25 www.printmonthly.co.uk January / February 2024 - Issue 346 Brian Sims Principal Consultant, Metis Print Consultancy, www.metis-uk.eu options you add to the basic DBM-700 core element. You have choices between which sheet feeder, collator tower, Square Spine, trimmer, and stacker you can pull together to create the format you need. As standard the DBM-700 bookletmaker has all the equipment to ensure quick and quality production. All the folding rollers are automatically adjusted and there are error detector sensors for paper feeding, jamming, and on all the safety guards. As described before the bookletmaker changes quickly and effectively between sizes and configurations automatically. There is a straight paper path which is coupled with LED lighting. There is a registration system and adjustment has a resolution down to 0.1mm. Access has been cleverly designed into the machine so that the changing of knives or equipment is quick and straight-forward. With regard to the choices, up first could be considered the DSF-2200 Sheet Feeder which when used in configuration with the DBM-700 or DBM-700T makes for an ideal partner when using digitally printed sheets. The device has a dual bin with high powered fans and the Air Management System Plus (AMS) meaning the transport and accurate delivery of the sheets is assured. The top of the range version is the DBM-700 PRO which is a combination of the bookletmaker and the DSF-6000. This feeder can process offset and digital printed materials and pre-collated media for the production of high-quality finished booklets. Due to the pallet loading systems having an adaptor to fit into digital presses, this combination can assure both high quality and high volume. Duplo can add twin feeder systems and suction tower collators to these combinations which again come with AMS and a number of differing functions that add both adaptability and operational function to the DBM-700 bookletmaker. Duplo offers for the DBM-700 its twoknife trimmer known as DKTS-200. This two-knife trimming station can remove the header and footer from the booklet and can be assigned with the single knife in the machine itself. There is an option of 6 or 8mm gutter cutters and you can enable up to five knives for small-format booklets. All Production speed 5,200 A5 booklets/hr 9,000 2-up booklets/hr Max booklet thickness DBM-700: 6mm (30 sheets of 80 GSM) DBM-700S: 10mm (50 sheets of 80 GSM) Sheet size Max: W 365mm x L 610mm Min: W 105mm x L 170mm Booklet trimmed size Max W 354mm x L 304mm Min W105 x L 75mm Folding capacity 2-30 sheets (50 with DBM-700S) Statistics ► The new DBM-700 can produce both booklets and square spine applications UNDER THE HOOD / DUPLO DBM-700 this ticks the target of increasing the scope of production possible. The bookletmakers come with tried and trusted Hohner stitching heads, but should you require it you have the option to upgrade stitching heads from two, three, or four flat or loop versions. Finishing off the choices is the stacking of the finished product. Duplo has the DBM-400 STR stacker system that can be added to make up the DBM-700i Booklet System. Regardless of the choice you make, operating them is the same driven by a PC-based Job Programming System with a GUI and intuitive software system. You can save and recall jobs from the PC memory and there is an individual control panel for the fine-tuning of a job being run. Duplo makes some bold statements with the scope of productivity of the new DBM-700 series of bookletmakers. Your choices of optional equipment will determine the model you have, but regardless, all of them will live up to the promises made by Duplo. ◄ The DBM-700 has the ability to fold 30 sheets of 80gsm and the DBM-700S can fold 50 sheets of 80gsm
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