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Testimonials

Rollem exceeds Modern Postcard's high standards!

"Our Rollem finishing equipment gives us the flexibility to offer a wide variety of finishing services that not only meet but exceed our high standards so our customers can get the most out of every direct mail campaign." - Waldo Garza, Mail & Finishing Services Manager

For over 25 years, Modern Postcard has specialized in direct mail with postcards. Their 75,000 square foot facility, located in Carlsbad, CA makes it possible to print and mail the highest quality postcards at very competitive rates. They exceed customers' expectations by combining a superior product with quick turnaround time at an affordable price. Modern Postcard takes pride in utilizing the latest innovations. Everything from start to finish is produced all in-house.

Rollem International's finishing system are an integral part of the production facility with over seven Rollem systems completing various trimming, slitting, scoring, cut-scoring and perforating of postcard and related products.

Data-Mail adds Rollem Efficiency to their finishing line

Mike Bolasevich, Bindery Manager.

Data-Mail Inc., one of the nation's largest direct mail companies, has again broken new ground with their use of variable data presses to offer their Fortune 500 customers a higher level of personalized mailing services. This full service, state-of-the-art print and mail processing facility produces 5 million pieces of mail per day.

To help produce this heavy, Data-Mail uses multiple Rollem Finishing Systems to process digitally printed mail pieces. One system alone yields 12,000 trimmed, slit, scored & perforated mailing pieces per hour. "The TR easily separates in to modules that are being used in a couple of different operations. It speaks to the versatility of the unit", states Mike Bolasevish, Bindery Manager. (shown above)

Engage Marketing Inc., Chatsworth, CA adds Rollem TR Machine

CHATSWORTH, CA — Engage Marketing Inc. is a direct mail firm in Chatsworth, CA, whose customer base includes political consulting firms, trade schools, casinos, and multi-level marketing organizations.
Finishing is important to Engage Marketing. "We are primarily a direct mail firm—folding, inserting, and maintaining sort integrity are core functions of our daily operations," notes Tom Mackel, president, Engage Marketing. "Our digital capabilities also demand versatile equipment to deliver on demand print ranging from direct mail to booklet making to short run point of purchase displays," says Mackel.
Engage Marketing actively operates five inkjet addressing systems. "Additionally, our HP Indigo 5000 addresses while printing," says Mackel. "We use USPS' IMB primarily for confirming mail tracking services. Some of our customers have their own USPS mailer ID that provides electronic address update notification from our application of intelligent barcodes on their mail. We have a detached USPS mail verification unit in our facility to maximize USPS discounts through logistical drop shipments."
"Most of our work is advertising prints," says Mackel. "The customers demand the best quality finished product we can deliver within budget." The company employs a Rollem TR to apply consistent scores and perforations for jobs that are brought into Engage's facility. "The Rollem TR functions in a short run environment, but delivers large hourly output when needed," says Mackel. "Our customers appreciate the quality greeting cards, response tear offs, and cracking prevention they receive from us," he adds.
Engage Marketing's finishing equipment provides the flexibility necessary to correct demands that may be overlooked by outside print agencies. "It is a necessary capability to have in an environment turning over thousands of short run direct mail projects," adds Mackel."

Capitol City Press, Tumwater, WA adds Rollem TR Die-Score system

TUMWATER, WA — Capitol City Press, in Tumwater, WA, has a production scenario that's more akin to the average industry shop. Its digital department has a Xerox iGen3 color press and a DocuTech 6180 black-and-white machine. The workhorses of its sheetfed offset arsenal are two six-color (40" and 28') Komori Lithrone presses. All press work is fed to a common bindery department.
The shop's digital work tends to be one-off and smaller jobs that mostly need just cutting and folding, reports Mel Caldwell, bindery manager. Postcards, brochures, posters and raffle/dance tickets are typical applications. A fair share of the work includes variable data, particularly jobs for the casinos in the area.
Its latest acquisition, a TR Die-Score system from Rollem International, may end up having a bigger payoff for digital work. Cracking and static are still the biggest challenges his department faces with finishing digital sheets. Small scoring and perfing jobs that had been tying up its MBO folders can now be offloaded to the dedicated scoring unit, he reports, and Capitol City can keep more work in-house.

Ross Bindery, Santa Fe Strings, CA recently inatalled a PB 15

Pictured here with the PB 15 are Lewis (right) and
Barry Kallman, Vice President of sales at Rollem International.

SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA � "Since the installation of the Duerselen PB 15 drilling system, our overall production and quality have improved significantly," says Ray Lewis, production coordinator at Ross Bindery, where the new machine from Rollem was installed.

