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From the beginning Bob Hegwood, founder of Commercial Communications, Inc. (CCI), believed digital printing technology was the way of the future. Always a forward-thinking company, the Hartland, Wisconsin, USA-based CCI mixed the earliest digital equipment with traditional lithography to service a diverse client base. Today, 66% of the 23-year-old company’s work is producing service, training and instructional manuals on digital printers for its manufacturing clients.
“Printing and storing high numbers of training and technical manuals can be costly, so many of our manufacturing clients are turning to our print-on-demand (POD) capabilities to print only the quantities they need,” said Steve Henck, vice president of production.  Steve Henck, VP of Production, CCI CCI invested in Océ continuous feed printers, including the VarioStream® 7400 CX Twin, and also served as a pilot site for Océ’s VarioStream 9210. In addition, CCI chose the Lasermax Roll Systems LX Perfect Bind with the Muller Martini SigmaBinder. LX Perfect Bind supplies book streams in multiple stock weights 3-up to the in-line perfect binder for POD applications such as short-run books, and can also slit and merge to create one-off books. “All of the sites I visited with LX lines had nothing but good things to say about the durability, ease of use, competitive prices and service and support of the equipment,” Henck said. Now Henck has good things to say himself. “This is the first time we’ve got into a roll fed system and we’re very happy with the investment. Our digital printers operate like a continuous web press. And, the durability of the LX equipment is phenomenal,” he reports. With the wide variety of work handled by the digital operation, Henck values the flexibility the LX Perfect Bind solution provides. The system can convert from in-line perfect binding to stacking unfinished output without moving equipment around. The stacks can then be transported to a hand-feed measuring station for the SigmaBinder or to a full shop of near-line binding equipment. With the optional LX530 Buffer, CCI is now able to run lightweight or coated stock they were unable to run on cut-sheet printers, allowing them to produce an even wider variety of jobs. The LX535 Slit Merge option offers additional possibilities. “We can now go to new customers where every single book is of a variable thickness because this is the only equipment that is capable of doing that efficiently,” Henck states. Overall, CCI is very pleased with their decision. “The LX solutions have opened us up to new markets that we could not compete in before, and the upgradeable options will allow CCI to stay on the leading edge in meeting our client’s needs in a constantly changing POD marketplace,” said Henck. For more information please visit www.lasermaxroll.com |
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