The benefits of seeing it live….

Even in the age of social media, YouTube and lightning fast communications, getting up close and personal with a machine is hard to beat.   The Muller Martini facility in Allentown, PA offers an opportunity to do just that. A state-of-the art facility for manufacturing, and our main hub for…

Even in the age of social media, YouTube and lightning fast communications, getting up close and personal with a machine is hard to beat.   The Muller Martini facility in Allentown, PA offers an opportunity to do just that. A state-of-the art facility for manufacturing, and our main hub for…

Labor and Technology: Crossroads or Turning Point?

Printing is experiencing one of the top five steepest declines in available labor throughout industry. While it would be easy to view that as a dark reality to a business supposedly in decline, NOT SO FAST!   Resulting from contraction and acquisition, fewer commercial printers are sharing a healthy volume…

Printing is experiencing one of the top five steepest declines in available labor throughout industry. While it would be easy to view that as a dark reality to a business supposedly in decline, NOT SO FAST!   Resulting from contraction and acquisition, fewer commercial printers are sharing a healthy volume…

Community Newspaper Profits from Addition of Presto Saddle Stitcher

Tucked away in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is The Free Press, a local community newspaper located in Edinburg, Virginia.  Since 1985, Keith Stickley has published The Free Press, which is dedicated to keeping readers informed about local events and government.   In the face of declining revenues in the newspaper industry,…

Tucked away in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is The Free Press, a local community newspaper located in Edinburg, Virginia.  Since 1985, Keith Stickley has published The Free Press, which is dedicated to keeping readers informed about local events and government.   In the face of declining revenues in the newspaper industry,…

MM Inspect and MM Select

Like most customers, Consolidated Press in Seattle, Washington, has in-house maintenance programs that keep equipment in good running condition. However, when they noticed production numbers were off on their Primera and Bravo saddle stitchers, they had the equipment analyzed using Muller’s MMInspect program. MMInspect uncovered areas where repairs were needed.…

Like most customers, Consolidated Press in Seattle, Washington, has in-house maintenance programs that keep equipment in good running condition. However, when they noticed production numbers were off on their Primera and Bravo saddle stitchers, they had the equipment analyzed using Muller’s MMInspect program. MMInspect uncovered areas where repairs were needed.…

Protecting Your Investment

Knowing that the runway to continue to put Ink on Paper for most newspapers is AT LEAST 10 years, we need to keep our existing equipment running efficiently, if full replacement is not an option.   Centralization and consolidation of newspaper printing facilities into common locations is continuing at a…

Knowing that the runway to continue to put Ink on Paper for most newspapers is AT LEAST 10 years, we need to keep our existing equipment running efficiently, if full replacement is not an option.   Centralization and consolidation of newspaper printing facilities into common locations is continuing at a…

March Madness

Well, it may be March, but college basketball does NOT have a monopoly on “madness”. With our year-end successes, we are in the midst of an installation frenzy that includes five (5) fully-equipped perfect binding lines that have the capacity to produce almost 23 million books per week, per shift. …

Well, it may be March, but college basketball does NOT have a monopoly on “madness”. With our year-end successes, we are in the midst of an installation frenzy that includes five (5) fully-equipped perfect binding lines that have the capacity to produce almost 23 million books per week, per shift. …

THE BOOK MARKET RETURNS!!!!

The North American book market is currently in full swing and healthy recovery following several years of marked uncertainty.  The impending “death of the traditional book” was widely reported in trade publications and business journals as the introduction of digital tablets and related devices rapidly took off.  Today, however, we…

The North American book market is currently in full swing and healthy recovery following several years of marked uncertainty.  The impending “death of the traditional book” was widely reported in trade publications and business journals as the introduction of digital tablets and related devices rapidly took off.  Today, however, we…

Managing Aging Electronics on Bindery Equipment

As far back as the late 80’s, the migration towards electronic controls on bindery equipment was well underway.  Pulleys, belts and gearboxes were being replaced by motor drives.  Relays were being replaced by PLCs.  Knobs and switches were being replaced by display panels and computer screens. By the year 2000,…

As far back as the late 80’s, the migration towards electronic controls on bindery equipment was well underway.  Pulleys, belts and gearboxes were being replaced by motor drives.  Relays were being replaced by PLCs.  Knobs and switches were being replaced by display panels and computer screens. By the year 2000,…