Canon Australia is expanding its range of inline finishing products for commercial printers through a new collaboration with Plokmatic Group, taking on two of the brand’s booklet makers.
Canon will be launching Plockmatic’s BLM 50 and BLM 35 Production Booklet Makers, which the company claims will allow customers to produce stapled or square folded booklets of up to 200 and 140 pages at rated engine speeds. Canon says both models can handle coated, uncoated and textured stocks up to 350 gsm.
Both Plockmatic booklet makers will be commercially available to Canon’s Australian customers from February 2018 and will initially be compatible with the Canon imagePress C10000VP, C8000VP, C850 and C750 presses.
Gavin Gomes, director for Canon Business Services says, “Through our new relationship with Plockmatic, Canon Australia will be able to deliver new capabilities to our Production Print customers. Production Print continues to be a key focus for our Australian business. We will continue to increase our ability to provide tailored solutions that will empower Production Print businesses to unleash their potential, through increased productivity and by helping them bring new products to their customers.”
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Anjana Maikap, Product Marketing Manager, Canon Business Services says, “We were looking for booklet making solutions that would complement the high quality output of our imagePress range and deliver a superbly finished product that would work with a broad range of media. We also needed robust technology that would meet our customers’ needs for reliability, flexibility and productivity. Now our customers can produce beautiful square folded booklets to match the image quality delivered from the imagePress series.”
Canon says the Plockmatic BLM50 200 page 50 sheet booklet maker features a number of performance and durability enhancements, including multiple patented technologies while the Plockmatic BLM35 is a 140 page 35 sheet booklet maker is built on the same engineering platform as the 50 Sheet platform, but offered at a highly competitive price point.
The company says the Plockmatic Binder converts a conventional saddle stitched booklet into a flat square spine booklet with a look similar to that of a bound book and a high level of automation. Canon says the system is engineered to support an average volume of up to 30,000 booklets or manuals per month. The company also says customers can easily upgrade the BLM35 to BLM 50 anytime, onsite. Canon claims the Manual Feed function allows output from another printer to be finished on either of the two machines, even if the printer is running other jobs to the stacker.
Canon says the Plockmatic devices complement its existing range of own and third-party finishing options, which include perfect binding, punching, folding, ring binding, booklet making and three-knife trimming.
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