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The Binding Edge includes informative articles that help bindery and loose leaf facilities of all types improve their processes and keep up on the latest technologies. Each issue features a profile on a current bindery or loose leaf operation and covers solid business topics that can help with everyday business decisions. In addition, The Binding Edge also features the latest industry news and information on new products.

Best Practices for Paper Cutter Knives
Woody Powers II, Jorson & Carlson

A knife supplier or servicing company with expertise in knife quality, knife handling, and product application, as well as the know- how to install cutting knives properly, can provide useful best practices to improve cut quality and increase knife life. In most cases, implementing new procedures will increase quality and production time by eliminating costly knife change time. MORE...

Cadillac Looseleaf Products: Loose Leaf Goes Digital In Detroit
Dianna Brodine

It’s rare to hear good news out of Detroit these days. Concerns about the automotive industry hang over the city like a dark cloud, and Detroit has become the media symbol of the downturn in the nation’s economy. However, Cadillac Looseleaf Products, Inc. isn’t letting its suburban Detroit location slow it down. MORE...

Custom Binding: Dedicated Customer Service Meets DIY Convenience
Renée Varella

Today’s loose leaf market offers a range of options for consumers who want it all – whether that be the convenience of ordering custom binders through a strictly ‘do-it-yourself’ online service or the attraction of learning about all of the custom features available from an experienced customer service rep. MORE...

Financial Metrics for Managers
Gerry A. Michael, CPA, CMA, MBA

It’s pretty clear that this is not a “happy time” in the graphic arts industry. We’ve seen the economic climate this bad before, but knowing that things have been worse before is little consolation to a company in the midst of the battle now. The simple fact is that in the next few years, a lot of companies in the industry are likely to be gone. MORE...

Pay It Forward with Needed Training and Preventive Maintenance
Steven Calov, Heidelberg USA

Difficult economic conditions and depressed sales of new bindery equipment have imbued issues relating to maintenance and training with fresh urgency. Although binderies will always be production oriented, they also should understand that their ability to improve production efficiency and reduce their total cost of ownership is tied to decisions they make about preventive maintenance and the care they take to ensure their operators elicit nothing less than peak performance from their equipment. MORE...

The Latest…

Standard Finishing Systems Adds Absolute Printing Equipment Service, Inc. as New Dealer

Standard Finishing Systems, Andover, Mass., has appointed Absolute Printing Equipment to represent the Standard Horizon product line in Indiana and Kentucky. Absolute is headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind. Absolute’s expert sales and service teams have decades of graphic arts experience, and the company believes in long lasting partnerships with their customers based on quality products, unparalleled customer service, and reliable support. Itsr service technicians are fully trained and have stocked vehicles for service calls and ongoing preventative maintenance. Former Standard field sales manager Don Dzurison will lead the sales effort for Standard products at Absolute. Absolute will carry commercial-duty Standard Horizon saddlestitchers, perfect binders and three-knife trimmers, folders, collators, bookletmakers and cutters. Factory-trained service technicians will install, train on, and offer maintenance for all Standard Horizon equipment. For more information, contact Absolute Printing Equipment at (317) 862-9096 or visit www.absoluteprintequipment.com.

BIA Announces 2009 Mid Management Conference Keynote Speaker Howard Putnam

Howard Putnam is the former CEO of Southwest and Braniff Airlines and group vice president of marketing for United Airlines. Howard is a business and motivational speaker, author, consultant, commentator, and online mentor on leadership, customer service, change, transformation, and ethics. The 2009 BIA Mid-Management Conference will be held May 3-6, 2009, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Standard Finishing Announces Partnerships with HP, Canon

Standard Finishing Systems, a leading supplier of paper handling and post-press finishing solutions, announced at Graph Expo that it has signed a broad partnership agreement with HP for Standard Hunkeler paper handling solutions and service support for HP customers. Through this agreement, Standard Finishing Systems will provide sales of Hunkeler devices to HP in North America, as well as post-sales support in the field. Standard also has joined the Canon ImagePress Workflow Solutions Partner Program. This partnership is the result of close technical cooperation between Canon, Horizon, and Standard Finishing Systems to engineer tightly-integrated finishing solutions for Canon digital print customers throughout North America. www.sdmc.com