Ultimate Impostrip 2024.1 - Automation in overdrive
Ultimate Tech, leader in imposition, nesting and finishing automation software, and Bindwel, the leading book binding manufacturers in South Asia, are pleased to announce a new collaboration enabling automated book binding for digital book production.
Bindwel’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, India, produces cutting-edge bookbinding machines, catering to every post-press need—from signature gatherers to precision three-knife trimmers. As India’s digital book printing sector experiences unprecedented growth, Bindwel stands at the forefront, driving this evolution. Following the global debut of its Insta BOD solution at Drupa 2024 in Düsseldorf, the system is now undergoing successful test runs with India’s leading e-commerce Book-on-Demand (BOD) providers. Bindwel’s flagship short run solutions, such as the Freedom 2K and Trimit 30C SRT, have already earned widespread recognition across the country, especially in Inkjet printing of books.
Ultimate Tech enables finishing automation through Ultimate Impostrip® and Ultimate Bindery®, and in collaboration with Bindwel will offer support to their devices to bridge the gap between prepress and finishing.
With the increasing demand for shorter runs and quicker turnaround times, Ultimate Impostrip® provides lights out, hands free, true reliable automation. From imposition to true shape nesting, the generation of marks and the intelligence to dynamically place your print elements on the sheet optimally and automatically is our duty.
Ultimate Bindery® is a standalone software solution designed to fill the gap between prepress and finishing. Ultimate Bindery® can complete all the necessary parameters needed to automatically set up your finishing equipment. It allows to produce variable length products in different quantities, on the fly with no manual make-ready.
Pallippuram Sajith, the Managing Director of Bindwel says "we understand that the biggest challenge for new entrants in Digital and Short-Run/Book-on-Demand printing is learning how to efficiently run and integrate various equipment. Our discussions with Ultimate Bindery for JDF-based workflow management aim to simplify this. By enabling seamless communication across printing, finishing, binding, and trimming systems from different manufacturers, we are not just providing equipment but helping our customers automate their digital workflow – making their journey into short-run and on-demand production easier and more efficient."
“Ultimate Bindery® operates as a central location to validate that each job is built respecting the capabilities and constraints of the selected finishing equipment” says Julie Watson, Ultimate Tech CEO. “Now connecting with Bindwel’s automatic binding systems will bring more options to automated finishing possibilities and workflows.”
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