RICHFIELD ADDS PRODUCTIVITY WITH MORGANA BOOKLET MAKER

Richfield Print Management, Thatcham, Berkshire, has added a Morgana Systems BM4035 booklet maker, complete with FM module, and hand feed delivery tray. The unit was supplied to Richfield by Morgana Systems dealer, Berkshire based Southern Print Finishing Services.

Morgana Systems BM4000 suite of booklet makers, introduced at The Print Show last year, provide the solution for work with low to mid volume digital production printers. The BM4035 delivers booklets of exceptional quality, and is able to feed long printed sheets to produce a wide variety of applications, including A4 landscape booklets, which are becoming increasingly popular with customers.

“The system replaces the handwork approach that we had previously taken,” said Steve Basterfield, Managing Director of Richfield Print Management. “The numbers of A4 booklets being required by customers had just grown to the point where some automation was definitely needed, and Morgana were there to help us. It’s a very impressive machine.

“The new booklet maker just glides through the work — eating up work in minutes that might have taken us hours to produce by hand with an extended stapler.

“The machine is so easy to set up, which is important when you have inexperienced operators, and the SquareBack finish is a great improvement for the finished document — something that our customers have already commented positively on. The paperback book appearance means that there is a spine that can be printed on, should customers need to do that.

that we can handle them when customer demand requires us to.”

Morgana Systems Bm4000

The Morgana Systems BM4000 series of booklet makers produce consistently high quality booklets in a wide range of sizes and media types. The basic configuration, with hand feed capability, enables users to make booklets in an offline mode, meaning that one binder can service multiple print engines.

BM4035 can produce corner stapled documents in portrait A4, as well as edge stapled documents in portrait, plus the popular landscape A4, with up to 140-page booklet capacity. The unit can also support long sheets of up to 660mm, without the Creasing and Side slitting module (CST) or 620mm with CST.

The unit’s heavy duty staple mechanism has been designed for durability, and is maintenance free thanks to a patented solution that eliminates periodic service intervals. Users are able to adjust both the staple and fold positions though the easy initial set-up. The BM4000 series machines have a patented “set positioning mechanism” that allows the operator to adjust the staple position and the direction of travel from the intuitive user interface.

Operators can now also compensate for the skew caused when feeding long sheets with a simple adjustment in the user interface, on the fly. Richfield Print Management can now produce SquareFold booklets in sizes from A6 to A4 Landscape, or in the larger A4-square-format 297 x 297mm.

The optional Finishing Module (FM) includes the new face trimmer and SquareFold mechanism in a single unit. The technology is based on the successful trimmer and SquareFold modules, with added support for longer sheets, while reducing overall size of the package.

This unit was sold through Mike Swain at Southern Print Finishing Services. Southern Print Finishing Services specialises in supplying, installing, servicing, and maintaining print finishing equipment. With three locations based in the south of England, the team is never far away. Contact: 0118 9793211 or see the web site at www.spfs.co.uk

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