For our fall pilgrimage, we will tour of Superior Packaging and Finishing, which operates from two buildings with 200,000 ft² of space and 200 staff. Superior specializes in custom solutions for programmatic clients by managing the complete food chain from website development, order capture, product manufacture, and delivery. They manufacture books, record sleeves, packaging, and specialty services with order sizes from 1 to millions. 

The tour will include their pressroom with an HP large format 6-color latex press, two Indigo 15000 digital presses, a Landa S10 Nanopress (a full Kamori offset press with Landa inkjet technology enabling printing of 6500 unique sheets per hour at 1200 dpi and up to 7 colors), a Heidelberg 4-color Speedmaster, a Heidelberg 6-color Speedmaster, and a Heidelberg 10-color Speedmaster with roll feed printing at 18,000 sheets per hour. You will see their structural design lab where they create custom products for packaging and book applications, as well as the bindery with state of the art, cutting, folding with robotic stacking, die-cutting, in-line folding and gluing, saddle stitching, mechanical binding, spot UV and foil embellishment, foil stamping, Smyth sewing with robotic stacking, case making, perfect binding, hard cover casing-in, shrink wrapping and packing.