Sydney Stone, a Mississauga-based distributor specializing in finishing technologies, announced its plans to launch the Watkiss PowerSquare 224 in-line with a high-capacity sheet feeder at Graphics Canada. This new Watkiss system will be run as a product demonstration during the three-day show, beginning November 21 in Toronto.
Watkiss Automation Ltd. of the United Kingdom officially launched its PowerSquare 224 book-maker back in July 2013. The company describes the new machine as a complete booklet-making system for toner-based printing. The PowerSquare 224 is rated to produce stitched, SquareBack books up to 224 pages thick.
“This Watkiss product and the previous PowerSquare 200 fall in line with
what our customers frequently are searching for, a differentiating
finishing solution. Booklets can be produced by a variety of different
finishing devices but only the Watkiss PowersSquare 224 can produce a
booklet up to 10.4-mm thick with a square spine,” stated Michael Steele,
Managing Director, Sydney Stone. “This replicates the perfect bound
look, packs much more easily and with the wire stitch binding is
stronger than a perfect bound book.”
Building from its PowerSquare 200 predecessor, Watkiss increased the specification of this new model to include a larger online sheet size of 14.37 x 19.69 inches, the increased book thickness of 10.4mm described above, and a higher average monthly production volume of 50,000 books.
Watkiss also changed the paper path through the PowerSquare 224 to better handle higher-quality papers used in colour toner printing. The machine also features a new auto-adjustment system for book thickness, allowing uninterrupted running when streaming jobs, or when printing variable content documents that have different page counts.
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