Two highlight features: Pre-gluing and front trim option
In the Hunkeler Starbook Sheetfolder, the individual signatures are folded into four-pagers, which are then spot-glued and gathered. These auxiliary glued book blocks are rotated by 90 degrees on a spider and then, thanks to the pre-gluing of the four-pagers as stable book blocks, travel spine-first through the automatic book block feed inline into the Vareo PRO.
Running 1,350 cycles per hour, the three-clamp perfect binder from Müller Martini together with its ideally matched InfiniTrim delivers another highlight. Book blocks can be prepared for the production of fold-out brochures on the Vareo PRO. The trimming robot now features a front trim option, allowing softcover products with cover flaps to be produced in one pass. At the Hunkeler Innovationdays, we won’t be producing any fold-out brochures as part of our standard demos, but I would be happy to show you how the trim works based on an untrimmed fold-out brochure and highlight the benefits of this solution in detail.
Three different demo products
Our live demos won’t focus on book-of-one-production, instead showcasing small runs of between 15 and 20 units per order. Besides two A5 products with different numbers of pages (48 and 64) and book thicknesses (3 and 4 mm), we will also produce an A4 notebook with 48 pages and a 3 mm book thickness. The Müller Martini
Connex workflow system is responsible for imposition and monitoring.
Some of you I met at drupa 2024, as we presented a similar solution, but without digital printing press and trimming robot. Now, we’re stepping up our game at the Hunkeler Innovationdays with the Jetfire 50 at the front and the InfiniTrim at the back, showcasing this compact all-in-one line for the first time ever. I look forward to giving you a live demonstration in Lucerne!
Yours,
Ronald Reddmann, Product Manager Softcover Systems, Müller Martini