Morgana 104 Squarefold

Morgana 104 Squarefold

The revolutionary Morgana 104 Squarefold applied a squarefold finish to your booklets helping to achieve the look and feel of perfect bound books.

The Morgana Squarefold 104 adds increased value to your booklets by giving them a professional, perfect bound look with the security of a stapled finish. This revolutionary device can be used as a hand-fed unit attached to the BM60/61 Bookletmaker or linked to a wide range of traditional and digital finishing devices.

Added advantages of the Morgana 104 Squarefold are much less packaging capacity and the ability to print onto the spine of thicker booklets. Booklets from landscape A4 to A6 size can be produced on this versatile simple to use machine.

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Morgana BM350/500

Morgana BM350/500

The BM350/500 is a modular booklet making solution for centralised reproduction departments and commercial print providers – large and small. Customers can choose from a range of cost-effective options to support their application requirements.

The system is packed with a host of unique technologies that deliver finished books with quality to match today’s printing systems.

Customers are demanding more media versatility from digital print. The BM350/500 is designed from the ground up to work with today’s coated, uncoated and textured paper stocks.

Key Product Features
BM500 – 200 page (50 sheet) hand fed booklet maker
BM350 – 140 page (35 sheet) hand fed booklet maker
Intuitive user interface
Patented folding mechanism provides a sharp and professional finish
Book thickness measuring automatically sets the fold rollers
Heavy duty stapling heads with 5000 staple cartridge
Face Trimmer Module option will trim the shingle off the front of the book
Optional Squarefold unit to give square edged books with flatter finish. Modular Design

Modular Design
Booklet Maker – the simplest configuration includes the Booklet Maker and output tray to provide a simple solution to producing hand fed sets – stapling, folding and stacking.

Face Trimmer – the addition of the trimmer removes the shingled effect on the face of the folded document and provides a clean document edge.

Squarefold – this unit adds a square folded spine for a professional, perfect bound look to the finished book.

Hand feeding – output from any print device can be manually fed through the booklet maker, face trim and squarefold modules.

Download the Morgana BM350/500 Brochure here

Morgana BM 60 Booklet Maker

Morgana BM 60 Booklet Maker

The BM 60 bookletmaker is a compact and simple to use bookletmaker for hand feeding.

This machine is able to saddle staple and fold booklets of up to 22 sheets of 80gsm paper, giving up to 88 page booklets. Side and corner stapled documents can also be produced with this versatile machine. Sheets ranging from 60gsm to 250gsm and from SRA3 to A5 can be run to produce A6 to A4 sized booklets. Booklets with loop stapling can also be produced, by simply changing the stapler head.

Various functions are engaged or disengage from the operator panel: manual or automatic mode, stapling off for folding only or folding off for stapling only.

Up to 1800 booklets can be produced per hour on this well proven and sturdy product machine. The BM 60 is a market leader for the hand fed bookletmaker segment.

Key Product Features
1800 booklets per hour
Saddle staple and fold
Up to 88 page booklets on 20lb bond stock
Media weight : 16lb bond – 70 lb cover
Media size : 12.6 x 17.7″ – 5.83 x 8.27″
Side and corner staple
Booklet sizes from 8.5″ x 11″ – 4.25 x 5.85″

Download the Morgana BM 60 Booklet Maker brochure here

Morgana BM 60/61 Bookletmaker

Morgana BM 60/61 Bookletmaker

The BM60/61 bookletmaker is a compact and simple to use machine to make booklets up to 88 pages of 80gsm paper.

The machine comes in two formats, the BM60 is for hand feeding only, whilst the BM61 is equipped with a side jogging unit and can be connected to the C/AC 510 collator to give more automation to the booklet making process.

These versatile machines are able to saddle staple and fold up to 22 sheets of paper and can also be used to side staple or corner staple documents. Booklets with loop staples can also be produced by simply changing the stapling head.

The BM61 can take sheets from 200 x 270mm to 305 x 440mm. Various functions can be engaged or disengaged from the operator panel: manual mode, automatic mode, stapling off, or folding only, or folding off for stapling only. An additional beltstacker can be fitted to the delivery for longer runs of booklets.

The BM61 can take sheets from 200 x 270mm to 305 x 440mm. Various functions can be engaged or disengaged from the operator panel: manual mode, automatic mode, stapling off, or folding only, or folding off for stapling only. An additional beltstacker can be fitted to the delivery for longer runs of booklets.

Download the Morgana BM 60 Booklet Maker brochure here

Morgana PowerSquare™ 160

Morgana PowerSquare™ 160

An open-architecture, complete booklet making system that staples, folds, forms and trims in a single pass to produce added value SquareBack™ books.
The all NEW Watkiss PowerSquare™ 160 meets the needs of mid to high volume printers, capable of producing 8.5” x 11” landscape books. The machine is configured with one or two precise and reliable vacuum feeders, each with a 6” capacity. OMR is standard, with optional barcode readers. Finishing your print jobs offline gives flexibility in your workflow and handles the output from multiple digital engines.

The PowerSquare™ 160 is a modular open-architecture system that is flexible and versatile: it lets you produce booklets from a wide range of sheet sizes and materials, including A4 landscape format and heavy cover stocks. With optional accessories for full bleed trimming and book stacking, enabling you to increase productivity and efficiency.

