Integrated Bindery Systems
using the IBIS Smart-binder
The Smart-binder is frequently used to produce news bulletins for distribution at regular intervals.
Smart-binders are used for news bulletin production for the following reasons:
Bulletins, such as those handed out to a church congregation every Sunday, must be printed, finished and distributed very quickly after the print files are created. This speed requirement ideally suits digital printing in combination with an in-line, or near line IBIS Smart-binder to convert printed sheets into finished booklets.
Examples of news bulletins produced by the IBIS Smartbinder
Because bulletins must often be produced to a certain time deadline, it is important that the equipment producing these can run reliably around the clock with minimum downtime for repair or maintenance. The Smart-binder ideally suits this type of production requirement.
Although production volumes may be high, jobs may need to change frequently. The Smart-binder allows the number of pages to change between one job and the next without stopping, under bar-code control.
IBIS Smart-binder 'Plus HS'
View videos of the Smart‑binder system in operation
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This customer has installed 9 Smart-binders over the last 10 years at different locations throughout the USA in order to produce weekly 8 1/2 x 11" Church Bulletins. These machines are each fed from a Tecnau roll unwinder and web cutter. Some of these SBs include dynamic perforation to allow for sheet tear-out.
View a video of the Smart-binder fed from a Tecnau/Lasermax unwinder and web-cutter producing church bulletins
During the last year Trinity have installed multiple Smart-binders at different sites in the USA to produce Church Bulletins. Some of these machines were supplied by IBIS/Best Graphics as 'used/refurbished'
Bon Venture installed one IBIS Smart-binder in 2019 to produce Church Bulletins. This machine is fed from a Tecnau roll unwinder and web cutter.