Remove "bottleneck"

Regardless of whether we like it or not, we all have to admit that digital printing is on the rise and it will gradually become an indispensable and important constituent force in the printing market, but its growth will be constrained to a great extent by post-press processing. It is a digital short-run on-demand printing market. Of course, the reasons are many. First, digital printing uses bright light and its toner or ink color layer is thicker, which adds a lot of difficulties to post-press processing. Easily stained, dirty, or trivial, paper breaks caused by folding are more serious problems, especially the printing system using toner coloring, there must be a heating process, it is easy to dry the moisture in the paper, and fold It is also often necessary to fold the texture of the paper across the page, all of which can easily cause the paper to break. This is why many folding machines are equipped with an indenter. Another aspect that blocks printing is speed mismatch. In particular, today's digital presses are getting faster and faster, and post-press processing equipment is often unable to keep up with its progress. However, there are also some solutions. For example, the Duplo System 4000 off-line bookmaker can complete 4,200 bookmaking tasks per hour. It can also automatically trim the edges when converting A4 mid-size papers into A5 size. It is the fastest on the market today. Offline print processing equipment. In terms of on-line processing equipment, the Digi-Stitch System 2000 saddle stitching device produced by the Integrated Binding System is the fastest product. It can complete 8,220 copies per hour, and it can be used with the Océ DemandStream 8000 press. Number of books. The third problem is that the various parameters of each type of digital printing equipment are related to each other and are incompatible with each other. In order to solve this problem, the Digital Color Postpress Automation Consortium, recently launched by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the United States, aims to establish a common set of industry standards that enable manufacturers to Ability to coordinate work. Participants include: ACCO, Duplo, Mathias Bauerle, IBM Printing Systems, Indigo, Heidelberg, NexPress, Plockmatic, Saturn Digital, Xeikon, and Ricoh. Digital printers are also establishing a corresponding partnership to solve the financial problem. The forerunner in this respect is the first reasoning company, which has signed agreements with many manufacturers. Its Time Product documentation product at Drupa is representative of this. This combination of Ricoh, Horizon International, Standard Finishing Systems, and Inspectron's hardware and software is a one-of-a-kind product that shows how different machines work together through Ricoh DigiFinish to print and assemble very personalised printed products. During the work, all the processes pass the scan and press the finished product requirements, set the parameters of the relevant processes needed for the arrangement, including the style, size, lock line, folding position, trimming parameters, etc. The sequential operation of the sheet-fed mode. The entire work began to be fed by the Standard DocuFeed 150 Shengshu bucket, one by one to the downstream process for operation. The Horizon VAC-100DF vacuum pager is responsible for paging and feeding color covers or inserts. Inspectron's digital camera unit is responsible for spot checks to monitor the normal operation of the process, and the other to track finished products to ensure consistency of all finished products. In drupa, Ricoh also exhibited an on-demand stapler, the Book Factory. It mainly focuses on the short-run printing market. It can produce a 300-page book with colored covers per minute, including digital printing, back-pressing, brush hot melt, upper cover and three-side cut books. All processes. Another Book Shop is designed for bookstores and is a book that can be produced. It is used with Ribler's RCI binding machine, and the work ready time is essentially zero. The book pages produced are extremely flat. Then there is a bookbinding machine used with onDemand Machinery crusts and Flesher's computer controlled Premiere gilded printers. It is a book every three minutes, and the total cost of digital printing and hardcover packaging does not exceed 3 US dollars. In addition to Ricoh, companies such as IBM Printing Systems, Oce, and Xeikon have produced machines that can be used in conjunction with postpress equipment such as CP Bourg, Horizon, and Hunkeler. One of the most worth mentioning is Aprion, its BookNet stapler, which takes only 10 minutes to produce a 600-page book with color seals! According to predictions by the American Association of Publishers, by 2005, the value of this e-book market will reach US$2.3 billion. The exception is that Kolbus and Muller Martini have no related products yet, although they say they are watching this market. Heidelberg entered the market with its compact and flexible Ti40 fenced folder. In addition, it also launched an offline Stitchexpert pager for 4,000 sets per hour and a semi-automatic Bindexpert stapler capable of producing 120 to 150 books per hour. At Drupa, Wohlenberg also exhibited its similar product, QuichBinder. It is equipped with the company's advanced cutting machine Digi-Cut, cutting 40 knives per minute, can be connected online or offline via CIP3. Also notable is the Bielomatik company. It not only introduced a “precision die-cutting and gluing technology” called Bielobind without the use of wire or plastic comb brush, but also introduced a Bookmaster 360 gutter system that can handle soft and hardcover books. Yes, it can be used to complete a series of processes such as liquid dispersion cold gluing, sticking back, upper plugging, upper case, heat sealing, rolling round, wrapping and so on. Other books that are suitable for on-demand bookbinding are the British Book-in-Hand. Its Doubleback system can do binding, capping, trimming, etc., producing 200 copies per hour and is currently in the preproduction stage. Then there is Short Run Solutin, the founder of the binding work, Profinish. The SRS system includes a fully automatic three-sided cutter, a book cover machine, and an upper shell work line. All processes are controlled by a central control system and can be fully automated. Although the product is still in its infancy, it has the ability to complete ten sets of books and half-minute replacement of live jobs (from square to round) per minute, which completely exceeds the requirements of general post-press processing and is very useful for short-run digital printers. Attractive.