Cutting machines and guillotines have become automated material handling, preparation and finishing systems. Perfecta’s drupa demonstration was essentially a robotic show of picking up stacks of paper, moving it to the cutting bed, aligning and jogging the stack, moving it for the first cut, cutting, and then automatic moving the paper to the next programmed cut. This was all done sequentially by a robot with strong steel arms and a very gentle grip that could lift paper stacks, jog them for alignment and pick up one edge of the stack to turn it 90 degrees for the next trim. The robotics of course would work equally well after printing for sequential trimming and finishing. The demo had drupa visitors spellbound – it was clear that this is the future.

While the robotic demonstration took paper handling to the next step as far as material handling and finishing automation, many Indian printers have reached the manually assisted and controlled jogger stacker stage for preparation of continuous paper piles. Perfecta’s Indian dealers Indo-Polygraph who won the award as the best dealers last year continue to sell the 115 TS model at a good pace. Deals around and at drupa include those of Sundaram Multi Pap Limited for four Perfecta-115 TS cutting machines. Sundaram are merely adding these to the four Perfecta-115 HTVCs they bought and installed in the previous year. Other drupa time customers of the 115-TS include Print House who bought two, Aftah, Orient Press Limited, and Vakils and Sons who each bought one.