{"id":629,"date":"2017-10-23T22:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rollem.spotlightdev.co.uk\/?page_id=629"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:11:49","slug":"photobooks-calendars-and-diaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rollem.com\/applications\/photobooks-calendars-and-diaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Photobooks, calendars and diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Photobooks, Calendars and Diaries<\/h1>\n<h2>Just one Rollem line does the work of 4 guillotines, with only one operator, and has given us back our workflow.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5dtJQRhdU1k\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_119778523.jpg\" alt=\"Photobooks, Calendars and Diaries\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The market for photobooks has exploded in the last few years, and customer demand is high for perfectly finished, great value products.<\/p>\n<p>But the finishing process can be far from straightforward, with orders coming in for a range of sizes, and differing page quantities. One way to see the problem is to imagine photobook pages printed 4-up on SRA3 sheets. One of the problems is how best to arrange the customers\u2019 pages onto those sheets. Pre-press has to arrange the pages in the correct order, so that when the sheets are guillotined into four, four stacks are produced, one for each customer. 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