Artistic print specialist Dayfold has put in a Duplo PFi Blade B2 digital chopping desk, serving to the corporate break into short-run and experimental work.
The Dorset-based printer, which produces litho and digital print, has already discovered the flexibleness of a digital machine helpful when collaborating with purchasers to provide more practical campaigns.
“We don’t merely take orders and course of quotes,” mentioned Del Simmons, managing director of Dayfold, which put in the machine late final summer time.
“We develop the campaigns and concepts that the manufacturers and artistic companies have, working hand in hand to ship improbable options to their tasks.
“That is why we made the transfer to look into digital chopping tables. The extra we use the PFi Blade B2, the extra we study, the extra we discover new alternatives to get inventive. It has offered us with varied added worth options to our providing.”
He added that Dayfold had thought of shopping for the smaller B3 mannequin, or a cutter from one other producer. The B2 mannequin’s flexibility and alternative for embellishment – with the flexibility to kiss lower, crease, and perforate – attracted the corporate to the B2 cutter.
“Our operators have been actually impressed with the flexibility of the machine and we have already got feedback comparable to ‘How did we do that earlier than, with out this machine?’,” Simmons mentioned.
Duplo has been supportive with coaching and repair, Simmons added, and has continued to assist Dayfold develop new chopping concepts.
The Duplo machine has joined a variety of different ending tools on the agency, which may foil, die lower, emboss, bond, fold and sew in-house. The sturdy ending capabilities on the agency complement its presses, which embody HP Indigo and Ricoh engines on the digital facet and traditional B2 and an SRA1 LED UV press on litho.
Simmons added: “We strongly imagine that good print is about a lot greater than placing ink on paper, the mix of a great design with the proper enter and recommendation can carry the tip end result to a better degree. Whether or not or not it’s printing on new supplies or combining uncommon finishes we’re all the time up for a problem and completely happy to push the manufacturing boundaries.”
“The worldwide pandemic got here at a troublesome time for us once we have been in the midst of a reasonably large funding on equipment and infrastructure. Fortunately, because of stable help from our purchasers and suppliers we are actually above pre-pandemic and looking out ahead to the challenges forward as we proceed to develop our companies and choices to our valued clients.”
Final summer time, 45-staff Dayfold signed again as much as Tharstern MIS after 5 years away.