The machine, which cost around £25,000, was installed last October and enabled the Dorset-based company’s digital printing division to bring PUR-quality perfect binding operations in-house.
Silveredge Print and Communications director Nick Jowett said it had been outsourcing a significant amount of perfect binding over the past year.
"Bringing all of that finishing work back under our control, together with the excellent quality offered by PUR binding, will help us enormously with turnaround times," he said.
"For a digital print business the DigiBook 150 is ideal. It can handle all of our needs, which includes runs that stretch from 1 to 1,000 copies. Whilst we did look at other PUR machines, the starting prices of the competition were significantly more than this entry level Morgana solution."
Jowett added that since installing the DigiBook, the company had taken on two extra members of staff.
The digital operation at Silveredge was started five years ago and currently utilises Xerox 700i and iGen4 printing engines. The company also produces litho printed work via a five-colour B2-format press.
The DigiBook 150 is the entry-level product and is capable of approximately 150 cycles per hour. It can bind publications with spine thicknesses from 2mm through to 50mm, in book sizes up to 380 x 320mm.
Morgana Systems sales manager Ray Hillhouse said the binding requirements at Silveredge had grown over time. "The amount of perfect binding outwork being placed by the company suggested that the installation of their own entry-level binder would be a cost-effective investment," he said.
"The company is now selling PUR binding as a service to other print operations in the Poole area, as well as producing its own growing volume of work."
