Research and Development

Characterized by improved image quality and higher speed, the electronic photocopiers is increasingly launching into the commercial printing area in recent years. There has created an intense demand for a high-quality and versatile finishing system that can be directly connected to the electronic photocopier. Based on a high-precision paper handing technology having been cultivated through years of research and development efforts in the field of electronic photocopiers, Konica Minolta Co., Ltd. has been providing the industry with the state-of-the-art finishers capable of performing various finishing jobs such as bookbinding by pasting, bookbinding by saddle sticking, bookbinding by side stitching, folding, and punching.

A booklet containing a maximum of 600 pages can be bound by pasting to produce a booklet characterized by book-level quality, based on various forms of techniques for superimposing sheets, uniform pasting, measuring the thickness of a booklet, cutting and trimming the cover sheet, folding the cover sheet, covering the booklet. Eye-pleasing finishing is ensured by a combination of these techniques and optimization.

A booklet containing a maximum of 200 pages can be bound by saddle stitching to produce a booklet characterized by weekly-level quality. Beautiful finishing is provided by a saddle stitch method that ensures a rigid fold appropriate for a thick booklet as well as high-precision alignment, and a unique power-saving cutting and trimming method.

We offer six forms of folding -- a feature second to none in the industry concerned. We use a unique folding method for performing high-precision folding work with the minimum skewing in folding, even when slightly thermo-deformed sheets specific to an electronic photocopier are utilized.