IBIS Bindery Systems

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• IBIS Bindery Systems
• General Presentation

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Introduction
Other staff
Slough, UK
IBIS High Wycombe, UK
Harris Graphics
AM Graphics
Heidelberg Finishing
1960 1988 1996 May 1999 2006

• IBIS was formed in May 1999 by ex employees from
  Heidleberg/AM and Harris others.
• 150 man-years collective experience in book
  finishing equipment design and manufacture.
• We are a privately owned UK-based business
  providing innovative book-finishing solutions
• Sales partnerships with all major digital printer
  vendors
• We are the first-choice supplier of in-line
  saddle-finishing solutions for digital print
• Digi-stitcher released at Drupa 2000,
  Smart-binder released at Drupa 2004.
• Unique Smart-binder product range provides both
  wire stitched and glued books from the same
  machine.

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IBIS company structure
Vacuumatic, Colchester, UK IBIS Product
manufacture
World wide Distributor network (Digital printer
vendors, Pre/post vendors etc)

• IBIS head office
• (High Wycombe UK )
• Engineering Design
• Customer Service
• Administration

IBIS USA sales office
Product test and Demonstration center High
Wycombe UK
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Smart-binder in-line system configuration
Smart-binder system
Web Cutter
Printer(s)
Unwinder
Optional sheet pile feeder for off-line operation
Optional folder for very high speed or small
format books
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Smart-binder off-line system configurations
Smart-binder fed from sheet pile feeder
Smart-binder fed from roll unwinder and web cutter
Optional folder for maximum throughput
Unwinder
Web Cutter
Optional sheet pile feeder for off-line operation
Optional folder for very high speed or small
format books
Smart-binder SB2-TC (release 2007)
Optional feeder for digitally printed sheets
Tower Collator feeders (max 60 feed hoppers)
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Smart-binder as part of a direct mail system
Unwinder
Web Cutter
Optional printer
Personalised, bound, booklet
Optional sheet pile feeder for off-line operation
Optional folder for very high speed or small
format books
Personalised cover letter
Direct Mail Output
Envelope feed
Reply form etc.
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Smart-binder output
SB-4
SB-3
SB-2
Side glue
ISG cold glued signatures
ISG cold glue
Wire staples (stitches)
Hot-melt spine glue

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Smart-binder SB2 and SB-3
ISG cold gluing (SB3 only)
Sheet and cover collector
Stitcher
Optional cover feeder
Folder
3-side trimmer
Finished book delivery
Sheet input from digital printer
Reject bin
For wire -stitched or ISG cold-glued books up to
10mm thick

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Smart-binder SB-4
Optional SCF in-line connection module (see next
page)
BB3002 hot-melt binder (see next page)

• For wire-stitched books up to 10mm thick and
  glued books up to 60mm thick

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SCF and BB3002 binder (as used on the SB-4 and
SB-4P systems
SCF signature collector and feeder into the
BB3002 binder
BB3002 hot-melt binder
Cover feeder
Cover feeder
Book reject delivery (not visible)
ISG cold -glued Signature infeed from the
Smart-binder SB-3 or sheet input direct from the
Digital Printer or sheet feeder
Square-back books up to 60mm thick
Book delivery and optional connection to CMT330
cooling tower and trimmer
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Typical Smart-binder Applications

• Personalised documents (or any very short-run
  jobs)
• Time critical documents (where finished books are
  required as quickly as possible) .
• Legal and financial documents.
• Government Papers.
• Health care plans and Insurance policies.
  
• Examination papers.
• Product manuals
• Sheet music
• CD and DVD booklets.
• Magazines.. Short run (eg low volumes samples to
  test consumer feedback)
• Sporting event programmes

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Why use IBIS? Because we will give you real
advantage over your competitors

• Reduced production costs
• In-line or off-line operation
• Up to 2440 pages/min throughput (up to 12,000
  books/hr output)
• Stitched and glued books (up to 60mm thick) from
  the same machine
• Low running costs
• Higher output book quality
• Individual sheet folding for better lay-flat of
  saddle-bound books up to 200 pages.
• ISG cold gluing available for increased strength
  and improved lay-flat
• Three -side trimming.
• Square-backed books (SB-4 only) with 4-scored
  covers and wheel side-glue.
• Bar code sheet tracking and auto-reject
• Increased Up-time
• Very robust, high quality, product construction
  for 7 x 24 hr, reliable operation
• Easy and quick to maintain.
• Professional training and support from IBIS field
  support team

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What you can expect from us

• We promise to
• Act with openness and integrity
• Guarantee a response to all communications
  within one working day.
• Treat with confidence all information you give
  us.
• Only sell to you if we are confident that we
  can meet you requirements.
• Review how our equipment may be customised to
  suit you needs.
• Test and demonstrate your job on our machine
  pre-sale, if felt necessary.
• Continue to work with you after installation
  until you are achieving the pre-agreed
• system performance.
• Provide you with continued access to our
  in-house technical support in future.

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IBIS Gold-Service support package

• IBISs Gold Service installation and support
  package comprises
• Machine packing and transportation to the end
  -customer.
• System Installation at the end -customer.
• Training of end-customers machine operators.
• 5-day intensive maintenance training course for
  the Resellers engineers
• Extended 12 month parts warranty
• Successful completion of the pre-agreed
  production tests.
• Post-installation support to ensure continued
  performance.

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IBIS Senior Management team

• IBISs senior management team and founding
  partners comprise
• three Oxford and Cambridge Engineering Graduates
  
• Malcolm Allitt (Non-exec Chairman) Formerly
  chief executive of Babcock
• division and senior roles with other
  international engineering companies
• John Cracknell (Managing Director) 20 years
  previous
• experience as Engineering Director with
  Heidelberg, AM
• and Harris.
• Mark Firth (Engineering Director) 20 years
• experience of designing special purpose and book-
• binding machinery.
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Our purpose and values

• Our Purpose
• To bring new opportunities and commercial
  advantage to our customers
• Our Values
• Openness
• We communicate honestly and frankly with both
  ourselves and with others.
•   Integrity
• We conduct ourselves correctly and deliver what
  we promise at all times.
• Technical excellence
• We take pride in supplying solutions with high
  standards of engineering and which provide
  maximum benefits to end-users.
•   Commitment
• We are committed to bringing success to our
  customers.
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IBIS Customer base (2006)
Europe

N.America
Japan
Malaysia
Africa

• 70 products installed world-wide. 85 are
  in-line with high speed digital web printers
  (Océ , IBM, Xerox, Delphax, Xeikon, Nipson etc).
  The remainder are operating off-line (fed from a
  high speed sheet pile feeder).

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Customer Testimonials
RR Donnelleys, Lancaster, PA, USA We've been
using our Digi-stitcher DST2 heavily for the past
four years. We are coming off one of our peaks
where we produced over 500,000 books with pages
ranging between 16 and 128. Each of these books
are variable in nature in that every page is
different and every book has a different page
count. We are now in the process of looking to
purchase a second IBIS line. Randy Zercher,
Digital print supervisor, RR Donnelleys, USA
R V, Germany R V produce large numbers of
individually personalised insurance documents,
each up to 128 pages thick. These are made using
the Smart-binder SB-3s unique ISG cold gluing
system which offers many advantages over wire
stitching for this application. Covers with a
cut-out window are fed selectively from a
multiple-bin feeder. According to print manager,
Mr Hees, the system performs trouble-free . ...
Christof Hees, print manager, R V insurance,
Germany.
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