Buhrs was also in Hall 14 at drupa. The family owned and managed engineering company was demonstrating automated inserting and mailing systems that incorporated inkjet barcode and addressing applications. The inkjet heads can be from a variety of suppliers including Kodak Versamark, Domino, Videojet and Imaje.

On 9 June at drupa Buhrs announced a huge sale six Buhrs BB700 Inserters to Advanced Image Direct in Fullerton, California in the USA. The six new inserters complement five similar Buhrs machines already owned and operated by Advanced Image Direct. Regarding the purchase of the six additional inserters, AI Direct’s president Frank Verrill said, “Our very positive experience with Buhrs products, and the BB700 specifically, led us to standardize on this workhorse product, and to add six more machines to the five we installed in late 2007. The machine operates at very high speeds and accommodates a broad array of envelope sizes and configurations, but we are particularly impressed with the intelligence built into the Buhrs. The BB700 enables us to change over quickly from one job to another, and the intelligence of the Buhrs BB700 enables us to fully integrate read and print capability, which enables us to keep pace with our upstream digital imaging devices and maintain mail integrity throughout job runs. Adding the six new Buhrs inserter systems will increase our capacity to 80 million pieces per month.”

The Buhrs BB700 envelope inserting system is servo driven, and an upgrade from 14,000 to 16,000 products an hour was introduced at drupa 2008. Available with rotary, shuttle and friction feeders, the Buhrs BB700 provides the ultimate in flexibility for high-speed mailing.

Buhrs also manufactures systems for film and paper wrapping, envelope inserting and fulfilment. Buhrs systems prepare media products, such as magazines, newspapers, documents, direct mail products, books, videos, compact discs and cards, for distribution. We foresee Indian publishers using these systems for inline wrapping and labeling of magazines as they emerge from the stitching line and trimming line.