Welcome to www.cfsinternational.com! Online home to Creative Finishing Systems! Machinery suppliers to the book, binder, and paper/cardboard converting industries.
Typical Long Run Editions continue to decline from quantities of 50,000-200,000 during the 1960-80's to quantities of 10,000-30,000 books per run today. First Offset Printing, and now Digital Presses have enabled commercial printers to further reduce prepress times by direct image to plate or image to paper methods. Thus, the declining Edition quantities have rendered the standard hardcover bookbinding machines of the last generation impotent. Faced with a decision to purchase very expensive, new Casebinding Line equipment, book manufacturers have sought a variety of automation solutions. Creative Finishing Systems' long history of supplying Long Run Edition machines can be of help to those companies planning to add a single machine process or an automated line. Frequently, the best selection of machinery involves a study of reconditioned machines in combination with new models to achieve the correct book flow through the plant. We offer used equipment Brokering, Reconditioning, Full Rebuilding, Equipment Appraisals, and Trade-in services.