Abstract:
A method for production of adhesive-bound printed products in a machine belonging to an adhesive-binder line. To change over from one job under production to a following job, supplied printed products of the following job are detected via a barcode and stopped prior to being fed into the machine of the adhesive-binder line. Remaining printed products of a preceding job are moved and fully processed through individual processing stations of the machine while the printed products of the following job remain in a waiting position in front of the machine. After completing the last printed product of the preceding job, an empty withdrawal of covers stored in a cover deposit and belonging to the following job is initiated until it is ensured that the stored covers are available for the printed products of the following job. After determining that a withdrawn cover securely matches the printed products of the following job, stopped printed products of the following job are released with a main control and fed into the machine for being processed via the individual processing stations.
Abstract:
A booklet processing mechanism is described that includes a booklet guide and clamp system that is configured to act as the guide during entry and exit of the booklet into and from the mechanism, as well as clamp and hold the booklet in its proper position during a processing operation, for example by a laser or during vision verification. The booklet guide and clamp system is moveable between a first position for guiding an upper, free edge of an opened booklet and a second position where the upper, free edge is clamped against a backing plate. At the second, clamping position, the mechanism is out of the way so that it does not interfere with the processing operation. Because the guiding and clamping functions are combined into one mechanism, only one actuator and one sensor are needed for the guiding and clamping functions.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects the number of manuscript sheets; a calculating unit which calculates the anticipated number of sheets of recording media based on the detected number of sheets; a determining unit which determines whether the anticipated number of sheets calculated exceeds the predetermined number of sheets; and a bookbinding unit which binds multiple recording media, wherein the calculating unit calculates the anticipated number of sheets, further including a cover arranged on the outside of the multiple recording media which are stacked in an overlapping manner, and wherein the bookbinding unit binds multiple recording media without arranging the cover on the outside of the multiple recording media when an image is not formed on the cover if the determining unit determines that the anticipated number of sheets exceeds the predetermined number of sheets.
Abstract:
Processing units 4 to 6 aligned along the transport path for a sheet bundle S are accommodated in a housing together with transport units 2 and 3. Windows 10a to 10c are provided in the housing front face, and variable-color lighting units 17 are arranged inside the housing. Light emitting surfaces (projection plates 18) of the variable-color lighting units are arranged facing the windows. Sensor units 13, 15a, and 15b that detect an anomaly of an operation of the transport unit and sensor units 14 and 16 that detect an anomaly of the operation of respective processing units are provided. A binding processing unit stops when an anomaly is detected by the sensor unit, when a system error occurs, or when an emergency stop instruction is input. The color of emission light from a light emitting surface changes to indicate the operation status of the binding processing system.
Abstract:
A booklet processing mechanism is described that includes a spine guidance system that is configured to hold the area adjacent to the spine of an opened, multiple sheet booklet against a backing plate during processing on a page of the booklet, for example by a laser or during vision verification. The spine guidance system is configured so that it resides closely adjacent to the spine of the booklet, below the field of lasing by the laser or other processing operation, so that it does not interfere with the processing operation.
Abstract:
A device for controlling the application of glue on the spine of a book. The device consists of a computerized controller that tracks the precise location of the book in the binding system, and a servo motor that controls a doctor blade, the servo motor is connected to the controller and is instructed when to open or close the doctor blade at the precise time to precisely place the glue on the book spine. The doctor blade can also be adjusted to control the thickness of the glue on the book spine.
Abstract:
A book binding sleeve accessory receives, aligns, grips, and holds an unbound stack of pages before and during a book binding process. The accessory has an arc-shaped inner bottom wall bridging and connecting between two generally opposing and similarly sized rectangular planar side walls that respectively depend away from said bottom wall and incline towards one another and terminate in two respective and proximate top free edges establishing an at rest position and said side walls can be flexed to a flexed apart position to receive interposed between said side walls an unbound stack to be bound. Preferably the side walls are offset to assist in shaping an unbound stack to align binding holes to match the pitch of a spiral coil used to bind the stack.
Abstract:
In casing-in bookbinding, in which a book sheet block of book sheets is wrapped with a cover, an input of pieces of information about the length of a short side of the book sheets, the length of a long side of the cover, and the thickness of a spine cover of the cover is received. Judgment is made, based on the received information, whether the length of the long side of the cover is less than a value obtained by adding the thickness of the spine cover to twice the length of the short side of the book sheets. If the length of the long side of the cover is less than the obtained value, an alert is issued to urge the user to change at least one of the pieces of information.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus for generating print data based on document data, comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive, in bookbinding printing for generating a book by folding a bundle of a plurality of sheets overlapping each other into two, an instruction to insert an insertion sheet to the folded bundle; and a generation unit configured to generate, in response to the instruction to insert the insertion sheet which has been received by the receiving unit, print data for outputting a book in which the insertion sheet has been inserted to inner side of the folded bundle by stacking a bundle of printed materials based on settings of the bookbinding printing and the insertion sheet on each other, and folding the bundle into two.
Abstract:
A book binding sleeve accessory receives, aligns, grips, and holds an unbound stack of pages before and during a book binding process. The accessory has an arc-shaped inner bottom wall bridging and connecting between two generally opposing and similarly sized rectangular planar side walls that respectively depend away from said bottom wall and incline towards one another and terminate in two respective and proximate top free edges establishing an at rest position and said side walls can be flexed to a flexed apart position to receive interposed between said side walls an unbound stack to be bound. Preferably the side walls are offset to assist in shaping an unbound stack to align binding holes to match the pitch of a spiral coil used to bind the stack.