Nearly all digital printing suppliers demonstrated book applications at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Luzern, Switzerland, strongly underscoring the overall trend toward the manufacturing of digitally printed books. With SigmaLine, Muller Martini offers the world’s first total solution for industrial “Book on Demand” manufacturing, enabling printed products to be efficiently produced, even in ultra-short runs. Paper is printed from the roll, trimmed and folded inline and finished on an integrated perfect binder, copy-precise.

At the show, Muller Martini demonstrated a partial solution for offline perfect binding consisting of SigmaBinder, SigmaTower and SigmaTrimmer. The machines were demonstrated under production conditions, showcasing ways in which such an industrial solution can be highly valuable to smaller or mid-sized operations while also highlighting how SigmaLine technology can provide a comprehensive range of growth options for the future.