Greetings card firm Moonpig speeds up finishing with Duplo cutter

Moonpig has invested in a Duplo Docucutter with scoring module to cater for a growing demand for its newly launched range of card sizes.

The internet-based greetings card company, which offers a personalised service and same-day dispatch, installed the DC-645 with Rotary Score Module to alleviate a finishing "bottleneck".

The Guernsey-based print site, which caters for a customer base of more than 250,000, prints onto SRA3 card using its HP Indigo 3050 press.
 
Production manager Peter Duquemin said the Duplo kit "solved all our problems"

The Docucutter allows the printer to process a typical sheet with cutting on four sides at a rate of 1,560sph.

He said the machine "was key to unlocking the opportunity for greater flexibility and speed to handle the different card formats".

The Rotary Score Module is designed to overcome the loss of quality that occurs when sheets printed with a toner-based digital print engine are creased with a metal wheel.  

The substrate passes through a combination of plastic and metal forming wheels, which is claimed to achieve a high-quality result in one pass.