This presentation will discuss the importance of finishing technologies that are used for the digitally printed documents.

The increased use of digital printing systems has caused the necessity for the development of new finishing and binding systems for the documents that are digitally printed. The finishing systems that have been developed for this purpose, have their own specific characteristics that can be described as follows:

The manufacturing of the systems is based on the factor that the documents have smaller dimensions than traditionally printed sheets.

The production is done under the consideration of processing loose sheets of paper rather, than folded signatures.

There is the necessity for manufacturing finishing systems where saddle stitching, perfect binding and trimming must be combined.

There is the requirement for quality binding in comparison with traditional finishing systems.

Quite important issue on finishing technologies for digital printing systems is the requirement for digitally printed documents to be as good, look as «professional» and function as the traditionally finished ones.