Duplo International’s ‘Celebration of Print’ held at its headquarters at Addlestone welcomed industry professionals from all over Europe and was a key platform for the UK-based company to showcase two of its major new solutions – the new B2 embellishment system DuSense DDC-8000 digital spot UV coating and foiling machine; and the DC-20K, a versatile and automated B2 cutter-creaser system.
Coming in four configurations, the relatively compact DuSense DDC-8000 takes spot UV coating and embellishment to a whole new level, both in terms of paper formats it handles and the range of high-quality raised effects it delivers.
It is versatile to handle all ranges of B2 prints processing up to 585mm x 1068mm formats. Its green button technology enables ease of use while the Automatic Thickness Detection (ATD) handles mixed media stacks allowing the UV 600dpi x 600dpi Kyocera print heads to be set to optimum height to ensure the best print quality results with superior accuracy and details.
The spot UV printing and foil processing with a three-dimensional effect realizes a more luxurious print sheet. In addition to supporting B2 size paper, it can propose spot UV printing and foil processing solutions for the packaging industry.
The DC-20K allows printers to use the existing SRA3 multi-finishing device to finish B2 sheets. Duplo International’s Product Marketing Manager Peter Dyson demonstrated a variety of jobs including greeting cards, business cards, and leaflets where a B2 format sheet offered more products per page with less wastage. “The software will look into the job and decide on the most efficient way to cut it,” explains Dyson.
Duplo International’s Head of International Marketing Marine Kerivel-Brown adds, “Throughout its history, Duplo has always been leading the way in automating complex manual tasks in finishing. It makes perfect sense for us to extend our technology and expertise to further help printers address some of their finishing bottlenecks, driving their operational efficiencies.”
Duplo International provides sustainable, high precision, automated print finishing technology products and is the sales and distribution arm of Duplo Corporation, Japan.
