Technical equipment

Your full-service provider for printing and binding

Here you can get an overview of our technical equipment. Depending on the equipment and format combinations, there may be deviations from the specified formats and options. We will be happy to advise you on our options.

Prepress

We check all incoming print data in our pre-press department. We set high quality and process standards to ensure that your data is printed correctly and your book content meets your expectations. We support the ISOCoatedV2 and V3 printing standards and regularly check our systems for color and output consistency. We can show you the print result in advance with binding proofs.

The data is delivered to the presses quickly and accurately using automated workflows. With us, neither quality nor time is lost and we are working on further processes to reduce your workload.

Our features:

Digital printing

In digital printing, we can offer a wide range of products and services that meet special requirements: short runs, high availability, a wide variety of personalizations or series productions (backlists, manuals, operating instructions). You don’t have to do without the quality you’re used to, as we print digitally but bind with our industrial processing. Our new production lines, which enable thread-sewn and perfect-bound book blocks in short runs for brochures and commemorative volumes, are of particular importance.

Our technical equipment is state-of-the-art in Germany and Europe. We print with a high-speed inkjet system and process the printed paper rolls directly into finished book blocks. For this purpose, we have a plow folder with a perfect bound block delivery and a Universe Web book sewing machine from Aster/Meccanotecnica.

Our features:

Offset printing

Due to our specialization in the book market, we have two printing presses that are responsible for the content of the books. A new 4-color system in 106×75 format with perfecting device and the latest measuring and plate technology ensures the most efficient and fastest production of one- and two-color titles currently available in this sector. With a further 5-color system incl. Lackwerk, we can offer special productions with special colors and special finishing requirements. We print our covers and envelopes as well as special features using a small printing system in half format 74×54. All systems receive their jobs and print information via the PRINECT interface and are regularly checked and maintained by the machine manufacturer.

Our features:

Bookbindery

In our bookbindery, we have a variety of machines to process the printed sheets and book blocks. A large folding and thread sewing machine park takes care of the processing of the printed offset sheets, the signatures are collated and, for example, the sheets are printed. processed into a book block by thread stitching. We also produce our covers for the festive volumes in-house and can carry out finishing work such as laminating and embossing ourselves. In finishing, the book blocks, whether provided digitally or conventionally, are provided with covers on the perfect binders or prepared for hanging on the book lines. Two book lines for hardcover volumes and two perfect binders for brochures ensure a high level of production reliability and production diversity. As a traditional bookbinder, our capacity is very large and so we are also available to other print shops with our bookbinding services.

Our features:

Print

min. Bogenformat
Breite x Länge
max. Bogenformat
Breite x Länge
Offset
Speedmaster XL 106-5 + coating340 x 480 mm750 x 1060 mm
Speedmaster XL 106-4-P
Color: 1/1, 2/2, 4/0
410 x 480 mm730 x 1050 mm
Speedmaster 74-5+coating
Color: 1/1, 2/2, 4/0
210 x 280 mm530 x 740 mm
min. Bogenformat
Breite x Länge
max. Bogenformat
Breite x Länge
Digital printing
Web Press T240HD
Color: 1/1, 4/4
320 mm roll width560 mm roll width
ImagePress C8000182 x 182 mm 330 x 487 mm
VarioPrint 6320203 x 203 mm305 x 500 mm
min. Buchblock-format
Breite x Länge
max. Buchblock-format
Breite x Länge
Digital print processing
auxiliary glued book block
Plow rebate + star wheel
100 x 150 mm255 x 382 mm
thread-sewn book block
Universe Web
100 x 150 mm255 x 400 mm
perfect bound brochure with hotmelt
Quickbinder
105 x 110 x 20 mm308 x 420 x 70 mm

Bookbindery

min. format
width x length
max. format
width x length
Cutting, folding, pre-aligning
Cutting (various) 95 x 95 mm1220 x 1620 mm
Folding (STAHL + MBO)140 x 150 mm1420 x 2005 mm
Endpaper gluing (Hunkeler)120 x 100 mm 360 x 460 mm
Gathering, thread stitching, binding
Collating (Muller Martini)100 x 125 mm360 x 460 mm
Thread stitching (Muller Martini, Aster)75 x 150 mm 520 x 520 mm
Perfect-bound and thread-sewn brochures
Adhesive binder (Kolbus)100 x 125 x 3 mm 320 x 380 x 3 mm
perfect bound and thread sewn volumes
Ceiling production (Kolbus)140 x 105 mm 670 x 390 mm
Embossing (Kolbus) 170 x 100 mm 660 x 405 mm
Hanging diamond 70 x 100 mm 320 x 450 mm
Mounting BF 512100 x 100 mm 309 x 375 mm
Thickness of the book block4 mm 80 mm