"We find that this system does the work of at least three standard drills with just two operators. The Duerselen gives us the results we need as a trade bindery."

C-Point Marketing, Ft. Wayne, Indiana installed a Rollem TR-Die-Score machine

C-Point Marketing, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

C-Point Marketing, based in Ft. Wayne, Indiana recently expanded their VDP printing capability and addressed their finishing and mailing capabilities. The key requirements of the finishing system is the ability to maintain mail integrity and produce L-perf reply cards for the millions of direct mail products they produce.
Larry Lengacher, V.P. General Manager of C-Point Marketing found the ideal solution in the Rollem TR Die-Score system. "Rollem built us the entire system and what a great resource it has been", states Lengacher. Marc Thomsen, Rollem's V.P. configured a production line including the TR Die-Score System with a right angle Rollaway unit running in-line with a folder, slitting and gluing unit. Products from the press are sent to the Rollem Preload unit (in mail sort order) for feeding into the TR which removes trim, slits, scores, perforates and L-perfs in one pass—then the pieces are folded, spot glued all in one operation, delivering the product in mail sort order. "The key for us is the ability to maintain the mail integrity in the finishing process", states Lengacher. "Coming off of the Rollem line in mail sort order eliminates individual processes that may leave room for error. The ability to take our press sheet, apply five different finishing processes in one step, and deliver it directly to the mail tray (including dual mail sortation) is key. If I didn't have the Rollem system we would have to take the products from the press, move it to a perforating and scoring unit, take it to a cutter, then a folder and run it through a gluer or tabbing machine", he states. Performing multiple processes in one machine eliminates additional labor costs, improves production and increases profits.

Apollo Press of Newport News, VA installs a PB-16
Shown in photo are (from left to right) Chuck Nestor and James Kelly of Apollo Printing with Barry Kallman, V.P. Bindery Products for Rollem International.	Apollo Press of Newport News, VA recently received installation of a PB-16 Paper Drill from Rollem International. The PB-16 is a heavy duty drill with up to 15 drilling heads making it ideal for almost every application including mechanical binding patterns and multiple up work.

The Seidl Bindery of Houston, TX recently installed a PB-15 drilling system.
Bill Seidl (of Seidl's Bindery) pictured with Barry Kallman.	Bill Seidl (Seidl's Bindery in Houston, Texas) and Barry Kallman (Rollem International) shown in front of the PB-16 drill. Seidl purchased just prior to Graph Expo. The PB-16 is a fully automated feeding, jogging, drilling and delivery system for all type of drilled and collated products.

Chromatic Lithographers, Glendale Ca. purchased and installed a Rollem 42� TR System.
Scott Stegman, Bindery Forman, and Operators, Augustine Escobar and Alfredo Ochoa are being schooled on the TR by Rollem Technician, James Cruz.	Scott relates "that being a very busy Commercial Shop, turn-around time on our jobs is very critical. Even though we have close access to a Trade Die Shop, we felt it was important to keep our jobs in-house for better control and faster production without giving up quality. The TR affords us that opportunity and in fact it exceeds our expectations the more we use it."

Clear Image Printing in Glendale, Ca. recently installed a 36� Rollem TR System.
Pictured are Tony Toven, owner and Anna Maldonado, Operator.	When asked why he chose the TR Tony, said �we are a new Print Shop and I wanted to make sure that I invested in the proper equipment as I got started. I asked a lot of people in the know and it always came back to, buy a TR. It will do more for your finishing requirements than any other machine in your bindery. We have a small folder and will add a dedicated 8 Page Rollaway only to the TR and and this will preclude the need for a large folder. On our larger format sheets, we can now Score, Slit and Perforate all In-Line.�

Excell Bindery in Azusa, Ca. recently installed a 42� TR System with a Continuous Feeder.
Pictured is Jorge Ortega, President and Robert Rodriquez, Lead Operator.	Jorge states �with the closing of our Letter Press Department we wanted to make sure that we investigated and purchased the right equipment to fill this void. Being a Trade Bindery, we never know what our customers will send us so when we got a call and were asked, do you have a Rollem TR that cemented our decision. We installed the TR and are impressed with its versatility, quality and production."

