Which Booket Maker is Best for my Application?

Posted on - 4th July 2018

At The Finishing Point, we pride ourselves in being the Premier Partners of Duplo International and being able to offer their full range of Booklet Makers from the entry level AutoBookie Pro all the way to the more complex Duplo 350DBS. 

Booklet makers come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, from compact low volume desktop solutions to high capacity machinery. 

Often, the volume of work dictates the machinery required for the project and also whether the booklet is stitched or stapled.

Stitching's advantage is clear, as the vast majority of higher volume machinery use stitch heads rather than staples. This is due to the stronger bind that stitching offers over traditional staples, as well as higher running speeds, more versatility and better cost effectiveness. 

Although stitching holds the advantage, advances in stapling technology has made the strength of electronic stapling technology almost identical to heavy duty stitching. 

Booklet Makers: Digital Feeders or Collators?

Digital feeders are a variant of the traditional collator towers utilising vacuum feed technology to feed the materials through to the booklet makers. However, unlike a traditional collator tower which takes singular sheets from each of the feed trays to create a single booklet set, a digital feeder is able to take multiple sheets from a single feed tray to create the booklet set from an already collated output. The advantage of this method is the fact that you can virtually start production from the first delivered output from your digital print engine whereas, with a traditional lithographic output you need the entire job to be completed before booklet production can commence.

Collators offer high productivity speeds as they take only one sheet from each feed tray. A collator needs a complete set, as individual pages to be loaded prior to production. This is faster for the print engine but may cause issues in productivity for the booklet maker operator.

Which Booklet Maker Should I Choose?

The answer to this question is down to the application.

If you print at high volumes and using traditional methods, then a collator tower if the option for you.

If you are a short run on demand digital printer, then the decision should be a digital feeder.

If you'd like, or require, more information about our booklet makers, please get in touch with us today.