Finishing & Screen Printing
Finishing Firsts From Bourg at Graphispag 2011
Thursday 24. March 2011 - Graphispag 2011, 22 - 26 March, Barcelona, Spain
C.P. Bourg S.A. (Bourg), a leading supplier of in-line, off-line and near-line finishing solutions for the global graphic arts industry, will have a number of finishing solutions on show at the Solutiones Post Print stand (Stand 808, Hall 3) at Graphispag in Barcelona this week, including the Bourg BB3002 Perfect Binder, the Bourg BSTe Suction Tower, the Bourg BSF Sheet Feeder and the Bourg BME Booklet Maker.
In addition to the products being exhibited by Solutiones Post Print, Bourgs distributor in Spain, Bourgs latest large-format in-line finishing modules – the BCMx Bleed Crease Module and BMEx Booklet Maker – will be featured on the Xerox stand (Stand 350, Hall 2) as an integral part of the Xerox iGen4 EXP Web-to-Finish solution.
The iGen4 EXP Web-to-Finish Solution makes touchless workflow achievable from online order to finished product with no manual setup or intervention. Instructions for incoming jobs are converted into an electronic job ticket as JDF and directed to the iGen4 EXP for printing. As each job enters the printing process, the job ticket is sent to the Bourg Box, a new solution developed in conjunction with Ultimate Technographics, which enables Bourg products to communicate with virtually any type of digital printer or finishing equipment. The Bourg Box translates the instructions in the electronic job ticket for the Bourg BCMx and Bourg BMEx finishing modules, each of which prepares for the job by setting up all mechanical functions to accommodate the specified sheet size, bleed and crease dimensions, number of sheets, number and type of stitches, and fold and trim dimensions. When the job is nearly completed, the Bourg Box notifies the iGen4 EXP, which sends instructions for finishing the next print job.
Speaking at Graphispag in Barcelona, Dominic Quennell, Sales Director of Bourg, commented: “Thousands of print providers already depend on Bourgs highly automated, reliable and easy-to-use solutions – from our sheet feeders and our perfect binders to those solutions weve developed in conjunction with our Printer Vendor Partners. But just as important as the quality and efficiency embodied in our existing solutions, is the innovation shown in our new solutions, and the range of Bourg finishing solutions that are being exhibited at Graphispag demonstrate this. Both the BMEx, which is the only booklet making solution in the market that can produce A4 landscape books, and the Bourg Box, which enables JDF to be implemented in a totally touchless integrated solution for the first time, show that Bourg is continuing to develop firsts in finishing.”