Christian Broadcasting Network installs 42" Double Head TR
CBN purchased the 42" Double Head TR featuring the strike perforation feature which enables the user to program the placement of multiple perforations on a single sheet, ideal for L-Perf reply cards for various products including brochures, direct mailers, postcards sheets and much more.	Maurice Russell, Manager of Laser Operations for the Christian Broadcast network, states, "Our Rollem TR Die-Score system has already paid for itself in the short time we've owned it! I can't imagine not having a piece of equipment in our shop. Management is very happy with the increased production and the creative department loves the added design possibilities."
Shown in photo: (Maurice Russell of CBN and Allen Hammer of Rollem International)

Ultragraphics in Lancaster, PA recently installed a new Rollem TR System
Ultragraphics, Lancaster, PA	When we talked to our customers about producing high-volume runs on a digital press, the concept was to feed press sheets in one end of a system and produce finished product on the other to achieve maximum efficiency. With the purchase of the Rollem TR Die-Score System, and by utilizing our existing folding equipment, that concept became reality. The TR has met and exceeded all production speed and quality requirements. We run our digital presses three shifts a day, but the Rollem TR can easily finish the work in less than one shift. One of the real surprises to us is that we are running more and more of our short-run work on our TR. As our employees get more comfortable with the equipment, the production speed, quality and ability to perform multiple processes in-line more than justifies the set-up time. Steven D. Husson, President Lancaster Ultra-Graphics, Inc

Ross Bindery, Santa Fe Springs, CA - Installs Rollem Continuous Feed TR Die-Scoring System
George Jackson, President of Ross Bindery, located in Santa Fe Springs, CA and Barry Kallman, V.P. Sales for Rollem International, discuss the merits of the new Rollem Continuous Feed TR Die-Scoring System.	"Our production has more than doubled and we are most pleased with Rollem's new entry into the finishing market. Scoring, perforating and slitting capabilities are expanded further with the addition of the new Continuous Feeder, enabling the uninterrupted feeding with no pile run out, ideal for large, high volume runs." George states, "because of the TR's versatility, we recently used it to slit and fold all in-line because our cutters were all tied up. It seems the more we use it, the more uses we find for it."

Brown's Bindery, Columbia, South Carolina - Recently installed the PB-15 automatic feeding, jogging, drilling and delivery system

Ronnie and Paul Brown of Brown's Bindery (Columbia, SC) purchased the PB-15 automatic feeding, jogging, drilling and delivery system after seeing a trade show demonstration. They saw it at a Graph Expo last year and it blew them away!

"It's three times faster than our old drills, which weren't computerized. I can adjust this machine on the fly and the set-up time is incredibly fast", William Burritt, bindery supervisor states. Brown's specializes in perfect and mechanical binding as well as folding. "We do just about everything except die-cutting," explains Burritt. He adds that the bindery is probably in the midrange when it comes to drilling, "but when it rains it pours. We've seen everything from 10,000 books per week to 200,000." Burritt says the PB-15 is enabling the bindery to do work it couldn't previously handle such as a 28-hole book. "With this drill, it only took me a few minutes to set up the machine. With four heads, I hit it seven times and knocked out 1,000 books in 15 to 20 minutes. That probably would have taken more than an hour with the old drill. Overall, our drilling time has been cut in half with this new drill."

Emerald City Graphics, in Kent Washington, recently installed a Rollem-Duerselen PB-15 In-Line Drilling System.
Pictured are Jim Grisez, Bindery Manager and Donna Galeai, Bindery Supervisor and Operator.	"Jim states that since it was installed, we have enjoyed up to a 30% increase in production using this Revolutionary System. Because it is capable of doing 2-1, 3-1 and 4-1applicaions with the ability to drill up to 2 Inch Piles at a time as compared to a Punch, our overall productivity is way up. Further, because piles are Automatically Jogged and moved to the Drilling Heads, we are able to drill pre-collated books with Tabs so there is no need to use Slip-Sheets and re-collate. Cooling and Lubricating as well as Stroke and Spindle Speed Control allow us to do flawless drilling jobs faster than ever."

Prisma Graphic Corporation - Phoenix, Arizona, Installs Rollem TR Die-Score System
Prisma Graphic, a commercial printer recently installed its second TR Die-Score system. Tony D., Production Manager for Prisma Graphic states, "the need for the second TR system became necessary because of the high volume on our existing 36" TR system. Its versatility and flexibility handle 98% of our finishing jobs."

Regal Printers - Forked River, NJ, Installs Rollem TR Die-Score System

Regal printers, located in Forked River, NJ, recently installed a new Rollem TR Die-Scoring system with a Rollaway Right Angle.
"We use our Rollem TR for scoring, perforating and two-directional stop-perforating with the Rollaway unit. It handles every type of stock and always gives us good quality finished products. We are very pleased with its versatile—scoring, perforating, slitting and two-directional work." States Jeff LeCompte of Regal Printers.
The TR System saves on time and labor by performing five processes, with one operator. It runs in-line with inkjets, hot glue systems and 8-page folder for fully automated bindery production. Each system can be customized to meet your individual needs and most importantly, increase your bottom line profit.

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