Much Needed Maintenance on the Horizon VAC 100 Collator and Fastback Tape Binder

[@jesusgerardopozadazendejas7413]

Hello Dan Your video is very complete and I really learned new things like repairing the sensors. Thank you very much for sharing this information with us.

[@miketheprintman]

Those tape bound books are perfect for schools and universities. There are a few shops up in Berkeley, near me, next to University of California that do a ton of these things. A great little business for short term books that get use for a year or less.

[@davidabbott7012]

I teach at a local community college in California and we had to have our print services department tape bind some books that we are using when we teach in the state prisons as they came to use as loose leaf, so needed to be bound before we could loan them to our students as we can't just but them in binders for obvious reasons. The tape binding is okay, but students had issues with the pages coming out, which was a frustration of mine, I would just tell my students to put the pages back in where the belonged so they wouldn't get lost. The books that I had that were just printed on plain copy paper that were tape bound seemed to hold up better as the pages weren't glossy.

[@justaprinter]

Interesting. Tape binding certainly has a place.

[@HenryLoenwind]

That amount of glue (or lack of...) looks like this would give you single-use books unless you staple/rivet/sow the pages before binding them.

[@niteman555]

Regarding the lack of glue strength, I've seen people online write about just buying additional glue strips to add when doing the binding. Then there's this strange but cool dude on /diy/ who had stacks in their basement(?) filled with books bound with duck tape, some dating back to the 70s

[@HenryLoenwind]

@@niteman555 Stapling and then putting fabric tape over the spine to cover it and the staples was a common thing in the 70s and 80s with access to xerox machines and computer printers. I probably have such books in some boxes somewhere---I don't throw away books ever.

[@realmadrid1417]

We also have 3 of those Fastback Tape Binder, like you said, it's a fast and cheap alternative to an perfect bound book or spiral binding. Most of the time we use it for schools.

[@justaprinter]

Good point, as long as the customer is happy with the quality!

[@realmadrid1417]

@@justaprinter if you have to read the book a lot or it has to lay flat, it's not what you are looking for.. but most of the time the students just need something to drop of there thesis .. they won't even open the binding :)

[@horizonfinishing]

Awesome Video!

[@deejay8ch]

15:10 Dan's maintenance procrastination mantra - "Just fix it already." 😂👍

[@justaprinter]

I need to remind myself of this! :)

[@NETKC]

That genius how to fix the Horizon collator. I work for a printing company that has a Horizon collator and when those parts that you fixed break we just order new ones and throw out the bad ones. But I totally get it that you are a small company and can’t always buy new parts. Very genius. I think I will talk to my boss about this. Maybe score some points lol😄. Thanks!

[@justaprinter]

Yup, I like to repair when I can.

[@gobofragli]

For hard covers, try Fastbind case makers - easy and fast for small batches! They desktop perfect binders too. Makes soft and hard covers.

[@justaprinter]

I did see those hard covers. The Fasback can do some neat stuff!

[@DEVIL-tb8xt]

Love from kanpur uttar pradesh india i am 16 and your biggest fan watching you at 12 in the night

[@justaprinter]

Awesome! Glad to hear!

[@toddsikes7292]

i have run millions of items through my horizon collator. you can move that motor over as much as you want but if it is a tray that you use all the time, your best bet it to replace the plastic teeth with one from a tray you don't use. just the weight from the paper if you ever use something like 80# or 60# will cause it to skip every time. the suggestion of 3d printing is not a bad idea

[@justaprinter]

Luckily I don't think the teeth were striped at all. It lust looked like it because of grease in the teeth. Time will tell though!

[@jenniferjelke2502]

While I don't print/bind books, I do all of my own service on my Xerox machines. I would've thought that the 3-hole punch would be a modular unit. I.E. - If it doesn't work, then it can be removed via the front. Additionally, I would have suspected that the wiring harness that you disconnected has either a pass through or a feedback loop going through it.

[@justaprinter]

I don't know much about it. It's my understanding that this particular finisher can come bare bones with just a stacker. Or you can add on a punch or stitcher.

[@jenniferjelke2502]

@@justaprinter Well at timestamp 2:43, what do you think all of those green knobs & levers are for? They indicate CRU's or customer replacement units. In my Xerox, there's a wiring harness connector. Simply put, it slides right in & you reboot your machine.

[@corgibon]

Hello, sir. I have a issue with vac-110a. The panel always show system error 02. Can you teach me how to fix this problem? I follow the operation manual to tune off the power. But it still not fix the issue. I look forward to your reply, thank you.

[@x_x_w_]

For that VAC... Looks like 3D printing could help you make replacement parts cheaply for the bin movement, just in case that one bins teeth are too rounded off long term.

[@justaprinter]

Good point. I think it will run fine as is but time will tell.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Not too sure about that. Those teeth are quite shallow and they need to hold the weight of stack of paper. The original looks like nylon on the motor side and fibre-reinforced ABS on the other. So unless you print in metal, you won't get the needed strength for it to be durable enough.

[@mrwonk]

What about pulling the 3-hole piece from the black & white machine and sliding it into one of your color presses?

[@justaprinter]

I would have, but then I would have lost the post inserter on my 1070.

[@frowertrampton7148]

Dude!!! What county are you located? I’m located in Santa Rosa county.

[@justaprinter]

I'm located in Pennsylvania.

[@michalpolrolniczak]

For a want to be book printer would you recommend getting new low end digital press or mid-high end used one ?

[@justaprinter]

Whatever make financial sense and what is available. I think the person using the machine and making decisions is more important.

[@faran163]

Recommendation for a decent perfect binder? Need it for Fashion catalogs

[@justaprinter]

Whatever you can find close by you. I have had good luck with cp bourg and I hear the standard horizon binders are nice too.

[@miller745]

Is it not worth ordering a spare part for when it eventually fails? as the current one has less teeth than a witchdoctors necklace!

[@justaprinter]

Luckily I don't think the teeth were striped at all. It lust looked like it because of grease in the teeth. Time will tell though!

[@KABODTBASS1]

Good day everyone. Please can someone direct me to where I can get toners for Konica Minolta c3070 the original one please. I have been unable to access good toners for a while, the ones am using now depletes the developer. This is urgent please

[@justaprinter]

Alibaba is about the only place.

[@richardnettina3154]

We usually perfect bind books, but use fastbacks for certain customers. Usually on very small runs. I’ve never heard of a problem with the quality. They just look very ugly and aren’t cost effective after a couple hundred.

[@justaprinter]

God to know. I might need to start offering it to some customers.

[@williamgui3930]

hello is there a discord group or server for printing?

[@justaprinter]

Not that I'm aware of.

[@williamgui3930]

@@justaprinter Ok, By the way, I'm 23 years old doing digital printing, focusing on A3+ Label stickers, I'm from Indonesia, I'm happy with your content, thank you for sharing your lessons.