The Northampton-based printer installed the £21,000 DigiFold at the end of September. It replaced a traded-in Morgana Major folder.
Twenty10 managing director Paul Riley said: “We picked up a greeting cards company a couple of years ago and have been putting those jobs on our existing DocuMaster [and the Major] but where it was taking five hours for jobs on that machine, it now takes an hour to do around 6,000 cards.
“Because I print for Morgana as well and it is based in Milton Keynes, I kept going to its showroom and using its machines and you get to a point where you just say ‘hang on a minute, I need to buy one of these’.
“The new machine is versatile, with swing-arm creasing instead of static and a longer sheet size.”
Riley said the DigiFold's ability to fold 6pp A4 documents and handle substrates up to 400gsm were a large part of its appeal. He also liked how it can “skew” sheets if the cutting is slightly off and also recall jobs on its SmartScreen control panel to speed makereadies.
Twenty10’s greetings cards arm's main client recently started printing jobs for Waterstones and has been outsourcing to Twenty10, which has accounted for the extra work and allowed Twenty10 to move existing booklet work onto its DocuMaster.
It has also picked up work from a local business, printing around 1,000 A6 bus timetables at a time with a 48-hour turnaround. Riley said the six-staff business has picked up around £10,000 from this job in the last two months.
In its “mini Morgana showroom”, Twenty10 also houses the DocuMaster, a 2014-purchased DigiBook 200 PUR binder, a CardXtra for business cards and small-format jobs, a Matrix laminator and a Rhin-o-Tuff wiro-binding machine. It plans on adding a plotter in early 2017.
Its main pieces of printing equipment are two HP Indigos, a 3050 and a 5000, and a Mimaki UJF-6042 flatbed.
Last year, it turned over around £500,000.
It produces digital and wide-format print including booklets, banners, posters and business cards for design agencies and a range other customers including Suzuki and Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
