Cutting
Cutting
Cutting
Hunkeler Roll To Stack Cutter
Hunkeler Roll To Stack Cutter
The Hunkeler Roll to Stack Cutter allows us to fully automate the cutting of reeled work produced on our two Truepress inkjet printers. Once printed and rewound, the reels are then loaded into the Hunkeler cutter. Here, using smart workflow technology, the Hunkeler cuts horizontally and vertically to produce finished items.
Perfect for speeding up the production of booklets, it also allows us to produce flyers and letterheads incredibly fast – they are printed, cut and collated with minimum human interaction, at speeds of up to 450 stacks per hour!
Bobst Novacut 106 Die Cutter
Bobst Novacut 106 Die Cutter
The Bobst Novacut flat bed die cutter provides us with a high speed, high quality solution for our die cut jobs such as presentation folders, swing tags and tent cards. The flat bed means we can use a wider range of materials than is possible with the rotary die cutter, and the B1 sheet size means we can easily die cut longer run jobs from our litho presses and Landa.
With a top speed of 8,000 sheets an hour, it cuts, strips and blanks in one go, making the whole process efficient and clean.
Tecnau Cutstack C23
Tecnau Cutstack C23
Joined inline with our Truepress Jets, our two Cutstacks help to complete our booklet production stream. A continuous stream of paper is fed through the Truepresses and the Cutstack must guillotine that stream into individual pages.
The Cutstack also automatically collates the pages it trims. A Tecnau Buffer 530 is placed between it and the press so that the printing output doesn’t have to be interrupted while the Cutstack pushes out a pile of collated pages.
Dumor CR68 Corner Rounder
Dumor CR68 Corner Rounder
Given the name, you may have guessed that the Dumor has a very particular purpose. You’d be right! The Dumor Corner Rounder is a manual puncher and is responsible for creating our rounded corner business cards.
Once trimmed into individual cards, business cards are stacked and placed in the Dumor and the punch is brought down. We can punch stacks of business cards up to 38mm thick which helps when we have 450gsm cards plus laminations.
Polar High-Speed Cutters
Polar High-Speed Cutters
We have three different High-Speed Polar guillotines throughout our factory; the N 137, N 92, and N 78, each a different size. Polar were a natural choice as they are produced in partnership with Heidelberg. They are also well suited for regular use in a busy factory like ours.
With a number of automated features, Polar High Speed Cutters have minimal make-ready times, maximising efficiencies. Compucut® technology means that we can set cutting programs while creating the jobs in the first instance – the guillotines just have to scan the barcode to know what program to use!
Kongsberg i-XP24c High Speed CAD Cutter
Kongsberg i-XP24c High Speed CAD Cutter
When it comes to large format production, we need a versatile cutter that can handle a number of different stocks. Thankfully, that’s exactly what we have in the Kongsberg. This CAD cutter can cope with our thicker signage materials, such as Dilite and foamex. It can also give us less regular shapes such as exhibition stand panels and rounded corners on signage.
Horizon HT1000V Bound Trimmer
Horizon HT1000V Bound Trimmer
For our perfect binding department, it has to be a Horizon Variable Three-Knife Trimmer. This trimmer works in-line with our Horizon Perfect Binders. Simply by scanning the bar code on a booklet’s cover, the trimmer can program itself to the required finished size, without the need for operator input.
Beyond the machine itself, we enjoy working with Horizon and IFS, their UK suppliers. With many other Horizon products in our factory, we know that their team can provide the support that we need to keep machines running optimally.
Duplo DC746 Slitter / Cutter / Creaser
Duplo DC746 Slitter / Cutter / Creaser
More than just a cutter, the Duplo DC-746 can also help with folded items on slightly thicker stocks. Items such as our folded business cards are cut and creased on this machine, ready for our customers to receive and fold themselves. The Duplo also creases items ready to be folded fully within our factory, such as our greetings cards.
Heidelberg Cylinder Press
Heidelberg Cylinder Press
Now, it is our pleasure to introduce you to the oldest piece of equipment in our factory, the Heidelberg Cylinder Press. Although we only bought it four years ago, this machine was actually produced back in 1967! It's so reliable, it has only cost us £1,600 in maintenance work in the whole time we’ve owned it.
This die-cutter was converted from one of Heidelberg’s original letterpresses but now, instead of pressing inked letter pieces into the stock, it presses a die-cut template. Using the same basic technology that Heidelberg paper feeders use today, this die-cutter is productive as well as reliable.