"The reason we only went for one tower is because two-tower set-ups are typically used for much longer runs. The company spent around £30,000 on the new set-up. "Duplo also has a heavier-duty machine, although it was quite a step-up in price," adds Seeley.ĭecision made, MPD ordered a Horizon SPF/FC-200A bookletmaking system, configured with a single, 10-bin collator tower running inline to a stitching, folding and fore-edge trimming unit, and operated via a colour touchscreen. We knew people who have the Horizon and it seemed a better option for the price and overall package, and it was a more robust build," he explains. "Our digital side is growing and we wanted something to cope with a bigger workload. When the time came to replace the old bookletmaker, Seeley considered the options from both Duplo and Horizon. Last year also marked another switch for the company, which had been using a Duplo bookletmaking system. We loved the Indigos, but the iGen4’s larger-format sold it," explains Seeley. Having been one of the early users of the Indigo press back in the mid 1990s, last year involved a big change for MPD when it switched supplier with the installation of an iGen4 from Xerox.
The company’s clients include corporates, agencies, motor manufacturers, colleges and charities.Īnd MPD even takes its print kit on the road, producing on-demand posters and gift items on its Canon wide-format printer at the annual Air Tattoo for client the RAF Charitable Trust. Nowadays, says Seeley, MPD is "very heavily into digital printing", producing a raft of personalised and short-run products including posters, mugs and promotional banners, alongside marketing material such as brochures and leaflets. Managing director Graham Seeley is a former print buyer at WH Smith, who made the move from buyer to print provider when the opportunity came up to run MPD on behalf of its co-founders, FS Moore and Print Direction.įour years later, he bought the company and became managing director.
The 28-year-old company started life as a litho printing business, and still has the single-colour GTO that formed part of the original set-up, alongside its modern five- and four-colour B2 offset presses. When printing pages on both sides that are to be bound, this lets the user specify a wider margin and account for the space needed on the inside of the page for the binding.More pertinently for the purposes of this article, it is also the location of MPD Offset, a far less baffling proposition altogether. If selected, the left margin becomes the "Inside" margin and the right margin will becomes the "Outside" margin.
The default selection is normal margins which means that all pages are printed with the same left margins and the same right margins throughout the document. A new option in the Page Setup dialog allows you to choose the type of margins you want, and to use them for the entire document, from a given page forward, or on only the current page. This is most commonly used when printing pages in Landscape orientation.Ĭonfigure the margins. Flip on Short Edge: the document will print double-sided and the pages will flip on the short side.
This is the choice normally made when the pages are printed in Portrait orientation.
#Print on short side or long side bookletcreator windows#
(To review the printer's settings, in Windows click Start | Control Panel | Devices and Printers).
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