Morgana launches entry level PUR binder

According to managing director Quen Baum, it will give small businesses the chance to offer PUR bound books cost effectively for the first time.

He said: “More and more people are accepting that PUR is the correct way to bind digital documents, particularly for photobooks.

The machine is scheduled to be available in Australia early next year through Ferrostaal, with general manager for digital finishing Andy Coopers stating that it would come in at around the $85,000 mark.

“It will be suitable for all the larger-end digital customers, basically anyone that is looking to do perfect binding so we might find a few of the binderies wanting to use it for their short-run work.”

Baum added that it can be used to bind even very small quantities of books.

“Larger machines need to run for a couple of hours, otherwise you end up wasting a lot of glue. But the 300 is a closed system, once you put the glue in you don’t see it again,” he said.

“It operates exactly as a hot-melt binder. It has a nozzle system which only opens when the book is there, so if you want to bind five books in a day then leave it on standby you can. At the end of the day it needs ten minutes cleaning and the same again the following morning.”

Although the machine has a running speed of 200 cycles per hour, Baum said that many of the customers using the machine could be binding 200 books a day or less.

This article originally appeared at printweek.com

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