![]() ![]() So we brought it in-house to save money and make us more competitive," recalls Seeley. "We were doing lots of small-run booklets of 250-500 and paying a minimum set-up charge every time. The company’s other facilities include cutting and creasing, and wire binding, and it was this desire to handle as many day-to-day processes as possible in-house that resulted in the original decision to add a bookletmaking system. "If we have any big litho fold/stitch/trim jobs we use an outside company, whereas we do all our digital work in-house, including laminating," he adds. If we were doing huge runs, we’d have looked at the other options on the bookletmaker. "We’re using it for digital and short-run work. We don’t have the three-knife-trimmer option. The machine collates them and puts in the stitches and trims the fore-edge. However, for MPD’s needs a single-tower configuration was ideal, says Seeley: "We trim the jobs down head to foot as four-page sections and put those in the bins. A host of add-ons are available, including barcode verification and hole punching. The modular Horizon device is highly configurable and can have up to six towers. "Installation went very well, as did learning to operate it as we’re used to running similar machines." With installation and training "not taking very long at all", the bookletmaker was up and running in just a couple of days. But we’re not into that sort of run length," says Seeley. ![]() For example, you could be setting up one tower while the other is running a job. "The reason we only went for one tower is because two-tower set-ups are typically used for much longer runs. The company spent around £30,000 on the new set-up. "Duplo also has a heavier-duty machine, although it was quite a step-up in price," adds Seeley.ĭecision made, MPD ordered a Horizon SPF/FC-200A bookletmaking system, configured with a single, 10-bin collator tower running inline to a stitching, folding and fore-edge trimming unit, and operated via a colour touchscreen. We knew people who have the Horizon and it seemed a better option for the price and overall package, and it was a more robust build," he explains. "Our digital side is growing and we wanted something to cope with a bigger workload. When the time came to replace the old bookletmaker, Seeley considered the options from both Duplo and Horizon. Last year also marked another switch for the company, which had been using a Duplo bookletmaking system. We loved the Indigos, but the iGen4’s larger-format sold it," explains Seeley. Having been one of the early users of the Indigo press back in the mid 1990s, last year involved a big change for MPD when it switched supplier with the installation of an iGen4 from Xerox. The company’s clients include corporates, agencies, motor manufacturers, colleges and charities.Īnd MPD even takes its print kit on the road, producing on-demand posters and gift items on its Canon wide-format printer at the annual Air Tattoo for client the RAF Charitable Trust. Nowadays, says Seeley, MPD is "very heavily into digital printing", producing a raft of personalised and short-run products including posters, mugs and promotional banners, alongside marketing material such as brochures and leaflets. Managing director Graham Seeley is a former print buyer at WH Smith, who made the move from buyer to print provider when the opportunity came up to run MPD on behalf of its co-founders, FS Moore and Print Direction.įour years later, he bought the company and became managing director. The 28-year-old company started life as a litho printing business, and still has the single-colour GTO that formed part of the original set-up, alongside its modern five- and four-colour B2 offset presses. More pertinently for the purposes of this article, it is also the location of MPD Offset, a far less baffling proposition altogether.
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