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If you’re looking for a “novel" way to drive sales and profits back into your shop, offer your customers an additional service or tap into the growing market for short-run, just-in-time softcover book production while generating an impressive return on investment (ROI), C.P. Bourg may have the “perfect” product – and they can prove it with a new ROI Analysis tool.
The company, a world leading developer and supplier of innovative in-line and near-line document feeding, binding and finishing equipment, developed the ROI Analysis tool for its Bourg BB3002 PUR perfect binder, and it is offering the tool free of charge on request via e-mail.
The Bourg BB3002 PUR is the first single-clamp PUR perfect bin-der to fully automate short-run manufacturing to bind all types of books and manuals from directories and training materials to corporate, retail and personal titles. The Bourg BB3002 PUR enables fast, economical production of professionally-bound “books of one” or of hundreds, on demand.
The market for on-demand book publishing is soaring. Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the U.S., recently projected that 285,394 books were produced in the U.S. in 2008 on demand, a “staggering” 132% increase over the 2007 total of 123,276 titles. The 2008 level reflected the second consecutive year of triple-digit growth in the on demand segment, and 462% above 2006 levels, Bowker reported.
To tap the power of PUR adhesive for short-run digital or mixed-production workflows, Bourg engineers collaborated with Nordson to develop new communications links between the proven Bourg BB3002 EVA Perfect Binder and the precision Nordson VersaPail™ melter, and extended key aspects of Bourg’s proven BB3002 feature set to deliver optimal PUR gluing efficiency and effectiveness while maintaining a safe operating environment.
