Hi, I’m Julie Watson CEO of Ultimate Tech and I am Katelyn Pinch, Partner Manager at Standard Finishing Systems and we are here at Printing United a really exciting show to showcase this collaboration that we have done with Mr Zest a magazine with games and recipes the entire family will love.
But how do we make this?
First of all this was printed on a Canon ProStream and the files were prepared by Ultimate Impostrip including the dynamic barcoding for tracking purposes. And why don’t you tell us a little bit about this wonderful equipment that helps automate these booklets.
O.k. Julie, so at Printing United we are running the Mr. Zest booklet on a Horizon Stitchliner Mark V, we are using a Hunkeler Un-winder and rotary cutter to feed the roll-fed job into the Stitchliner which than saddle-stitches the booklet.
For Automated set-up we had Ultimate add a 2D barcode so that we can do job-tracking down to the page-level and also pull the same job setttings from memory to automatically set up the solution.
That’s wonderful. It’s so easy now to automate end-to-end and it’s so important because all the customers tell us they have a really hard time recruiting talented staff, therefore automation is really the tool. As well, technology as we know, attracts the younger generation. So if we want to bring a younger generation into our industry, this is really important.
So the time to invest was maybe 10 years ago, but today is the best next time, so come join us at Printing United and take a look at this equipment.