The machine, an upgrade to the seven-year-old CardXtra, was first mooted at Ipex 2010, but the small-footprint slitting, cutting, trimming and creasing unit is now available.

It is aimed predominantly at high street printers and inplants due to its fast business card production. The Plus version can also be used for postcards, greetings cards, calendars, double and multi-fold business cards, bookmarks, and playing cards.

Morgana UK sales manager Ray Hillhouse said: "While this unit is ideal for high street printers looking to provide a fast business card trimming service, there is really no reason why every jobbing print business in the country shouldn’t own one.

"CardXtra Plus speeds up the finishing of so many small jobs that the payback period for the device can be extremely short."

The machine can feed sheets up to SRA3 and trim, cut and crease in multiple positions. According to Morgana, the accuracy of the Plus is the best available in the market at +/- 0.1mm accuracy.

For business cards, a run of 250 cards can be finished in less than two minutes, replacing a job which would take more than 15 minutes on a guillotine.

The machine is available now from £14,000.