What it takes to create your Yearbook

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By the Numbers: Herff Jones Plant Factiods

HJ will apply nearly 100,000,000 impressions this year!

Rolls of paper for a pressIM-PRESS-IVE

The Hardware: KOMORI Super-perfector

  • Herff Jones owns 8 Komori presses
  • A Komori press is 40' long x 20' wide and 12' tall
  • It can print 13,000 sheets (two-sided) an hour

UV CoatingHOW DOES UV COATING WORK?

Using ultra violet light instead of heat, the UV curing process is a photochemical reaction. Liquid monomers and oligomers are mixed with a small percent of photoinitiators, and then exposed to UV energy. Within a few seconds, the liquid coatings harden.

Herff Jones Plants Use:

Stacks of press paper

5,000 Tons of paper

 

We also recycle 1,450 Tons of paper

2,500 pounds of press powder

50 tons of offset ink
(all quantities are approximated)

 

Stack of yearbooksWe ship thousands of schools millions of books in our spring season alone.

 

Herff Jones Yearbook shipping boxOne yearbook shipping box could contain anywhere from 46 small Size 7 hard cover books to eight large Size 9 books.

 

 

Yearbook Discoveries Volume 16 Issue 3