Buck Automation's products are founded on the basis that processing direct mail shouldn't be difficult. We improved on the best of all current technology. Most Operator adjustments and the source of many jams have been totally eliminated, increasing throughput while making downtime and waste a past concern. Maintenance is greatly simplified. Many more features have been added that allow you to offer a competitive advantage to your customers.

• Mission

Dedicated to increasing Direct Mail throughput and your profitability. We start our innovations with a simple inserter design that is easy to operate (SAMI™), and continue with essential components for your operations such as inkjet (JIMI™), labeling/tabbing(LIBI™/TABI™), and camera matching (MIMI™). Our products offer you an outstanding ROI (Return On Investment)

• Background

INSERTING

 The old design of the "swing-arm" mail inserter is more than 70 years old!

It was the world's most popular and versatile design but has remained basically unchanged UNTIL NOW. Mail inserters (of all types) traditionally have been the poorest performing printing/mailing automation machines in wide use today. Until now envelopes and inserts regularly jammed or miss-fed every 5 minutes or less. Buck Automation has identified the problems and eliminated them

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Finally after 70 years the Swing Arm Mail Inserter problems have been addressed!

Our Direct-Mail inserter, SAMI(tm) changed many of the inserter's paper feeding, stuffing components, and machine techniques from the original design. We kept what works and changed the rest. The development of our unique swing-arm inserter solutions is the result of years of research and field-testing. Comprehensive patent applications cover the elegantly simple design.

Buck Automation's SAMI™ improvements to insertering:

~ Eliminated most all sources of jams and mis-feeds, for more predictable performance.

~ SAMI™ eliminates almost all operator adjustments. It is now possible to achieve significantly higher net throughput with much less skilled labor.

~ We greatly simplified the machine design. You don’t need expensive service contracts to meet your production commitments.

SAMI(tm) (Swing-Arm-Mail-Inserter) The future of the direct mail industry!

INKJET

 Our new features make all other inkjet systems obsolete. We improved performance and added the essential features you need. New versatile feeding technology, much improved material handling, new dryer design, twice the speed, twice the resolution, Intelligent bar codes, automatic capping stations and much more.

Match Mail, Monitoring Integrity

Affordable, simple to use, complete mail and data integrity, end-to-end.

Buck Crowley - President, Founder

Founder of 3 other successful companies: Roll Systems Inc., Automation Inc. and Lincoln Technology Inc. Granted more than 75 US Patents. Designed more than 65 successful products, with a market value of $1 billion. Awarded 4 GATF Intertech Awards: for "Commercially Successful Products".

Biographical Background

BUCK CROWLEY

Buck Crowley has over 25 years of developing Products and founding Companies. He has designed more than 65 commercially successful products, more than $900 million in revenue. Most of these products enable the production of printing products. Many of his products were industry first. He has been awarded 75 US patents, mostly related to printing or related products. He has authored numerous articles and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

He has founded four successful companies: Lincoln Technologies, Automation, Inc., Roll Systems Inc., and Buck Automation Int.  Roll Systems, made the INC. 500 twice, with annual revenues reaching $46 million. Roll Systems was founded to pioneer high volume on-demand printing and mail production. He was awarded 40 patents at Roll Systems Inc. for their outstanding and innovative products.

Four of his product designs were awarded the coveted Graphic Arts Technical Foundation "Intertech Award" given for outstanding commercially successful products. He has received numerous industry awards. He is an Honored Member of the Who's Who of American Inventors.

Some of his better-known Graphic-Art product contributions are:
-Butler Automatic: Infeed tension, Web Guide, and Datamat Splicers.
-Hantscho Web Press: Ink/Water, automatic cutoff and register controls (Micro-register).
-Web Printing Controls: CCR, Color-to-Color closed loop register.
-Automation Inc./ Print-Cafe: AutoCount, for accurate press counts and warehouse bar-code system.
-In-line finishing: plow, slit, punch, perf, rotary-cut, fragrant burst, repositional glue, scratch-off and folding.