Specifications include, but are not limited to: This solicitation is to establish a contract for a banding machine for the TxDOT Print Shop. The automatic banding machine must: 5.1 Be on casters. 5.2 Be able to be installed behind any folding machine. 5.3 Be able to interface with any folding machine. 5.4 Process a minimum of 2-Up format with ability to band two folded pieces simultaneously. 5.5 Have electrical connections 16A, 400/230V, 3.5 kW 5.6 Have automatic waste sheet ejection to eliminate misfolded sheets. 5.7 Have a pressing unit that opens pneumatically with pressing capacity up to 3.5t with pre- and main pressing rollers, to include shingle stream (sheets on top of each other) and single-sheet mode. 5.8 Have a numerical counter and color touchscreen. 5.9 Have a hopper, side-joggers, back-joggers and adjustable pile pressing. 5.10 Provide automatic bundling with 50 mm tape with electronic impulse welding system up to 600 cycles per hour with automatic transport of banded packages sideways to the package lift (parcel lift delivery of the bundles to an extended platform).