The family gets back together with managing director, Lenny Todisco re-employing his uncle as operations manager at the Melbourne-based trade binders.
Mario's 45 year’s experience is welcomed as M&M gets into a rock’n’roll vibe with the production of a hard-cover souvenir book for the current Rolling Stones tour of Australia.
In a promotional press release to highlight the company’s ability to tackle out of the ordinary jobs, , Lenny Todisco said it had to meet impossible deadlines to have the ‘Stones’ publication available for the national tour but that it specialized in making the ‘impossible possible’
“Meeting so-called ‘impossible’ deadlines is nothing new for anyone in the binding and finishing trade, because we always need to try and help the client by making up any time lost earlier in the production process,” he said. “At M&M Binders we specialize in the size and type of work that other suppliers simply can’t handle.”
He pointed to The National Gallery in Melbourne’s ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition catlogue as an example, on which the section sewing was so tricky that other binders had already advised the client it ‘couldn’t be done’. M&M took on the challenge – and, rumour has it, the finished result brought the client to tears of joy when delivered!
Greg Rowe from Adams Print in Geelong, who printed the beautiful 280 page book, explained that while the size of most pages was 280 x 210mm, 10 eight-page sections were shorter, at 180 x 135mm, creating an unique ‘stepped’ effect at the page edge.
“Like most printers, we outsource some of our specialized finishing to trade houses and for this job, M&M Binders was the ideal choice as they not only had the equipment, expertise and experience to do the job, but really relished the challenge of making it work. The results were outstanding and the client was delighted,” he says.
Another job is a weighty tome entitled Shaping a Nation – A Geology of Australia, an encyclopaedia-like publication produced for Geoscience Australia and printed by Paragon Printers in Canberra.
The oversized hard-cover publication measures 300 x 258mm and has 584 pages, incorporating end papers and a dust jacket, making it a whopping 48mm thick – dimensions which push it to the outer capacity limits of most finishing equipment.
According to Mark Brown from Paragon Printers, the sheer size of this publication made it difficult to handle but M&M Binders was able to section sew and case bind it to perfection.
“The client was delighted with the high quality result and on-time delivery. We find M&M Binders a great company to deal with as they not only have the very latest technology but also the skill to push the capacity of their equipment to its limits. They understand the need to deliver to deadline and always produce an exceptional product.”