Doveton has installed a new DBM-600 Booklet system from Duplo. The system joins a Duplo DuBinder DPB-500 which the company installed earlier this year.
The Bristol-based business, which produces digital work on Versafire machines, decided to invest in new finishing equipment after analysing its workflow and existing range of machinery over the course of the pandemic.
Managing director Mark Savage explained, ‘With the level of jobs being reduced through the pandemic, our Anicolor 52 hadn’t been turned on since the end of February, there just wasn’t any work for it. All our jobs have and are going through our Heidelberg XL75 and our digital presses. We had a good look at our workflow, the people and equipment and ended up selling the Anicolor to make space for the Duplo DBM-600.’
He continued, ‘We were having major problems with our finishing bottlenecks in both cutting and folding. With the speed and versatility of the Duplo booklet system means that both folding and guillotine processes have now been freed up along with other equipment as we can put a wide variety of jobs through the machine, from simple folding and collating to our short run booklet work. Currently we’re putting all our standard folded leaflets through the booklet maker since we get so many different jobs for them, they just block up the folders and the saddle-stitcher. I do think that once the volumes start to come back, we will be putting more and more work through the Duplo booklet system as it just eats the work up!
‘This is the third Duplo booklet machine we’ve installed, and we’ve always been happy with them. They’re robust, they produce excellent products consistently and my operators know the intuitive software inside out.’
Mr Savage also hinted at increase in print capacity, calling it ‘logically our next step,’ however he said that Dovetail’s current premises simply didn’t allow for this. He concluded by explaining, ‘The priority will be to keep all our people together, there’s no point moving location if we have to lose our valuable people in the process so for now, we will wait and see.’
