DUPLICATION CENTRE ENHANCE QUALITY WITH DUPLO DC-615 INVESTMENT
03 Jan 2012
The investment in a new Duplo DC-615 automatic crease and cutting machine has enabled Duplication Centre to simultaneously reduce production costs and improve the quality of the 40,000 CDs and DVDs they output every month.
The Essex-based company has been trading for 8-years and offers CD, DVD and Blue-ray duplication services to everyone from the general public to some of the world’s largest blue-chip organisations. Managing Director Martin Johnson has seen the company grow year-on-year and puts the success down to the superior quality of its products and a commitment to delivering first-class customer service. The company markets itself and transacts most its business online and strives to achieve the fastest turnaround, highest quality and lowest cost service in the UK.
Copying the discs, printing the artwork and assembling the finished goods into cases is done completely in-house giving the company full control over quality. Mr Johnson explained, “we look to exceed customer expectations in everything we do. Even our raw materials are the best available. We only Sony discs and Xerox paper (for the CD inlays and DVD wraps) to give a finish no-one else offers”.
As a quality-focus organisation the company is always looking at ways to improve and had been disappointed by the standard of some its printed paper inserts that accompany the discs. Toner cracking on folded inserts was of particular concern as was the time taken to complete a job. Until the DC-615 was installed, the company was printing CD inlays (track listings), booklets and DVD wraps using its Xerox workstation and then cutting them on a guillotine before folding and inserting into cases.
Now, the company simply loads the raw print from the Xerox directly into the DC-615 which does all the cutting automatically; by-passing the guillotine. This has freed-up man power as the machine does not need a dedicated minder. Mr Johnson was also pleased with the DC-615’s built-in creaser; “we used to buy in pre-perforated paper for the CD-inlays but we’d often get cracking when we folded it. With the DC-615 we can crease the sheets instead so we don’t need pre-perforated paper, the finish is better and cost is lower.”
Going forward, Duplication Centre will shortly take delivery of a Ricoh C651 printer which will further improve quality and productivity. Indeed, they will become the first company in their sector to have a new C651. The investment in both printing and finishing equipment will give the company the edge when they look to expand into Europe in the new year. As Mr Johnson explains, “we’ve been selling into Europe for some time but have never really focused on it. Next year, with our new resources, export markets will become a big focus for us and we have the capacity to match any increase in volumes.”
The Duplo DC-615 was supplied to Duplication Centre by print finishing equipment specialist, Elmstok. The DC-615 is a pre-programmble digital finisher that cuts and creases SRA3 sheets down to finished products. According to the literature, it can produce 1200 greetings cards or 6000 business cards per hour with no manual intervention.
Contact: Andy Pike
UK Marketing Manager
Telephone: +44(0) 1372 468 131
Direct: +44(0) 1372 478 221
Email: andy.pike@duplointernational.com
Download: DC-615_TDC_Duplo_Jan12.pdf
Images: DC-615_card.zip
