Best Bookletmaker option

[amccolor]

Hi all,

We are a traditional litho printer with 40" presses, and we are looking to add a Xerox 800/1000 digital press in the near future. We print a lot of booklets with litho currently but buy out all of our finishing from a local bindery. Due to the shorter run / quicker turn nature of digital printing, we are looking to add a bookletmaker along with the digital press.

We have the option of adding the inline bookletmaker option at a very economical cost (about $125 per month), but I really don't like the fact that it doesn't score and the booklets all come out curvy and don't lay flat. We print all litho right now so we are used to seeing booklets created from a stitcher which lay flat. BTW...This is the same finisher/bookletmaker as on the back of the Xerox 700. The squarefold attachment is interesting but comes at a very high cost (extra $300 per month). Another limitation I see with the inline bookletmaker option is that we could only do 8.5x11 booklets. For booklets smaller than letter size, we would be running multiple up on 12x18 to save on click costs and therefore the stitching would frequently be in a different direction.

The booklets we will be doing will range from 8 to 64 pages and primarily being printed on coated stocks (100gsm to about 300gsm). They will frequently have mixed weight stocks such as 80#Gloss Book on the inside and 100#Gloss Cover as the cover. We want a quick setup and the flexibility to do different size booklets. The average run length will be about 500 booklets (ranging from 100 to about 1,000 max).

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Anton Cheng
anton@amc-color.com

[geoman]

There are some obvious limitation with the booklet maker available on the 800/1000. It's essentially the one used on the X700. My suggestion at this early stage would be to look the the Plockmatic30Pro, else stuff from Horizon and Duplo is very good.

Plockmatic link: http://www.plockmatic.com/products/o...em/xerox/pro30

[amccolor]

There are some obvious limitation with the booklet maker available on the 800/1000. It's essentially the one used on the X700. My suggestion at this early stage would be to look the the Plockmatic30Pro, else stuff from Horizon and Duplo is very good.

Plockmatic link: Systems and Products: Plockmatic International AB

Thank you Geoman. I have heard of the Plockmatic30Pro. How is it better than the standard Xerox one?

[Craig]

I will also add that if you go off line you may be able to bring some of your offset work back in house.