers happy. Nagel also make booklet makers that can be integrated with collators (Uchida??) and you can also get a face trimmer I think. Nagel are very much "entry level" machines, but good quality IMO (we keep one for odds and ends and it just keeps on ticking). There's a couple of other manufacturers, but those are the main ones I think. Duplo and Horizon are the only ones with options for 3-knife trimmers, but not at the level of machine you are looking at.
Hope that helps.
Also (I keep on thinking of more!) Bourg make booklet makers, but they seem about as popular as having teeth pulled. Don't know why, maybe just a country specific thing. Final one; Plockmatic make entry level booklet makers as do a company called KAS (I've no experience of either).
