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Horizon's SPF-200L (L for Landscape) can do starting sheet sizes of up to 14"W x 24"L with a finished size up to 14"W x 12"L. http://www.sdmc.com/product_stand/spf-200l-landscape-bookletmaker/ You can hand feed it or add a programmable pile feeder like the Horizon HOF-400.

There are so many Horizon proprietary icons on the operator screen, you really would learn more about it all if you had an operators manual. Maybe you can download a copy from the link below if you haven't already. https://www.scribd.com/document/276944469/BQ270-Operator-manual

Yep, I think you are going to need a suction feed collator for the stock you mentioned. Tower models will work fine with typical paper stocks. Since you already mentioned Horizon, the VAC-1000 and VAC-600 series are solid machines.

I'm sure there are small machines out there for sharpening cutter knives as I've heard of knife sharpening services working out of their vans on location. The only cutter knife machines I've seen in person are 20 plus feet long and look like machine shop equipment. They have to be heavy and...

Is your existing knife high speed steel? If not, just stepping up to high speed steel is a huge improvement. The reason I bring it up is I have known some customers to get a standard steel knife on price and it loses it's edge in half the time of high speed steel. Of course, carbide holds its...

You'll more than likely have to move away from a perfect binder with traditional EVA glue and get a perfect binder that is made to apply PUR adhesive. Do a search for "PUR vs EVA binding" and read up on how PUR is superior for use with glossy stocks, especially glossy stocks printed on digital...

As you know, the Tricreaser uses a polymer type ring that does the creasing with a female bottom "collar" made of steel. With a fresh polymer insert the Tricreaser does a very good job. The polymer insert does wear in time and has to be replaced when the crease quality diminishes. This may be...

Good point on the machine that prints the cards. Occasionally I get service calls for an un-square cutter and the problem will be un-square print or print that doesn't stay registered from sheet to sheet. This is very frustrating for a new cutter operator to learn how to deal with.

For the Chinese branded cutters I've seen here in the US, when they have a part fail it is near impossible to get a replacement part. That's only one reason the company I work for doesn't sell them. The other reason is we sell machinery that is known in the print world by manufacturers that...

I haven't kept up with the competitors of that type of creasing device. I do know that Rosback has a similar product now called TrueScore, but I'm not sure if they offer it for any machines except their own. While I have seen the TriCreasers in action, I have yet to see Rosback's version in...

I can't speak for the Duplo. I've seen them, but I haven't operated them. Those two Challenge machines you are interested in are good machines but they go past your max budget. The manual backgauge Challenge 305 is just shy of $27K MSRP and the programmable backgauge 305TC has a MSRP near...

For a stand alone auto feed machine? I have a lot of hands on experience with Morgana who offers several. Creasers Horizon makes a great product, but this machine is new to the USA so I don't have experience with it yet. CRA-36 Auto-Creaser - Standard Duplicating Machines Corporation I don't...

The Fujipla ALM3220 sure seems to be a favorite of customers of mine. Auto-feeding, auto cutting, and exit slitting. It's pretty dang versatile. :cool:

With a cooking style thermometer you have to dunk it in the glue or hold it on the drum, right? Believe it or not, Horizon uses a "cooking" style thermometer mounted in the glue tank of the BQ270 perfect binders. It is a dial type, not digital. Any thermometer that is low end like a common...

I assume you are checking temps with an IR sensor "gun" something like this one. HDE Temperature Gun Infrared Thermometer w/ Laser Sight: Science Lab Digital Thermometers: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific Aiming it directly at the glue drum or the glue pot in different areas will show...

Another thing to check on the BQ-270 is for a sheet metal support on the lower front clamp of the carriage clamp. It is made somewhat like a piece of angle iron, but it is made of thin steel. It's maybe 3/8" in height and the full length of the front of the carriage clamp. It is held on by...

white rabbit, did you get your BQ260 sorted out yet?

I know I'm very late to your question and you probably figured it out by now. Doesn't the BB3000 have a two speed selection for the carriage to change the notching "pitch" when cutting the book spine? Maybe that control or it's circuit has gone haywire.

Most of the print shops I visit have moved away from regular collating towers. However, some collating towers can be programmed as feeders, so the collating tower is somewhat reinvented. Feeding from something like that Horizon HOF-400 with the CF-400 cover feeder attached to an...

I'm new here, first post, but I've been in the industry since '87. Hence the name. The matrix creasing on the cylinder press is the right direction. You just need something automated. The Horizon CRF-362 that markhunt suggests would be a great choice as I have always been impressed with...