Christmas comes early for Canberra’s Elect Printing, with business booming off the back of a brand new Horizon BQ-280PUR binder. After barely a month on the ground the single clamp binder has already clocked over 22,000 books, new jobs for the Fyshwick-based print shop and work shows no signs of slacking.
Currie Group handled the install, with the new machine going in alongside a Horizon BQ-270 perfect binder. The two Horizons will run side-by-side, with work already on the rise to fill up the expanded capacity.
Speaking with Print21 John Quiros, managing director, Elect Printing, said, “We had all these requests asking for burst binding. The 270 perfect was running really well but we were turning away all this work. Really that’s it, the way to bring in more work was to get the BQ-280PUR. With the PUR we can offer burst quality and strength with greater flexibility. It’s already added extra work, business, to our repertoire. A great success.”
The new BQ-280PUR has barely had six weeks run-in, but Quiros says they have already run more than 22,000 books, and the work is only growing.
“We’ve pulled in a whole of new work, annual reports and things, with next-day PUR binding. The other beauty of the BQ-280PUR is that you can open flat, unlike with the perfect where that just crack the spine,” he said.
The Horizon BQ-280PUR offers an extended spine length of 385mm, and a maximum book size of 385 x 320mm. The BQ-280PUR has a built-in thickness calliper for greater efficiency on instant change over and variable thickness book production. It can handle a book thickness of 51mm, which Quiros says is critical with digital uptake increasingly pushing up book sizes.
“Books are getting thicker these days, we really needed something that could match that. They’re using different stocks, coated, uncoated, and there’s more of an income stream to sell to the Canberra market. Bringing on new Horizon PUR opens up that whole market. It means we can take on those jobs and actually grow the business into new areas,” he said.
Quiros praised the hard work and support of Currie Group’s Kevin Cryer and Robert Peterson, who handled the install.
“We had two days of training and on the third day we were running live jobs. The service from Currie was great. We’ve been a Currie house for something like 22 years now,” said Quiros.
The new acquisition rounds out a comprehensive shop floor, joining the BQ-270 perfect binder, a Shinohara 75 five-colour and a range of folders, stitchers and a fully automated three-way trimmer.