Making it Perfect with Riso

Since 1986, Riso, Inc. (Booth 1248) has repeatedly developed the world’s best solutions for a variety of specialized sectors in document printing and duplicating, providing the type of technology typically available on high-cost equipment at a significantly lower price. As a pioneer and continuous innovator in ink-based print systems, RISO has addressed a market niche in the printing industry with their Perfect Binder accessory.

Combining power and versatility in a surprisingly small footprint, the RISO Perfect Binder converts a ComColor X1 Series printer into a self-contained, high-speed book manufacturing solution for both short runs and high-volume book production. RISO’s inkjet Perfect Binder Solution, composed of a RISO ComColor X1 9150 inkjet printer and its new Perfect Binder accessory, prints, collates, trims and binds full color books up to 600 pages (300 sheets of 20 lb. bond) with ease, speed and efficiency – meeting or exceeding the production needs of most digital book printers. RISO’s in-line system also enables full color printing of the covers and pages, with the ability to insert pre-printed covers and pages as well. The RISO Perfect Binder incorporates the advantages of inkjet technology and the production speed of the ComColor X1 Series printers into an industry that can’t always accommodate smaller printing runs. The high speed, fully automatic RISO Perfect Binder is a new accessory for the X1 Series, broadening its range of applications and building on the company’s history of technological innovation. It is engineered for use in a wide range of industries and settings, such as corporate, commercial and educational environments.

RISO’s Perfect Binder Solution revolutionizes the way the industry processes short-run and on-demand book printing. Unlike more conventional perfect bind workflows, which can require several pieces of specialized equipment to be configured together, taking up valuable time and floor space, the RISO Perfect Binder Solution performs all the steps of printing, adjusting, trimming, gluing, forming and finishing all in one compact, self-contained package that fits within an 8’ x 12’ corner of your print facility. With this full-color cut sheet inkjet solution, on-demand printings and short runs can be completed without massive reconfigurations of equipment, which cost printers time and money before production can even begin.

The Perfect Binder easily accommodates varying book thicknesses up to 300 sheets / 600 pages (1.5mm to 30mm), and offers the flexibility of printing covers as part of the book production, or inserting pre-printed covers and pages as needed. An intuitive cover layout program simplifies cover design, including spine printing, and a print preview function enables complete pre-print editing to reduce errors.

In addition to its small size, the Perfect Binder is extremely fast – its cut-sheet inkjet print engine can produce spot color or full color at speeds of up to 150 ppm – and trims and forms at an impressive speed. The solution has been clocked making full color, 100-page 8 1/2” x 11” books from electronic file at a rate of about one a minute. On-demand orders for perfect bound books can literally be turned around in an hour, and short runs addressed in a fraction of the time that more traditional workflows would require.