Melbourne Print has brought booklet production into the automated age with installation of a Duplo DBM150, complete with a refurbished collating tower.
The company believes it is emerging from the Covid period, helped by government schemes, with its tight staff intact, and with a reshaped approach to business. Managing director Paul Wilson says: “We’ve had a quieter 18 months than we would have liked but we’ve been able to adapt the business to offer more online services and by using various government schemes we were able to keep all of our staff. We’re now looking forward to a busy next 12 months and so we thought automating our booklet production was key to being able to fit the extra work in.”
The DBM150 fitted the budget available for a first time investment in automated booklet production. And its impact has been immediate. Production is increased along with a step in quality and consistency. “We have already moved a number of jobs from the manual saddle stitcher to the DBM150 and have also started producing some jobs that would have historically gone to outsource, which is fantastic,” he says.
“Bringing work in-house means more profit for the company, we can keep costs down and turn work around much faster. It has freed up valuable time that was spent manually saddle stitching and we now also have the confidence that the products we are supplying have a consistent high quality finish.”
The new machine is fed by work from an array of Konica Minolta presses, much of which is from customers in the Derby area.
The addition of an online portal for wedding stationery, using templated designs for invitations, RSVPs and save the date cards, and a choice of GF Smith papers, is enabling the business to spread its net. These can be further enhanced with foiling, rounded corners and punched holes.
It also offers business cards, stationery, flyers and leaflets through the online portal, produced in house or via its membership of the Nettl network.
And as a Nettl outlet, Melbourne Print can offer website design and a greater range of display products than its Canon large format can cope with.
