Finishing & Screen Printing
Johnson Printing Service Turns to POLAR To Relieve Cutting Bottlenecks
Thursday 03. June 2010 - Johnson Printing Service in Dallas, Texas, has installed a POLAR 78X high-speed, programmable 4-up paper cutter to replace an aging machine. The new cutter joins an existing POLAR 78 EM cutter in the companys full-service bindery.
“We needed something newer and faster, and we knew we wanted another POLAR machine,” said company CEO Bob Johnson, Jr. “Now that the 78X cutter has been up and running for a few months, were thoroughly impressed by its accuracy and delighted with our 20 percent increase in productivity. We also know we have a machine that will give us year after year of the same high performance.” Johnson praised the new cutters operator-friendly, 15-inch TFT display and ability to store and recall job parameters, as well as the optional right and left side tables with air supply that permits easier handling of materials including text and lightweight cover stocks, as well as chip- and binder-board.
Johnson Printing Service specializes in the production of loose-leaf books, manuals, soft cover books and a wide range of educational and training materials, most of which wind up at the cutter for trimming. The company also uses the new POLAR 78X to trim parent sheets to press size. Traffic to and from the cutting department ranges “from busy to really busy,” according to Johnson, who confirmed that the addition of the faster, more productive 78X has relieved some of the potential for bottlenecks there.
Is it fair to say that the new cutter has lived up to its owners expectations? “Weve had good experience and good luck with our previous POLAR cutters,” Johnson said, “and were more than satisfied with Heidelberg sales and service.”
For 31 years, Johnson Printing Service has served a wide mix of Fortune 1000 clients and other companies that specialize in training and educational materials. The company employs a staff of 40 at its 40,000-square-foot manufacturing and fulfillment facility in Dallas.