3BillionBooks
"3BillionBooks, Inc. (3BB), is planning to become the first company to globally deploy a low cost (under $100,000), totally automatic book machine, which can produce between 15 - 20 library quality paperback books per hour, in any language, in quantities of one, without any human intervention. This technology and process, with three issued patents and four patents pending, will produce one each of ten different books at the same speed and cost as it can produce ten copies of the same book. 3BB plans to be beta-testing the machine and its related technologies through the first quarter 2002 at multiple locations, after which it plans to begin commercial use of the machines throughout the world."
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Posted by: MICHAEL SMOLENS | September 20, 2002 2:26 PM
Dear Michael Smolens
I am wondering how near the binding side of the PerfectBook machine is to completion. I know this is a hotmelt process but I have a cold glue solution called Doubleback you may have heard of, especially after Drupa 2000 when it had a lot of publicity, including a positive Seybold report. If you are still looking for a binding solution, Doubleback could be the right one.
The method is patented in US EU (12 countries) AUS and SA. I've ended agreements with two non-productive licensees since 2001, but currently a heavy duty booklet model is being prototyped by a large continental mfcr for launch next year.
After making two proof-of-principle cutsheet book models under my own steam, I am now working on a desktop version. This produces 'layflat' books direct from a digital continuous-feed printer, two at a time. Speed is dictated by the print engine from, at consumer level, desktop inkjet printer, to fully developed web press speed. I was the first digital book printer in the UK in 1987 and I have hands-on appreciation of the productivity advantage in finishing books from print to binding in one pass, with the bonus of small footprint and affordable cost.
I was awarded Br Female Innovator 2001 for the Doubleback method but I still haven't found a partner who sees the potential in digital books on demand. You and your colleagues are the gurus of pod, but may not have found a practical binding solution. Is this something we could talk about?
Regards
Ann Kritzinger
MD
Doubleback Ltd
Ash Pullan
25 City Road
London EC1Y 1AR
+44 (0)20 8341 7650
Posted by: Ann Kritzinger | November 21, 2003 4:53 AM