PUR is the strongest, most flexible binding adhesive available and offers several additional advantages over other binding adhesives. When inks, coatings or digital print toners are present in the spine area these can compromise the strength of typical hotmelt perfect binding. PUR is resistant to this and will form a super-strong bond with all weights and finishes of paper stocks. In addition PUR works well with synthetic and recycled-content stock.

The DigiBook 300 perfect binding machine is ideally suited to traditional and digital printers who require short runs of PURperfect bound books to a professional standard. These innovative machines are equipped with a patented closed gluing system where the spine and side gluing is applied by a slot applicator for the utmost binding quality and accuracy.

The DigiBook 300 is an innovative book binding machine designed and built for the very latest market requirements. It is easy to use, even by non-specialised personnel, via a touch screen panel with icon graphics that allow the programming of all precision operations in just a few seconds, including startup and shutdown.

There are a thousand alphanumeric memories available, which enable repeat jobs to be saved for later recall, thus providing totally automatic setup in a few seconds.

Key features

• Up to 300 books per hour
• Touch screen operation complete with automatic format change
• 1000 alphanumeric memories available
• Pneumatic opening and closing of clamp
• Binding length (spine) from 110mm up to 450mm
• Spine thickness from 2 to 50 mm
• Spine preparation by sophisticated milling device
• Paper chip extractor
• Patented hermetically sealed PUR application system for spine and side gluing with automatic glue cut-off
• Angled work surface keeps books in a vertical position

The DigiBook 300 binding machine uses a new and innovative system which is covered by no less than seven international patents.

The application is direct and hermetically sealed, without odour or toxic fume emissions, and does not require extraction fans, thus allowing the use of polyurethane glue in 2kg cartridges in a simple and wastefree manner.