Download the PowerSquare™ 160 brochure here

Morgana PowerSquare™ 160VF

Morgana PowerSquare™ 160VF

An open-architecture, complete booklet making system that staples, folds, forms and trims in a single pass to produce added value SquareBack™ books.

The NEW PowerSquareTM 160VF with its high capacity dual bin feeder offers a flexible solution for a wide range of booklet types and sizes. The system is fed by the VF vacuum assisted feeder which has a loading capacity of up to 540mm, giving long uninterrupted production runs. Pre-collated sets can be placed into both bins for longer runs, or covers can be placed into one of the bins when they need to be merged with collated sets. The feeder can also be loaded on the run with automatic bin switching.

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PowerSquare TM 160 Hand Fed

Watkiss PowerSquare™ 224

The Watkiss PowerSquare™ 224 is a unique and innovative complete book making system for digital and offset print applications. It enables you to produce SquareBack books up to 224 pages – perfect for high paginations or heavier paper stocks. SquareBack books can carry print on the spine, just like a perfect bound book. They are easy to handle, stack and pack.

In a single machine it combines the four processes of stitching, folding, spine forming and trimming to produce SquareBack books up to 224 pages thick. It features fully automatic settings for different book size and pagination, including variable stitch-leg length for varying book thickness.

The maximum finished book thickness – 10.4mm (approx 208 pages 80gsm, 224 pages 70gsm), is double that of alternative conventional booklet making machines, so it is ideally suited to higher paginations or to thicker stocks. This makes the Watkiss PowerSquareTM 224 a fast and cost-effective alternative to perfect binding or tape binding. Digital print applications frequently use heavier stocks and need the flexibility to produce a wider range of finished books from a single process, with little or no operator intervention – the Watkiss PowerSquare™ is a perfect match.

Download the Watkiss PowerSquare™ 224 brochure here

Morgana System AF2000/AF2000S

System AF2000/AF2000S

In today’s demanding printing environment, a flexible solution to booklet production is a must for all digital printers.

Often there is a need to merge jobs from more than one digital print device or to add color, laminated or coated covers to finish a booklet. There may also be a requirement to finish booklets from several digital devices, where an inline solution on each machine may not be a cost effective solution.

The System AF2000S with its high capacity dual bin feeder offers a flexible solution for a wide range of booklet types and sizes. The system is fed by the AF602 air assisted feeder which has a loading capacity of up to 21″, giving long uninterrupted production runs.

Pre-collated sets can be placed into both bins for longer runs, or covers can be placed into one of the bins when they need to be merged with collated sets.

The bookletmaking section can be supplied with heavy duty stitching heads for up to 50,000 stitches from one wire spool, or with stapling heads which can be loaded with 5000 staple cassettes. A fore-edge trimmer comes as standard to give clean finish to the booklets.

An optional Morgana Squarefold can be added to the system to produce squared spine flat books which give the effect of a perfect bound finish.

For full bleed production, the Morgana CST crease and side trim unit can be added. Trim edges can be removed from the sheets meaning there is no need to trim the booklets prior to production in an offline guillotine.

The Morgana System AF2000/AF2000S, with it’s versatile configurations and options will give a highly flexible solution to your digital booklet production needs.

Key Product Features

  • Air assist dual bin feeder unit
  • up to 21″ loading capacity
  • Feed pre-collated sets from digital devices
  • High quality stapling head or stitching head versions available
  • Up to 1800 sets per hour
  • High quality front edge trimmer unit

Download the System AF2000 / AF2000S Brochure here.

Morgana System AF350/500 VF350/500

Morgana System AF350/500 VF350/500

The Morgana BM350/500 is a modular booklet making solution for centralised reproduction departments and commercial print providers – large and small. Customers can choose from a range of cost-effective options to support their application requirements. The system is packed with a host of unique technologies that deliver finished books with quality to match today’s printing systems.

Customers are demanding more media versatility from digital print. The Morgana BM350/500 is designed from the ground up to work with today’s coated, uncoated and textured paper stocks.

Key Product Features
BM500 – 200 page (50 sheet) hand fed booklet maker
BM350 – 140 page (35 sheet) hand fed booklet maker
Intuitive colour graphical user interface
Patented folding mechanism provides a sharp and professional finish
Book thickness measuring automatically sets the fold rollers
Heavy duty stapling heads with 5000 staple cartridge
Face Trimmer Module option will trim the shingle off the front of the book
Optional Squarefold unit to give square edged books with flatter finish. Modular Design

Modular Design
Booklet Maker – the simplest configuration includes the Booklet Maker and output tray to provide a simple solution to producing hand fed sets – stapling, folding and stacking.

Face Trimmer – the addition of the trimmer removes the shingled effect on the face of the folded document and provides a clean document edge.

Squarefold – this unit adds a square folded spine for a professional, perfect bound look to the finished book.

Hand feeding – output from any print device can be manually fed through the booklet maker, face trim and squarefold modules.

Dual Bin Feeder Options – The high capacity AF602 or VF602 dual bin feeder, or the ACF510 gives the ability for long uninterrupted runs of booklets. The bins can be loaded on the run with pre-collated sets from multiple print engines.

Download the Morgana BM350 / 500 Brochure here.