Rotherham-based online printer instantprint has invested almost £2 million in the UK’s first Muller Martini Prinova Digital stitching lines.
With the goal of improving efficiencies, the speed of the new stitcher allows instantprint to print books much faster than their existing stitchliners, from around 2,000 an hour to a 9,000. They’re also able to easily switch the way the stitcher is fed, meaning no matter which printer customers’ books are printed on, they now have more opportunities to speed up the turnaround time of delivery.
James Kinsella,instantprint Co-Founder, said:“The Muller Martinis are capable of being fed from any device in the factory making them very flexible. The key thing for us is that we do lots of jobs on lots of different materials, so job-to-job changeover is really important for us. We could feed the stitchers with reels and move from size-to-size automatically, and could also switch from reels to sections, to digital sheets.
“The team are currently working intensively on setting up the automated workflow and integrating the new stitchers with its internal systems, with the first machine being installed now, and the second following soon.”
