The case study below describes a particularly challenging Seattle Bindery project. We hope you find it interesting and instructive. If you have questions about the equipment, techniques, or other details of the project, feel free to call us at 425-656-8210.

It’s fun to take on a job that utilizes a whole bunch of our capabilities, especially when the combination of those skills show off how we’re different from others in our market. So we were pleased when one of our favorite customers brought us this training manual, since it required die cut tabs, scoring, gluing, folding, collating, punching and, finally, red twin-loop Wire-O™. While the turnaround was a challenge—the original eighteen days were reduced to fourteen—we knew we’d make deadline since the job was a perfect fit for the set-up and flow of our operations.

The first part of the job to come in was the 8-up arched custom tabs on 28 x 40-inch sheets, which we put on our Bobst die cutter. When the front and back covers arrived, they were immediately sent to our letterpress department for scoring. We needed to make the back covers double-thick, so we scored, folded and glued them as a four page, and then sent both front and back covers to be punched. Seventy-six forms on ten 28 x 40-inch press sheets arrived and were also trimmed. All the elements—covers, forms, and tabs—were punched on our Kugler high speed autopunch and then collated on our Muller collator.

We were then ready for the Wire-O binding, but where was that Wire-O? Turns out delivery of the special red wire was the only hiccup in the entire project—it was a special order and took longer than expected. But minutes after it arrived the job was running on our STL-1000 inserter. The entire job was boxed up, 25 per box, and shipped to the customer. . .on deadline.

Each of these operations by themselves is pretty unremarkable, in terms of capability. What we think is impressive—though we may be a bit biased—is our ability to run a job through all the different processes in perfect, synchronized harmony. This turned out to be the ideal job to prove it.
 

Seattle  Bindery
6540 South Glacier Street, Suite 120
Seattle, WA 98188

Phone: 425-656-8210
Fax: 425-656-4400
miltvine@seattlebindery.com
www.seattlebindery.com

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