All You Need To Know About Precision Engineering in Print Finishing To transform sheets printed and materials cut into completed, durable, and aestheticallydesigned products, specialized accuracy equipment is needed. This equipment controls all aspects of accuracy, whether you are creating durable book covers, creating a custom photo book, creating complex retail packaging, or applying a protective lamination.
Automated Binding and Case Creation In a professional and higher-volume book production setting, automation is crucial. The Automatic Case Making Machine is a highly-technical machine that can take the material (spine board, two side boards and the cover substrate paper, cloth, or vinyl material) and make it a finished rigid hard book cover (case). This machine offers continuous feed, precise glue application, and precise edge turning with accuracy to produce the same quality of a hard cover book cover when producing thousands of cases, far more productively than manual or semiautomatic methods.
Similarly, the Photobook Making Machine is specifically designed to unique needs of producing digitally printed photo albums. Unlike a standard book binding, photobooks commonly need "lay-flat" technology that allows two pages facing each other to lay fully flat with neither gutter visible between the two pages. This machine is able to accomplish this using a specialized but commonly a heat activated adhesive and a specialized pressing method using thick, photographic paper.
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Packaging and Box Fabrication Automation plays a central role in the packaging industry in terms of speed and complexity of output. The Automatic Box Making Machine, for example, is an integrated process that receives the pre-cut card or paperboard blanks and converts them into 3-dimensional boxes. The machine automatically feeds the flat blanks, applies adhesive, scores and/or folds the blank material along the score lines, and presses the seams to form the final style of the box. This degree of automation is critical in maintaining a consistent supply of high-volume retail packaging, shipping cartons, and luxury style boxes.
The Box Cutting Machine works in conjunction with the automatic box machine process to accomplish the initial precision forming of the carton packing material. Traditional box cutting machines utilized steel-rule dies; however, in more recent machinery, box cutting is commonly accomplished using digital cutting tables with oscillating or fixed blades.
Surface Enhancement and Final Finishing To safeguard and enhance printed products, a lamination process is often used. The Roll Laminating Machine runs large rolls of plastic film (thermal and adhesive) as a method for continually covering large amounts of print. The roll machine is a very productive solution for web-fed and/or high-volume sheet jobs needing continuous lamination (usually with a consistent finish that will protect and enhance the appearance, that can be finished gloss, matte or some type of texture) for paper, card, or in some cases, flexible packaging materials. Finally, the often overlooked but very important piece of equipment is called the Corner Cutting Machine (also called a corner rounder). The Corner Cutting Machine can cut sharp, 90-degree corners off stacks of paper, cardboard or plastic quickly and uniformly. This simple piece of equipment is very important to have as part of the finishing of documents, business cards, photo albums and rigid inserts into packaging, offering durability improvements (as rounded corners are less likely to dog ear), safety (no sharp corners) and overall improvement in appearance.
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