The Esher company sold a three-tower System 5000 bookletmaker and a DC-545 cutter/slitter/creaser to London-based Copyprint UK at the exhibition.

The deal, including a part exchange for a previous Duplo bookletmaker, will triple bookletmaking capacity at the London printer to 5,000 per hour.

"We used to have a bottleneck in finishing, but this will ease that. It's quicker, more user friendly and more robust than the old machine," said John Perrott, Copyprint UK production manager.

Duplo also revealed that it is to sell the DCM 45/75 rotary creaser/perforator machines built by Tech-ni-fold and Multigraf, which Babs International also launched at the Olympia show.

The new DC-645 slitter/creaser/trimmer also had its first UK showing.

Story by Josh Brooks