Following our Swiss engineering tradition, we at ISAG believe in the outstanding quality of printed photo products, manufactured on reliable and high-performance systems. From that point of view, photo books should usually come in a unique, premium quality. We also believe in our international leading industry customers, producing outstanding quality photo products constantly, at optimum working conditions, keeping effort and production costs low.

That’s why Imaging Solutions develops finishing equipment, enabling our business partners to turn original ideas into profit, providing value-added LayFlat photo books, and to exceed the high demands of professional photographers as well as end consumers.The latest ISAG production solution was launched successfully at photokina: the new bookbinding system fastBook Professional. With numerous orders from leading photo product suppliers, the market entry of fastBook Professional can be considered as a major success.

ISAG now responds to the increasing demands of customers with another powerful version of this new LayFlat binding machine: fastBook Professional 1000. In comparison to the current version fastBook Professional 600, the new fastBook Professional 1000 processes up to 1,000 sheets by gluing sheet to sheet.

Both system versions are designed for the production of LayFlat photo books up to a format of 18″ x 18″, providing first-class quality with 180 degree opening and panoramic photo layout, spread flawless over two pages. Fields of application for premium photo books are wedding photography, fine art photography, exclusive product presentations and many more lucrative segments. Producers can increase their workflow flexibility with the high-performance and efficient fastBook Professional production solution. The systems are designed to produce 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Compared to other production lines, this system has a space-saving footprint, and the integrated hotmelt technology reduces consumable costs significantly. For an extraordinary look and special haptics, these photobook production machines run different types of original photo papers (AgX) and digital printing papers. The fastBook Professional book block system is a 100 % Swiss made development, produced in Switzerland.

Professional photographers demand vibrant reproductions of their images, and a perfect finishing when it comes to photo book production. For exceptional product quality, the new fastBook Professional bookbinding machine produces flush mount albums with cardboards included between two photo paper sheets.

This book block finishing system will more than satisfy the requirements of photo professional clients. Whether flush mounted wedding albums or coffee-table books with panoramic landscape images, the XXL format up to 18″ x 18″ will meet any expectations regarding quality, image layout, look and feel. Additional B2B target groups for this kind of photo products are advertising agencies, real estate agencies, or manufacturers of luxury goods and labels, such as cars, jewelery, yachts etc.

In the end consumer market, the demand on individual premium photo products is also rising constantly. Consumers are willing to pay higher prices for wonderful flush mounted albums, including their precious wedding memories. All suppliers of wedding related photo products can additionally benefit from the production variety, the fastBook Professional systems offer: first-class “save-the-date”, invitation or “thank you” cards, photo albums, parent gift books, wedding menu cards and many more.

End customers will appreciate to get all these photo products easily from a single and reliable source, in a consistent and high product quality, thus saving time and effort. They always will come back to purchase this premium products on other occasions (travel books, anniversaries etc.). For all those, who are looking for an efficient and cost-saving manufacture of wedding albums and related photo products, combined with good margins, fast Book Professional is a perfect production system choice.