“Having recently taken the decision to upgrade our digital print device to a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4070 engine, the new binder will help us to show off both our print and in-house finishing capabilities to the fullest. The square-back capability of the binder is a feature that we can also promote for higher pagination publications – it gives the impression of a perfect bound book.”

“The binder will initially be manually fed, but as print quantities increase, we know that we can easily add an automated feeder on to the unit for higher productivity.”

NPC Print

NPC Print serves customers ranging from agencies, corporate clients, finance companies, and restaurants, through to local businesses. It operates from 186sqm premises with warehousing facilities, enabling it to offer free of charge stockholding facility for its customers.

Morgana Systems

The BM4000 Series uses the latest patented Plockmatic technologies to deliver top quality output. The base unit folds and staples booklets, and also provides for corner or edge stapled. It can produce up to 140 pages (35 sheets with the BM4035) or 200 pages (50 sheets with the BM4050). The set positioning mechanism enables the operator to easily adjust the staple and fold position on the fly. Corner or edge stapling is a fast and simple solution, typically used for producing meeting notes, reference documents, or hard copies of PowerPoint presentations.

The heavy-duty staple mechanism is designed for durability, as is maintenance free thanks to a patented solution that eliminates periodic service intervals. Staples are delivered via an easy to change staple cartridge.

Full details of Morgana’s product line-up can be found at: www.plockmaticgroup.com

Editorial article first published in QPP Quick Print Pro: NPC Print Upgrades Morgana Booklet Maker With BM4035 Purchase (quickprintpro.co.uk)

• Accent Equity has become the new majority owner of Plockmatic Group (“Plockmatic”), while Grimaldi Industri will remain as a significant co-investor
• Plockmatic is a global market leader within high and mid-end finishing solutions for the printing and packaging industries
• Key management will co-invest and will continue to develop the company in close cooperation with Accent Equity and Grimaldi

Accent Equity has as of today stepped in as new majority owners of Plockmatic together with Grimaldi Industri. Plockmatic’s management team will continue in their current roles and co-invest alongside Accent Equity and Grimaldi Industri.

Plockmatic is a trusted and well-established provider of innovative document finishing solutions to the global digital print- and packaging industries. The company offers a unique range of in-house developed products which support current macro trends such as increased automation and individual customization of printed materials.

“We are very proud of our 20 years together with Plockmatic and are excited to see Accent enter as a strong investor. We believe they will be a great partner for us to further enhance our journey of expanding our business and strengthen our offerings”, says Salvatore Grimaldi, CEO & Founder of Grimaldi Industri.

“We are very happy for this opportunity to invest in a truly well-managed company and we are impressed how the management team has developed Plockmatic over the years with a successful long-term strategic view. The company is well positioned to continue its growth journey in several different areas. We have a clear target to grow Plockmatic both organically and through acquisitions and look very much forward to working together with the Plockmatic team”, says Oscar Claeson, Associate Partner at Accent Equity.

“The graphical market offers great business opportunities for continued transfer of applications from traditional offset to digital print. With high focus and strong support from our owners, Accent Equity and Grimaldi Industri, we will be able to continue our journey of business development for finishing solutions and other core areas, such as supply chain, marketing, sales and technical support with focus on sustainability. Plockmatic continues to be dedicated in ensuring new and innovative solutions for the market, our partners and customers”, says Jan Marstorp, Group CEO of Plockmatic.

Oscar Claeson (Accent, chairman) & Jan Marstorp (CEO, Plockmatic Group)

“The Morgana system is so user friendly. This system allows us to provide improved job turnaround times. Our team like the ease of use of the BM5050. Its menu driven via the user touch screen, and it presents the operator with straightforward logical choices when setting up the job.”

Rick adds: “With typical production runs of about 2,000 copies, the BM5050 just whizzes through the work, meaning that our turnaround times for jobs have been reduced. Our finishing department is just delighted with the binder.”

The Result

The new system at Wilson Press was installed and ready for action from early 2023. With regard to the arrival of the new booklet maker, Rick Ricci said: “We have been familiar with Morgana equipment for some time, so when we were looking to an offline booklet making machine, they were an obvious place for us to look.

Work produced at Wilson Press on the new booklet maker can now include the square-back finish – when a wire-stitched booklet can take on the appearance of a perfect bound product.

Typical throughput at Wilson Press is focused on a core business of designing, printing, and mailing.

Operators can now also compensate for the skew caused when feeding long sheets with a simple adjustment in the user interface, on the fly. Wilson Press can now produce SquareFold booklets in sizes from 4.1 x 5.8” to Letter-sized Landscape, or in the larger Letter-square-format (297 x 297mm).

Sodexo Enterprises, Versailles, France, has added a Plockmatic BLM5050 booklet maker to its large print production installation. The new booklet maker links inline to one of the operations Canon imagePRESS C10010VP print engines.

“The new finishing unit is a great time saver. It means an overall increase in production, which gives my staff additional time to complete other tasks on the job. We are particularly impressed with the ability to finish A4 landscape publications – we couldn’t do that before.”

Speaking particularly about the latest Plockmatic addition, responsible for the production, Cyril Pioli, said: “The BLM5050 is very user friendly – and that’s one of the reasons why we chose this model. The display panel on the unit tells you exactly what to do, step by step, so it’s easy for an inexperienced operator to learn. We also have the Plockmatic BLM50 from some time ago, so we know that Plockmatic solutions are both reliable and robust.”

