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Tornado EX "Terminates" Hand-Collated Punched Books

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Tornado Terminates Hand-Collatingin Baton Rouge Producing the general fund budget book for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System is no simple task for its in-plant. With 10 tabs and a UV-coated front sheet, that book used to be cumbersome for Production Manager Chad Simpson and his seven employees in the Graphic Arts Department. Since the shop's HP Indigo 3550, HP Indigo 5r and two Xerox D95s could not run the tabbed sheets, each book's contents had to be collated manually. Simpson would have to pull staff off of other jobs for a few hours to hand-collate text pages, index...

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Introducing Revolutionary Tornado EX Auto Punch

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The Rhin-O-Tuff® Tornado Autopunch EX is an industry breakthrough system that uses BDT Print Media’s advanced media handling technology to automatically feed, collate, punch and deliver offset book stacks ready for binding in a single platform. The system will save binding service providers an average of 40% in process efficiency, dramatically reducing overall costs. Handling the widest range of media in the industry, the system delivers unparalleled flexibility and enables concurrent binding operations. Perfect for on-demand, short runs the system includes easy programmable job set-up, monitoring and changeovers.

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Machine of the Month

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AP360 Auto Punch Renz AP360 * Punch Up to 100,000 sheets per hour * Runs collated sets with tabs * Punches sizes as small as 4" x 3-3/8" * Easy to operate   See for yourself! If you can't visit the plant for a demo, we invite you to send us your "nightmare" punching job and we will send you a real time video of the job from set up to successful punching OR if you prefer we can do a live video demonstration. Tabs, small sizes, multiple changeovers where you constantly have to remove punch pins? The Renz AP360 will...

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