German book printer CPI is to link manroland’s inline finishing system to a new HP digital web press.

The company’s FormerLine book block solution is being teamed with a new Rima lift-collator at the Clausen & Bosse print site in Leck, taking over finishing of mostly four-colour books in the second half of this year.

manroland web systems sales manager Mathias Klaus says that with open interfaces, his company’s finishing solutions are “comfortable” within a workflow involving different press makers. CPI is already a manroland customer with several offset presses from the Augsburg maker.

CPI managing director Guenter Pecher says the system offers fast job changes within a highly automated finishing workflow, excellent efficiency and optimised paper usage. Convincing is its “groundbreaking” web lead in which the web runs over single formers, with no single sections having to be cut off and handled.

With its integrated workflow, the FormerLine can process catalogues and advertising flyers as well as books. It has a web speed of up to 300 metres/minute, with cutoff variable between 145-457 mm and a maximum web width of 1067 mm.

At CPI, the web will run over three formers, producing up to 8000 glued book blocks an hour.