Morgana launches two new booklet makers

Morgana announced two new booklet makers that are essentially variations on the proven Watkiss PowerSquare design. The Morgana PowerSquare 224VF and Morgana PowerSquare 160VF have now gained the VF Dual Bin feeder, which was originally developed by Plockmatic. This allows the two PowerSquare units to be used offline.

The PowerSquare design can be used with both digital and offset print and offers stitching, folding, spine forming, and trimming in a single unit. The 224 unit can produce books up to 224 pages, and features fully automatic settings for different book size and pagination, including variable stitch-leg length for varying book thicknesses. It allows up to eight stitches along the spine of a book for special applications.

The 160 model is mainly aimed at mid to high volume printers. It’s capable of producing booklets from a wide range of sheet sizes and materials, including A4 landscape format. The new feeder sits at right angles to the main unit, which makes for a very compact footprint.

The 224-model able to produce 224pp books and carry out the stitching, folding, spine forming, and trimming in one machine. It has automatic settings for books size and pagination, with variable stitch-length for different book thicknesses and up to eight stitches along the spine for special applications. As the name suggests, the PowerSquare models produce square-back booklets, with a formed spine, giving the look of a perfect bound publication, which makes them much easier to handle and pack.

Ray Hillhouse, general manager of Plockmatic’s UK Operations, says "Watkiss is a great product but they were a relatively small company. Now that product has the backing of the whole Plockmatic organisation with worldwide distribution, sales and support so we are really able to expand the sales channel for it."

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