From Printed Sheets to Finished Books · Muneki Ban · Horizon International · IGAS 2022

Horizon presents nothing less than 21 end-to-end solutions; all targeted to different applications and all very real scenarios for the thousands of IGAS attendees. In this film, we talk to Muneki Ban from Horizon International. He shows us a setup that is actually two solutions. The first half is fed with up to B1 sheets, which are folded into typically 16-pages signatures, and where the signatures are moved to the pallet using a robot solution. The second half of the setup in this film is where the signatures are placed in a machine gathering the signatures into book blocks, moved on a conveyor to the BQ500 binding solution, and finally, using a three-knife trimmer delivering finished books – and all handled with only one operator.

The solution can even be extended with AGVs that can drive the pallets from a printing press to the feeder and the folded signatures to the gatherer – simply amazing and extremely productive!