Printondemand specializes in runs of one copy. Seventy-five percent of the some 8,000 books and magazines that are printed daily by Printondemand in the academic, trade, education, and journal segments using six different paper grades and in color or black/white have a run size of one copy per title. The average run size per job is 1.75 copies, but can be as high as 1,000 copies.
That’s because we produce very efficiently – explains Andy Cork, the company’s founder and Managing Director. – It’s essential that our production is highly automated. After all, seamless is our business.
Printondemand, which was founded in 1995 and employs 65 people, therefore uses the Vareo/InfiniTrim inline duo for its softcover production.
Finishing 4.0 is our future – notes Andy Cork – The fewer manual interventions, the better. That reduces the scope for errors – and error-free production means no production waste. We often used to lose one or two days because of having to reprint copies. It’s the best machine that I’ve ever bought. Barcode recognition enables automated transfer from the perfect binder to the three-knife trimmer.
Thanks to the Vareo/InfiniTrim “dream team”, Printondemand, which prints all its products digitally using two inkjet lines, has increased its Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – which measures success by all factors affecting production (quality, performance, and uptime) – from 48 to 87 percent.
Printondemand’s customers increasingly make orders via a portal. The company’s proprietary, web-based Global BookVault software allows Printondemand customers to place on-demand orders online using its print ordering system. Annual growth rates for online orders are over 20 percent. Printondemand dispatches a quarter of all books on the same day that the order is placed.
Based on the press release of Müller Martini
