Duplo DC-618 Slitter Cutter Creaser: The Ultimate All-in-One Finishing Solution
Maximize your digital printing capabilities with the Duplo DC-618 Slitter Cutter Creaser, a compact yet powerful all-in-one finishing system designed for today’s fast-paced print environment.1 This fully automated machine streamlines your workflow by performing up to 6 slits, 30 cuts, and 20 creases in a single pass, eliminating the need for multiple finishing processes and reducing turnaround times.2
Experience unmatched efficiency and precision in producing a wide range of applications, from business cards and postcards to brochures, invitations, and more.3 The DC-618 delivers professionally finished, full-bleed applications at speeds of up to 23 sheets per minute, all without the hassle of white borders or toner cracking, ensuring a clean and high-quality result every time.4
Key Features and Benefits:
- All-in-One Finishing: Slit, cut, and crease in a single pass, reducing labor and increasing productivity.5 Optional perforation modules further enhance versatility.6
- High Speed: Process up to 23 sheets per minute for quick turnaround times on short-run jobs.7
- Full-Bleed Applications: Produce borderless prints for a professional finish.8
- Toner Crack Prevention: Ensures clean folds on digitally printed materials.9
- Versatile Paper Handling: Accommodates paper weights from 110 to 400 gsm and sizes up to 13″ x 39.3″ (with optional long paper tray).10
- Automated Job Setup: The built-in CCD scanner reads barcodes and registration marks, allowing for instant job recall and automatic adjustments for image shift, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors.11
- User-Friendly PC Controller Software: Provides easy job programming, storage of an unlimited number of jobs, and seamless integration with prepress workflows, including EFI Fiery Impose.12
- Intuitive LCD Touchscreen Panel: Stores up to 250 jobs for quick access directly from the machine.
- Adjustable Creasing: Features a 3-step crease depth adjustment and a crease width tool to optimize performance on various paper stocks, preventing cracking and ensuring accurate folds.13
- Optional Perforation Modules: Expand functionality with manual, rotary, and cross perforation modules for creating tickets, coupons, and reply cards with custom perforation patterns.14
- In-Line Folding Option: Connect with the Duplo In-Line Folder for a complete finishing solution in a single pass (slitting, cutting, creasing, perforating, and folding).15
- Robust and Reliable: Duplo’s signature feed system with an air suction belt ensures consistent and mark-free feeding.
- Space-Saving Design: Its compact footprint makes it ideal for print shops with limited space.
- Unattended Operation: Load the paper, recall the job via barcode, and let the DC-618 work while your operators focus on other tasks.
Ideal Applications:
- Business cards (including 24-up)16
- Postcards
- Brochures
- Gatefold invitations17
- Greeting cards
- Tickets and coupons
- Direct mail with perforated reply cards
- Book covers
- Menus
- And much more!
The Duplo DC-618 Slitter Cutter Creaser is the smart investment for digital printers looking to bring precision finishing in-house, reduce bottlenecks, increase productivity, and deliver high-quality results consistently.18 It’s an easy-to-use, automated solution that will quickly become an indispensable part of your print finishing workflow.
