The Martin Yale SP100 gives the marketplace a high speed scoring and perforating machine designed to be used by small or medium organizations and businesses, printers and professional organizations. We recently took a close look at the SP100, and will share with you in this report what we consider to be the machine s strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths:
1. We were happy to find that the SP100 is a very versatile scoring and perforating machine in that it can easily handle every stock of paper from 20lb bond to 110lb index. We were also impressed to find that it can run sheets from three and a half to twelve inches wide, making it the ideal machine for creating brochures, admission tickets, tent style place cards and business cards. That gives the user a lot of flexibility and is just one of the many features that makes the SP100 a great choice for a copy or printing shop.
2. One of the great features of the SP100 is that it can do its scoring and perforating concurrently, which can really help the average user cut down on production time. The machine ships with one scoring wheel and a single 14 tooth perforating wheel, but there are several other custom wheels available for the machine, so you can customize all you like.
3. We found that setting up the SP100 was a remarkably easy process. The special hubs made placing the wheels as simple as could be, and that is not always the case with this type of machine.
Weaknesses:
1. One limitation that you will want to be aware of is that the SP100 is designed so that the largest size sheet it can process is twelve inches. That means that the SP100 may not be the ideal machine for such jobs as perforating legal size documents (such as church bulletins) or for scoring binding covers when you are binding documents that are letter size or larger. For applications like these, you will need to look into purchasing a larger scoring machine like the 3800AP or the 3800FC.
2. Because the SP100 utilizes a wheel system to do its scoring, if you attempt to process high coverage digitally printed documents, you could experience some cracking of the pages. If you are going to score documents that have been printed on digital equipment on a regular basis, you may want to look into a scoring machine that uses a compression system rather than wheels. Of course, this is only a problem if you need to create a score line across a digitally printed area.
3. Unfortunately, this machine does not have feed rollers or a feed tray. That means that you will need to hand feed each item that you want to score or perforate into the machine. For short run applications that is probably fine. However, large projects may be quite tedious with this system.
Recommendation:
For smaller printers and copy shops, as well as churches, nonprofits and businesses, the Martin Yale SP100 represents a great solution for the vast majority of their scoring and perforating needs. For such short run jobs as tent style business cards, cards for special occasions such as weddings, or tickets, the SP100 performs admirably. If, however, you will be needing to process sheets that are wider than twelve inches, or sheets that are digitally printed, you may want to search for a larger capacity scoring and perforating machine that has a few more features in its arsenal.
Author Resource:
Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for http://www.mybinding.com .He has written over 500 articles on binding machines,binding covers,binders,laminators,binding supplies,laminating supplies,paper handling equipments,index tabs, and shredders.
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