Drupa Debut: Morgana DigiFold Ultra
21 May 2024: New Morgana DigiFold Ultra is a creasing/folding machine with full bleed trim capabilities. It can slit, cut, crease, perforate, and fold in one pass. It is robustly designed to complement mid-to-high volume digital and offset production presses.
Being exhibited for the first time at Drupa 2024, DigiFold Ultra builds on capabilities of the DigiFold Pro XL by adding the slitting and cutting functionality for full-bleed trim applications. High quality applications such as full-bleed 6 or 8-panel brochures become an easy task even for A4 (8.5” x 11”) landscape finished formats.
DigiFold Ultra’s long sheet trimming capability is a strategic complement to latest printing presses which now offer duplex printing on longer sheets. Rather of adding a free-standing guillotine for the trimming of 560mm long sheets, the Ultra allows customers to fully leverage capabilities of their new presses, with its ability to trim sheets of up to 1,300mm.
The standard product comes with dual folding knives, one DynaCreaser, two slitting knives and one cross-cut knife. The Ultra maintains the high productivity seen on previous generation Pro XL platforms – up to 6,000 A4 / 8.5 x 11-inch sheets per hour. There are also attachments such as Trim Waste Conveyor Belt and BST-4000 Belt Stacker which make the Ultra suited for longer unattended production runs.
Commenting on latest addition to the offline product range, Ray Hillhouse, VP Sales & Marketing for the Plockmatic Group Offline Business Unit, said “DigiFold Ultra maintains high productivity speeds of the Pro XL platforms. Adding trimming and cutting capabilities means that we can automate even more stages in production of the finished product. Helping to reduce the number of manual steps required in the print shop means less room for error. This is an affordable, robust, high-speed solution for businesses looking to reduce operator involvement.”
Features of the DigiFold Ultra include:
– User-friendly user interface: key in media parameters and select from standard trim, crease and fold patterns or create custom jobs as desired. No need for external connections to computers.
– Save job settings for quick and easy production (unlimited).
– Loading capacity up to 200 mm / 7.9 inches.
– Utilises latest technology with Plockmatic Group’s vacuum feed capability. Adaptive Fan Control automatically adjusts air flow for varying media sizes and weights.
– Ultrasonic double sheet detection.
– Up to 30 creases per sheet – avoiding image cracking or toner flaking on heavier media.
– Full cross perforation available, plus up to five inline perforation/scoring wheels.
– Up and down crease in a single pass with the included DynaCrease and (optional) Static Creaser modules.
– Equipped with both a belt-stacker for folded sheets and a delivery tray for non-folded jobs.
– Easy blade system allows for quick changes of blades without the need for any tools.
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