The company claimed visitors showed a high interest in its new digital finishing equipment, particularly the ASM 500 ‘squareback’ bookletmaking kit, which had its debut at the event.

Duplo also shifted four of its high-end System 5000 fully automated bookletmaking machines.

“Northprint really was a tremendous show for us, not just in terms of visitor numbers and sales orders, but also the range of different enquiries and the interest in some of our newer digital finishing systems,” said Duplo International UK marketing manager Peter Jolly.

With sales enquiries up 15% on Northprint 2005, the company expects total show sales to top £500,000.