Who we are and what we do
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IBIS Customized Finishing Solutions
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Shortcut: IBIS Senior Management
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Shortcut:  IBIS
historic milestone events
Founded in 1999, IBIS Bindery Systems is a world-leading supplier
of high-speed digital book finishing systems. The IBIS Smart-binder
‘Plus HS’ can produce personalized, variable page-count
wire-stitched, cold-glued, or perfect bound books from a digitally-printed
web, or from cut sheets. It is used at print sites around the
world to produce personalized booklets for school examinations,
health care, financial, insurance, government, manuals and many
other applications. |
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Our IBIS engineers have many hundreds of man-years experience
in print finishing. We specialize in the integration of high-speed
booklet systems with continuous web digital printers, and in configuring
complete digital book finishing systems for turn-key operations
with a high degree of customization. We have over 180 IBIS Smart-binder
systems operating at customer locations worldwide.
Our products are backed up with first-class customer training
and support. We are proud of our long-standing and continuing
partnerships with all of the major continuous inkjet printer manufacturers,
and digital post-press suppliers. |
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focus has been on finishing solutions for high-speed CF (web) digital
printers, both off-line and in-line. Uniquely, we offer the ability
to produce both glued books and wire stitched (stapled) books from
the same machine.
We also have extensive experience of integrating different equipment
into complete customised systems. In this way we provide a one-stop
service for book finishing solutions.
All our products are backed by first-class customer training and
support.We are based approximately 30 miles (48 km) from central London
and close to Heathrow international airport.
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The IBIS Senior Management Team
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The IBIS senior management team and founding partners include three
Oxford and Cambridge engineering graduates. |
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IBIS Bindery Systems: Historic milestone events - from 0 to 1 billion
books
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2020 (Aug) |
IBIS
participate in the Napco 2020 'virtual' Ink Jet Summit |
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| 2019
(April) |
IBIS's first sale of the Smart-binder system to the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) |
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| 2018
(Sept) |
IBIS
launches the Smart-binder saddle-binder into the Korean market |
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| 2017
(Nov) |
IBIS
forms a new sales and service distribution partnership with Best Graphics
Inc, USA. Best Graphics will focus on IBIS 'Smart-binder' sales to the
Digital print market |
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| 2017
(May) |
IBIS
nominated for 'Best Case Study - Publishing' at Inkjet Summit 2017 |
PB-600R, PB-1200R, PB-2000J |
| 2015
(Dec) |
New
IBIS sheet-feeder SB-097 now allows in-line connected Smart-binders
to also be fed from a sheet pile feeder |
| 2015
(Oct) |
New
IBIS line up for in-line Perfect Binding (hot glue binding) - the Sprint-binder
PB-600R, Sprint-binder PB-1200R and the Sprint-binder PB-2000J |
| 2014
(Sept) |
IBIS
is awarded ‘top marks’ for exam booklet production, with around
30 Smart-binders producing stitched (or glued) and trimmed exam papers
at customer locations all around the world. |
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| 2014
(May) |
IBIS
and Friedheim International sign UK distribution and support deal |
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| 2014
(May) |
IBIS
celebrates 15 years of supplying high-end book finishing solutions for
digital print ! |
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| 2014
(March) |
IBIS
exhibits a Smart-binder SB-3 ‘Plus HS’ on its own stand
at IPEX in London. |
| 2013
(Oct) |
New
version ‘stretched’ Smart-binder (‘X’ model)
launched for tabloid size output, or two-up A5 portrait |
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| 2013
(Aug) |
IBIS
strengthens sales and support with new OEM partnerships |
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| 2013
(July) |
IBIS
launches a new higher-performance Smart-binder ‘PLUS HS’
for production of variable page-count, digitally printed booklets |
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| 2012
(Dec) |
More
than a billion booklets have been made on IBIS digital -saddle-stitchers
around the world |
| 2012
(Sept) |
IBIS
celebrates the shipment of the 100th Smart-binder to a firm in
Boston. IBIS continues to be the leading supplier of high-speed,
variable page-count booklet systems to leading U.S. firms such as
Principal Financial, Farmer's Insurance, Pearson, O'Neil Data Systems,
Excellus, R.R. Donnelley, Lifetouch, and many more |
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| 2012
(June) |
The
first IBIS system with automatic on the run
changeover between saddle-stitching and perfect binding is
installed at a customer in Rome, Italy in-line with an Océ JetStream
2200 printer at 150 metres/min web speed. |
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| 2012
(May) |
Drupa
, Germany: IBIS launches the higher performance Smart-binder
‘Plus’ saddle stitcher and the new 1,500 books/hour Sprintbinder
4-clamp perfect binder. |
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| 2011
(May) |
IBIS
is granted a patent for its unique ISG saddle cold-glue system as used
on the Smart-binder |
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| 2009
(June) |
IBIS
celebrates its 10th birthday with
an Open House and social events for staff and customers |
| 2006
(May) |
IPEX,
UK : Xerox and Delphax show the Smartbinder
SB-4 which can produce saddle-stitched, ISG glued and perfect-bound
books all in one system. |
| 2006
(July) |
Toppan
Forms, Tokyo places IBIS's largest-ever single order for
multiple Smart-binder SB-3 systems |
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| 2004
(May) |
The
new IBIS Smart-binder SB-3 digital
saddle-stitcher is launched on the Océ,
Kern & Xerox stands, featuring IBIS’s patented Individual
Sheet Gluing (ISG) binding system. |
| 2003
(June) |
Following
worldwide success with 40 Digi-stitchers installed with Oce printers
worldwide, IBIS opens up sales channels to other printer manufacturers
in addition to Océ. These include IBM
and Xerox. |
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| 2003
(April) |
RR
Donnelleys installs first Digistitcher in the USA in-line
with Océ web printer |
| 2001
(Sept) |
IBIS
moves into its new headquarters in High Wycombe
UK. |
| 2000
(May) |
Drupa,
Germany: The Digi-stitcher DST2 is launched to the world
market at drupa in Düsseldorf. |
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| 2000
(April) |
The
first IBIS 'Digi-stitcher' (the
world’s first high speed in-line digital saddle-stitcher) is installed
at The Stationery Office, London, to make stitched documents in-line
with an Océ high speed web printer. This system produces ‘The
London Gazette’ and other documents for the UK government. |
| 1999
(Oct) |
IBIS
signup to an exclusive sales contract agreed with Océ
Printing Systems, Munich. |
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| 1999
(May) |
John Cracknell, Mark Firth and Malcolm Allitt form IBIS
Integrated Bindery Systems. The new IBIS
engineering team design its first in-line digital-finishing
product. |
