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input jobs, and monitor jobs that need
to be rerun. They are trained on routine
maintenance procedures and they also
get some training on preventive maintenance."
Kern PageMailer Inline
Envelope Converter
This high-speed machine from Kern
USA is capable of doing 18,000 or 30,000
pieces an hour, says the company's director, marketing Ryan McManus. "There's
no one type of customer that would use
it," he reports. "Many customers buying
the PageMailer are service bureaus."
Cost savings and application benefits
are among the advantages of the PageMailer. "With traditional equipment,
you must have your stock and your
envelopes, and this converts them into
one process using just one roll or cut
sheet of paper," McManus says. "If companies are using pressure-seal forms,
there's a huge benefit to using the
PageMailer. It does the gluing, perforating, and folding all inline, and doesn't
require any special paper.
"The PageMailer lets you do a doublesided postcard, leaving the sides open
and gluing the top, and you can mail
that at the postcard rate. So there are the
postage savings in addition to saving on
materials and inventory costs."
Customers can use their own composition software for designing mail pieces.
Kern has its own proprietary software,
mailFactory, to manage the production
process of the PageMailer. For document
engineering, the customer can purchase
Ai-RPM PROStream software from Kern,
McManus says.
PageMailer is often used for "utility-type applications," he adds. These
include sending a PIN number, providing
account information, and other one-way
mailings that require no response. "But
there's the dual benefit of using it in
marketing applications for postcards," he
says. "Our customers are able to sell both
transactional and marketing products
produced on PageMailer."
W + D North America 234D
The 234D is one element—the inkjet
overprint portion—of the company's
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Timos. The product has the ability "to
take a standard white envelop from anyone and overprint it with inkjet imaging," Schipke says. "We can personalize
it, do corner cut work and do variable
data work at very high production volumes. As the market evolves, we're seeing
more people want to get into inkjet to
simplify their workflow and be faster to
market; to basically put through more
work on a single machine. It will print
high volumes of mail with digital print."
Operators using the 234D require an
understanding of file management on a
computer, and a comprehension of color
theory or color management, Schipke
says. "Operators don't have to possess
the same skills they had with an offset
or flexo press," he adds. "They need to
understand color theory and ways to
alter color in a CMYK world, and what
CMYK does well and doesn't do well." ◗◗
Something extra:
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envelope converter in action:
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