Article: Old-style binding, new-style delivery.(Book Manufacturing, Production & Technology Report, Part One of Four)(includes related articles on Midwest Edition's unusual bookbinding jobs)(commercial bookbinder Midwest Editions Inc)

A short-run edition bindery gears up for the marketplace's new demands with individual service and an array of production capabilities.

Dramatic changes in the book printing business are being felt in the bookbinding industry as well. Cost pressures, shorter run lengths, quicker turnaround time, and new equipment are affecting small and large book binderies.

Midwest Editions, a small 50-employee shop located in its own 50,000-sq-ft building on the outskirts of Minneapolis, is one such book bindery. It was established in 1970, when Lance Johnson and a partner purchased a bankrupt book bindery and renamed it. The firm serves printers and publishers, ...

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