Laurent Barbut adds: “The new Plockmatic unit has already saved us a lot of production time and money because we can do all of the job production in-house – there’s no need to outsource anything, which is something that always comes at a higher cost.”

Overall, Cyril Pioli said: “Plockmatic deliver a reliable product, with a strong construction, that is easy to use – an ideal solution to work in tandem with our Canon printers. Whilst I do really love our French car industry, Plockmatic equipment is like comparing a Citroen to a Mercedes! It’s built so much better than other products, and it just works.”

“Because we had used a Plockmatic unit before, and we were extremely satisfied with that, we had no hesitation in returning to them again, and this time, of course, we had added extra functionality being able to produce A4 landscape books.”

With reference to future investments Pioli said: “We are always looking for new solutions to invest in – solutions that can make our business better in terms of quality or in our working environment. Special requests from our customers may require a further equipment investment, but for now we are good!”

Plockmatic BLM5000

A new kind of booklet making system that combines robust and reliable performance with a new range of applications, including landscape format. Add the Plockmatic signature square fold finish to A4 landscape format documents for the appearance of a perfect bound book. BLM5000 is available in both staple and stitch versions.

The BLM5000 series is compatible with Canon imagePRESS V1350, imagePRESS V1000 and the imagePRESS V900 series.

The staple version can handle sheets from 206 x 210mm up to 320 x 620mm, in weights from 65 to 350gsm (dependant on paper type). The maximum book thickness is 10mm (approx. 200 pages of 80gsm). The unit contains two low impact staple heads with moving clinchers.

The stitch version can handle sheets from 120 x 210mm up to 320 x 620mm, in weights from 65 to 350gsm (dependant on paper type). With RTC minimum sheet size is 148.5 x 210mm. The maximum book thickness is 10mm, dependant on paper size (approx. 200 pages of 80gsm). The unit includes two ISP stitch heads.

Sodexo Enterprises

The company was founded in 1963. The in-house operation in Versailles, which incorporates the company’s Central Reprographics Department (CRD), came into being in 1990.

Sodexo Enterprises are one of the forty largest companies in France. They produce a wide range of products, mostly focused on food and facilities management. In the in-house print unit Sodexo produce a large variety of print on their Canon print engines that needs to be finished. Many of the print products are output from the Canon devices in booklet form, from 5 to 50 sheets in A4 format (both portrait and landscape), with most requiring a short print run – from just a couple of copies, up to 30. Approximately 80% of the work produced is for their own internal business use, with 20% of work for other companies within the Sodexo Group.

“We found our previous unit, from another supplier, a bit of a challenge at times. The Morgana unit, in comparison, was so user friendly. The job set-up is very straightforward – you just select the size, number of pages, the desired format, the run length, and then you are all set to go. The finer detail can also be tweaked, such as the position of the folds, and the staples.

“With typical production runs of about 2,000 copies, the BM4050 just whizzes through the work, meaning that our turnaround times for jobs have been reduced. Our finishing department is just delighted with the binder.”

Work produced at WhiteOak Printing on the new booklet maker can now include the square-back finish – when a wire-stitched booklet can take on the appearance of a perfect bound product.

Typical throughput at WhiteOak includes graduation commencement programs, school sporting event programs, concert programs, manuals for construction equipment, church bulletins, and many other general commercial publications.

Morgana Systems BM4000

The Morgana Systems BM4000 series of booklet makers produce consistently high-quality booklets in a wide range of sizes and media types. The basic configuration, with hand feed capability, enables users to make booklets in an offline mode, meaning that one binder can service multiple print engines.

BM4050 can produce corner stapled documents in portrait Letter format, as well as edge stapled documents in portrait, plus the popular landscape Letter, with up to 200-page booklet capacity. The unit can also support long sheets of up to 26-inches (660mm), without the Creasing and Side slitting module (CST) or 24.5-inches (620mm) with CST.

The unit’s heavy duty staple mechanism has been designed for durability, and is maintenance free thanks to a patented solution that eliminates periodic service intervals. Users are able to adjust both the staple and fold positions through the easy initial set-up. The BM4000 series machines have a patented “set positioning mechanism” that allows the operator to adjust the staple position and direction of travel via the intuitive user interface.

Operators can now also compensate for the skew caused when feeding long sheets with a simple adjustment in the user interface, on the fly. WhiteOak can now produce SquareFold booklets in sizes from 4.1 x 5.8-inches to Letter-sized Landscape, or the Letter-square and even the largest 11.96″ x 11.96″ format.

About WhiteOak Printing

Established in 1984 this locally owned business began life in Marietta, Pennsylvania. In 1987 the business moved to downtown Lancaster, and then in the next decade, 1995 to be exact, the company moved into its present day 18,000 square-foot building in Dillerville Road, Lancaster. In 2001 the company installed its first digital colour press – an Indigo UltraStream. In 2004 the business created its own online ordering system. By 2012 the business was ready for growth, and it acquired the promotional products company, GPI Marketing, and the growth continued the following year when it acquired another promotional company, Creative Promotions Plus. Print growth continued, and in 2021the latest and greatest piece of equipment, an HP Indigo 12000 was installed.