On Monday, June 1st, Bridgetown Printing welcomed two new additions to its family (how sweet, right?). Our Vice President of Sales, Steve Plattner, summed it up pretty well:
"As you may know, the Xerox Docutech has arrived from Sacramento. It has been installed and is being serviced by a Xerox technician this week. We have run one job on it so far—95 tape-bound books. So far, so good.
We have also purchased a second machine, a Powis Parker tape binder with a separate foil labeling device. In a word, it is cool. You can order different colors and widths of tape for the binding. They are inserted one at a time into the labeler. You type in the title information on a small keyboard, insert a silver or gold foil cartridge, and feed the label in. It comes out a few seconds later, ready for the tape binder. You take the book block, jog it for a few seconds, place it binding side down in the tape binder, feed the tape in, and in a few seconds the binding is finished. After allowing it to cool for a few minutes, the book is ready to be packed and shipped. You have to see it to appreciate it, but as I said, it’s cool."
What does this mean for you? Well, as you may or may not know, the Xerox Docutech was made specifically for black and white reproduction. If you are working on a workbook, instruction manual, or other type-heavy project, this is the machine for you. Not only is it extremely efficient with in-line collating, but it is very cost-effective for those type of projects. Our tape binder gives you the look and feel of a perfect bound book but without all of the set-up fees and waste. In short, to quote Steve again, "it's cool." Want to come check it out? Give me a call and we will set up a tour!
-Kyle
The tape binder + tape machine could equal a replacement for textbooks for local school districts.
ReplyDeleteContent could live on the web, either at Wikipedia or in a wiki. If you're lucky enough to have a teacher engaged wiki, it could be an easy sell.
If anyone has a friend or relative that is a school teacher, try it out by asking them how much they like their textbooks. How happy they are to pay for textbooks instead of art or music classes.
If the conversation elicits interest, and you wan to put it together, just respond here and I'll blog the steps as I see them. It's really not very complicated.
Dr. What a great idea! I'm sure teachers are very passionate about their funding. Now, what do you mean about the Wikipedia content? I'd love a more detailed explanation because I think you're onto something. Thanks! -Kyle
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm not really a dr...just my nome du blog...
ReplyDeleteAt any rate. I just started a new blog on Monday called Clickable Print. If you prowl around, you'll see lots of examples of using wikipedia and other kinds of what I think is way cool uses for Print.
It's clickableprint.blogspot.com