The System 2000S, which was launched in the UK at May’s North Print & Pack, produces booklets of up to 120 pages and is fed by an ACF510 hybrid feeder. The 2000S is capable of feeding pre-collated sets from a digital print engine, collating litho printed sections or combining both into a finished book product. The heavy-duty bookletmaking section comes with wire stitching heads, fore-edge trimmer, and the Morgana Squarefold 2000. The other US debut on the Morgana stand will be the DigiBook 300 PUR perfecter, which was launched in the UK and the rest of Europe at Drupa 2012. The unit can produce up to 300 A4 books per hour. “The kit is extremely quick and effective to set-up and shut down – ideal for very short runs of PUR bound books,” said a spokesman. “Chicago is normally good for Morgana. Small-format digital printing is a predominant market in the US, with lots of ma and pa print shops. Morgana are therefore perfectly placed to market optimum pieces of finishing kit.” Print 13 runs from 8 to 12 September....

According to the union, 93% of members said they opposed Royal Mail privatisation, 95% supported the CWU’s rejection of Parcelforce’s pension proposal and 96% supported CWU’s pay claim. The ballot results were broadly in line with the results of the consultative ballot of Royal Mail workers held in June. More than 90% of Parcelforce’s staff are CWU members, and the ballot achieved a 72% turnout. Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said: “Workers in Parcelforce have spoken loud and clear and added their voices to those of hundreds of thousands of others – they are against Royal Mail privatisation. “There is a consistent message from both the workforce and the public that privatisation is not needed, not supported and not popular. It’s time the government looked at alternatives to privatisation – something we can help them with.” June’s Royal Mail consultative ballot proved to be a pre-cursor to a full national strike ballot at the letters operation by the CWU, which is due to be held next month. However, Parcelforce is a separate company, although wholly owned by Royal Mail, and as such is subject to separate negotiations between the union and management. Open ended talks between the union and Parcelforce management are on going and a ballot on strike action can only be held if no agreement is reached on pay and conditions. It would be illegal for Parcelforce staff to strike purely in protest against privation of the Royal Mail. “Nothing’s been ruled out at the moment, but there are no imminent indications talks will fail, but we still have no pay deal in place for this year,” said a CWU spokeswoman....

According to the union, 93% of members said they opposed Royal Mail privatisation, 95% supported the CWU’s rejection of Parcelforce’s pension proposal and 96% supported CWU’s pay claim. The ballot results were broadly in line with the results of the consultative ballot of Royal Mail workers held in June. More than 90% of Parcelforce’s staff are CWU members, and the ballot achieved a 72% turnout. Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said: “Workers in Parcelforce have spoken loud and clear and added their voices to those of hundreds of thousands of others – they are against Royal Mail privatisation. “There is a consistent message from both the workforce and the public that privatisation is not needed, not supported and not popular. It’s time the government looked at alternatives to privatisation – something we can help them with.” June’s Royal Mail consultative ballot proved to be a pre-cursor to a full national strike ballot at the letters operation by the CWU, which is due to be held next month. However, Parcelforce is a separate company, although wholly owned by Royal Mail, and as such is subject to separate negotiations between the union and management. Open ended talks between the union and Parcelforce management are on going and a ballot on strike action can only be held if no agreement is reached on pay and conditions. It would be illegal for Parcelforce staff to strike purely in protest against privation of the Royal Mail. “Nothing’s been ruled out at the moment, but there are no imminent indications talks will fail, but we still have no pay deal in place for this year,” said a CWU spokeswoman....

The binder, supplied by IFS, is supplied with a Meler adhesive pre-melt system and a PUR glue tank option. A Horizon HT-30 Robotic 3-edge trimmer completes the quick-response binding service at the Walton-on-Thames trade finisher. Managing director Adam Melvin said the kit cost £108,000 but would add around £180,000 of business to his circa-£1m turnover. He said the business was recieving a lot of enquiries for short run perfect bound books. “Everyone seems to want 100 to 150 copies up to a maximum of, maybe, 5,000 and we needed the most cost-effective way to do that,” said Melvin, who looked at a number of systems including used machines. “But we decided the BQ470 gave us everything we wanted. It’s fast to set up and easy to use. Also important to us was having the back-up and support of a good supplier, and we knew we would have that with IFS. “This was the first big investment we’ve made and we will see how it goes over the next four years. The market is not so vibrant but we think the kit will pay for itself. It’s a good all-round machine and is fast.” The 1,350bph Horizon machine joins a raft of other finishing equipment at the facility offering cutting, creasing and folding, saddlestitching, diecutting, wiro-binding and lamination. “We are now able to offer our current customers a wider range of services and, of course, we plan to use this new service to expand our customer base. We expect to achieve return on investment in under three years.”...

The binder, supplied by IFS, is supplied with a Meler adhesive pre-melt system and a PUR glue tank option. A Horizon HT-30 Robotic 3-edge trimmer completes the quick-response binding service at the Walton-on-Thames trade finisher. Managing director Adam Melvin said the kit cost £108,000 but would add around £180,000 of business to his circa-£1m turnover. He said the business was recieving a lot of enquiries for short run perfect bound books. “Everyone seems to want 100 to 150 copies up to a maximum of, maybe, 5,000 and we needed the most cost-effective way to do that,” said Melvin, who looked at a number of systems including used machines. “But we decided the BQ470 gave us everything we wanted. It’s fast to set up and easy to use. Also important to us was having the back-up and support of a good supplier, and we knew we would have that with IFS. “This was the first big investment we’ve made and we will see how it goes over the next four years. The market is not so vibrant but we think the kit will pay for itself. It’s a good all-round machine and is fast.” The 1,350bph Horizon machine joins a raft of other finishing equipment at the facility offering cutting, creasing and folding, saddlestitching, diecutting, wiro-binding and lamination. “We are now able to offer our current customers a wider range of services and, of course, we plan to use this new service to expand our customer base. We expect to achieve return on investment in under three years.”...