Sydney’s Faast Print has grown its booklet-making business by upgrading to a high-volume Duplo saddle stitcher and other equipment from Neopost, which has allowed it to produce six times the booklets it would have otherwise made in the last 18 months.
Mascot-based Faast Print, owned by David Sue, installed a new Duplo DBMi saddle stitching system in December 2017. This has recently been joined by a Multigraf CF-375 creaser/folder, and a CP-375 creaser/perforator – all supplied by Neopost.
“Our previous system was just too slow. We needed the capacity and speed to specialise in quick turnaround, and Duplo came out on top. We average about four thousand booklets an hour on the Duplo equipment,” said Sue.
David told Print21 that the installation of the new Duplo kit has boosted Faast Print’s sales, and allowed it to bring more booklet-making in house.
“We’re specialising more and more in booklets, which we never did before because of all the capacity we didn’t have. The Duplo has enabled growth in sales by something like twenty-three per cent.
“We used to outsource our booklet finishing, and most of the time we were outpriced. Since the installation of the Duplo equipment, we’ve done one and a half million booklets in eighteen months, where previously we would have done only two hundred and fifty thousand,” he said.
The Duplo DBMi is capable of producing eighty to ninety thousand booklets per month, according to Simon Birch, national commercial sales manager for print finishing solutions at Neopost.
“It has A4 landscape capability, intelligent multi-bin feed, and can go down to the small seventy-five by ninety millimetre booklet size and a maximum of 120 pages per booklet. It’s configurable for both digital and offset, depending on customer requirements,” he said.
Birch says Neopost has been pleased to help David Sue grow his business, and hopes to continue to develop a stronger relationship.
“Neopost has had a long-standing relationship with David going back to maybe the mid-2000s, around fifteen years. This relationship has developed into a strong partnership; we look forward to continuing our support as the business grows and needs change.
“Neopost will be there to help and provide ongoing support to Faast Print with new product offerings that bring efficiencies and innovation in print finishing,” he said.