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The Espresso Book Machine® is a fully integrated patented book making machine which can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books with 4-color cover indistinguishable from their factory made versions.

The EBM Version 2.0 is modular in 2 parts and the core unit measures approximately 2.7 feet deep, 3.2 feet wide and 4.5 feet high. The EBM 2.0 is available with a high speed (105 page per minute) black and white printer or a 35 page per minute printer.

The EBM will print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes with a high speed printer model. Production cost is a penny a page and minimal human intervention is required for operation. The trim size of a book is infinitely variable between 8.25” x 10.5” and 4.5” x 5.0” and the EBM Version 2.0 can bind up to 830 pages.

Routine intervention is needed for such tasks as refilling paper trays and emptying the trim receptacle tray. Occasionally, a paper jam will occur but the frequency is on par with any high quality laser imaging machine, perhaps once or twice a day under heavy use. Once cleared, books will continue to print from the page where they left off.

Consumables used by the EBM are paper, cover stock, toner, ink, and glue. The EBM is UL listed and well below OSA guidelines. For easy transport it is modular in two parts and can be reassembled at point of use.

EBMs are located in dozens of locations worldwide. More locations are coming soon.

On Demand Books believes that the Espresso Book Machine will be of high value for educational institutions and libraries, public libraries, bookstores, self-publishing, multi-lingual environments and in many other global point of sale or point of need locations.

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/EBM_Brochure.pdf