Morgana targets US market with UK launches

Post-press kit manufacturer Morgana hopes to make further inroads in the US by launching two machines to the American market at Print 2013 in Chicago.

The System 2000S, which was launched in the UK at May's North Print & Pack, produces booklets of up to 120 pages and is fed by an ACF510 hybrid feeder.

The 2000S is capable of feeding pre-collated sets from a digital print engine, collating litho printed sections or combining both into a finished book product.

The heavy-duty bookletmaking section comes with wire stitching heads, fore-edge trimmer, and the Morgana Squarefold 2000.

The other US debut on the Morgana stand will be the DigiBook 300 PUR perfecter, which was launched in the UK and the rest of Europe at Drupa 2012. The unit can produce up to 300 A4 books per hour.

"The kit is extremely quick and effective to set-up and shut down – ideal for very short runs of PUR bound books," said a spokesman.

"Chicago is normally good for Morgana. Small-format digital printing is a predominant market in the US, with lots of ma and pa print shops. Morgana are therefore perfectly placed to market optimum pieces of finishing kit."

Print 13 runs from 8 to 12 September.