Overview: The GBC Digicoil is ahigh volume automatic spiral coil inserting machine that is designedfor organizations that need to bind thousands of documents per weekwith color coil binding.It is designed to automate theinserting, cutting and crimping process for your documents. This makesit possible to finish a book using spiral coil binding in a matter ofseconds.Ideally paired with a high speed auto punching machine, the Digicoil is the fastest method for binding spiral coil documents. Strengths / Features: TheGBC Digicoil offers incredible speed and productivity. In fact, you canbind up to 450 books per hour using 10mm coil and up to 250 books perhour using 30mm coil. All you need to do is place your document ontothe machine and feed your coil into the side of the machine. TheDigicoil will insert the coil through the holes and will cut and crimpthe ends of your spine giving you a fully finished Wholesale color coated steel coil professionaldocument.

This machine is capable of handling a large varietyof document sizes. It can be used for items with a binding edge assmall as 4.25" or as long as 14.5". This means that it is compatiblewith letter size, legal size, A4, A6, landscape and half letter sizedocuments.The Digicoil is designed for use with coils thatare as small as 8mm and as large as 33mm in diameter. Each size of coiluses a special set of spine formers that come with the machine.Switching the size of coil that you are going to use only takes abouttwo minutes. You simply need to install the correct spine formers andset the knife height adjustment. Weaknesses / Limitations: Thismachine is only designed to work with 4:1 pitch spiral coil. It cannotbe used with 5:1, 3:1 or 2.5:1 pitch spirals. For most organizationsthis is not a huge issue since four to one pitch coil is by far themost common type used for binding documents. Still, this is animportant limitation to note.The Digicoil is also limited inthe sizes of documents that it can bind. The largest diameter of coilthat this machine can accept is 33mm.

The smallest diameter of coilthat it can accept is 8mm. However, the Digicoil is not capable ofhandling all of the sizes between 8mm and 33mm. It includes spineformers for the most common coil sizes between these two diameters(mostly even numbered sizes). For most organizations the differencebetween 1mm is not a huge issue. However, this can be an issue for someusers who are especially picky about the sizes of coil that they use.Inorder to use the Digicoil your paper must be punched with a 4:1 pitchoval hole 0.2475 hole pattern. Attempting to use this machine with anyother hole pattern will not work. Fortunately, dies are available forall of the GBC automated binding punches as well as their modularinterchangeable die systems. However, dies for this hole pattern areusually more expensive than standard round hole spiral coil die sets.Witha pricetag over $25,000 this machine only makes sense for the highestvolume spiral coil binding users.

Users who need to bind a few thousandbooks per month will probably have a hard time justifying the ROI ofthis piece of equipment. However, users who bind several thousanddocuments per week can probably save enough money in labor to pay forthis machine in less than a year. Recommendation: Organizationsthat need to bind thousands of documents per day or per week will findthat the return on investment offered by the Digicoil is excellent.The automated inserting, cutting and crimping offered by this machine offers amazing productivity in high volume environments.However,users who are considering this machine will want to make sure that theDigicoil can handle the sheet sizes and coil diameters that they needto use.It is also important to remember that this is only acoil inserter and it needs to be paired with either a high speed punchor pre-punched paper in order to realize its full potential forproductivity.

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