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Watkiss SpineMaster

Spine-forming module converting stitched booklets to SquareBackLegacy model, fully supported

The Watkiss SpineMaster is a spine-forming module converting stitched booklets to SquareBack. It runs sheets from 80 × 120 mm up to 250 × 350 mm. It runs at up to 1,750 booklets/h. No longer in production — we still supply tooling for machines in service.

Each job you run comes with its own specific problems, and more often than not the culprit is found on the tooling shafts. The standard finishing tools supplied with your machine aren’t accurate, versatile or delicate enough for the results you and your customers expect. At Technifold we design and build bespoke, retro-fit premium finishing tools to solve both common and complex finishing problems.

Your SpineMaster, finished properly.

Patented in the UK · 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries · since 1999

Watkiss SpineMaster squareback finisher with spine detail insets — official product render

What we solve

Problems we eliminate on the SpineMaster

Machine-direction creasingCrease down the web at full press speed. No offline pass, no rotary die registration risk, no slowing the line for finishing.See how we eliminate it →

Micro-perforation on the webTear-off work perforated down the web, flat enough to keep processing and clean enough to tear by hand. Ten pitches, inline, no speed loss.See how we eliminate it →

Every finish, one cassetteCrease, score, perforate, cut and kiss-cut in any combination across the web. One retro-fitted cassette, reconfigured per job.See how we eliminate it →

Custom & OEM toolingA part that is obsolete, impossible to source, or never existed. If it is a wheel, a blade, a rib or a holder that touches paper or board, we can probably make it.See how we eliminate it →