Batley-based AB Print Group has invested in a new Watkiss PowerSquare 224 booklet making system to finish work from an assortment of different printers.
The PowerSquare 224 system combines a high capacity PSF sheet feeder with the PowerSquare booklet maker to produce SquareBack books up to 224 pages thick. The PSF feeds up to 10,800 sheets per hour and has two feeders – one with 500 mm capacity, plus a 140 mm cover feeder. AB Print also chose the PBS high capacity book stacker, which delivers huge efficiency gains by allowing the PowerSquare to run, unattended, for extended periods.
Director Richard Walmsley said, ‘We have been using the hand-fed version of the PowerSquare for three years and it’s a cracking bit of kit. So when we were looking for increased automation, we naturally looked to Watkiss – I am determined to buy the best on the market that we can afford. Everything has to satisfy two criteria – deliver brilliant quality and improve our automation and productivity.’
The company runs a diverse range of presses including two five colour Komori Lithrones, a NexPress 2500 and a Xerox Color 800. Its finishing capabilities include cutting, creasing, folding and stitching, as well as digital finishing including lamination and wiro-binding, AB Print Group can hot foil, emboss, gum, spot UV, even create scratch’n’sniff and silver/gold latex scratchcards, all in-house.
AB Print Group is a multi-disciplined business that provides litho printing, digital printing, screen printing and print finishing, working with both agencies and direct clients to produce anything and everything from short-run digital outputs, through prestigious, long run brochures to large format display materials and special substrate jobs.
