As in any company from printing field, the very first thing to get would be a computer to plate system to help the work of the people from pre-press office. After the PC to plate system, the list should comprise a printing machine in four groups with the printing format related with the amount of editions and with the amount of issued the specific publishing homes edit per week. The printing apparatus must always have a perfector to guarantee an increased productivity. Then, the following totally mandatory gear is a folding machine for the book interior.

It's good to search for a folding machine which must have a cross and parallel folding to be well placed to fold posters inserted in the book. We must not neglect the part of book finishing. Here it is well to grasp that the book segment that we wish to reach is. For the processing of the book interior from the segment of collection books or high worth books we will provide our printing house with a device for stitching, book back gluing gear, book block nipping and smashing press, book forming machine, gear for stamping the covers with metallic foil.

For the processing of the book interior for the common books, we particularly need a book forming gluing and jacketing machine. For the book jacket, it'd be handy, for covering the great market majority, to get a bending machine, a laminating machine and eventually serigraphic equipment with a little UV dryer to be well placed to make a selective UV varnishing at the cover. Would be positively obligatory a guillotine for cutting the sheets, with maximum format associated with the printing machine format.

A three-knifes trimmer would also be totally obligatory for give the final format of the book. For the mags the publishing homes issue for advertising the latest reports, a line of eyeleting would also be necessary, and for the smaller dimensioning of the printing house, only 1 eyeleteer with 1 or 2 eyeleting head would be obligatory. For the book production, the market also has complete book lines which comprise: the printing machine, the folding machine, the binding machine, and machine for book jacketing, the cover lamination kit, the three-knifes trimmer or any other combinations from the equipments discussed till now.

There are intensely many kinds of hardware necessary; there is a large quantity of work so as to do a book, but the satisfaction when you see it on the shelf is large.