The CreaseStream Card Creaser represents a “significant improvement” over existing manual matrix creasers that use a handle to crease, CreaseStream, a sister company to Tech-ni-Fold said.

The Card Creaser is aimed at micro businesses, designers or people who are operating from a garage or small workshop and might produce occasional jobs of 50 or 100.

CreaseStream and Tech-ni-Fold owner Graham Harris said that the CreaseStream machine costs more than rivals but was six times faster.

“We’ve always been known as the company that produces quality products at a certain price.

"Our market research told us people want our technology but couldn’t justify buying it. With this machine we’ve tried to bring down the material cost. It hasn’t got some of the elements of our other machines, it hasn’t got the same sophisticated settings.”

He added: “Our next model up is £1,700 and we get a lot of people saying we would buy it if it was around £1,000. This is a way of giving them what they want.

“It’s not cheap, it’s not cutting corners, it’s a fantastic machine. It’s got the potential to take over the entry-level market. It’s a little thing that means a lot. When you’re in that lower end, it opens doors."

The reason the CreaseStream creaser is faster than other tabletop devices is with them users can only crease one sheet at a time, Harris said. If user wants to put another crease in rival manual creasers, they have to push the paper over, while his machine works mechanically, powered by a handle.

“With ours as fast as your hand can go, it’s a bit like a mangle and can do two creases at once. Time has stopped still in that market for 50, 60, 80 years. Things need to be shaken up a bit.”

The Card Creaser will cost £997 during Drupa and £1,097 after that.