Bindery & Finishing Services in Blackwood, NJ

A print job isn't finished when it comes off the press: folding, cutting, binding, and trimming are what turn flat sheets into a booklet, a catalog, or a mailer that holds together. PMC runs its bindery in-house and staffs it 24/7, which means a job doesn't sit waiting for a finishing vendor to have capacity; it moves straight from the press floor to bindery in the same Blackwood, NJ building.

The department covers saddle stitching up to 96 pages, perfect binding, case binding, and spiral binding in both Wire-O and plastic coil, plus die cutting. Equipment includes three Polar 137 cutters (57"), two MBO B26 folders plus 30" and 26" Stahl folders, a Heidelberg cylindrical die-cut press, two Muller 6-pocket stitcher-trimmers, a Panda perfect binder with a Wohlenberg stacker-trimmer, and a Pineberry 5-station collator for assembling multi-part jobs.

Because bindery sits between the press and the mail shop on the same floor, finishing decisions (how a piece folds, how it's bound, whether it needs a die-cut shape) can be coordinated with the print and mail teams instead of relayed through a third party. For catalogs, magazines, manuals, and booklets that need to hold up in the mail, that in-house, always-staffed bindery is the step that keeps a job on schedule.

Multi-part jobs also run through bindery before they reach fulfillment or the mail shop: a Pineberry 5-station collator assembles multi-piece sets, hole drills prepare pages for binders or ring binding, and an Advantage L-728 shrinkwrap system with an auto feeder packages finished sets for shipment or storage. That means a job that starts as flat printed sheets can come out of bindery already collated, bound, and wrapped — ready to move directly into PMC's fulfillment and warehousing operation or straight into the mail stream, without a separate finishing vendor in between.