Drupa debut: Morgana DigiFold Ultra

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The 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, the DigiFold Ultra builds on the 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 six or eight panel brochures become an easy task even for A4 landscape finished formats.

DigiFold Ultra’s long sheet trimming capability is a strategic complement to the latest printing presses which now offer duplex printing on longer sheets. Rather of adding a free standing guillotine for the trimming of 560 mm long sheets, the Ultra allows customers to fully leverage the capabilities of their new presses, with its ability to trim sheets of up to 1300 mm.

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 the previous generation Pro XL platforms – up to 6000 A4 sheets per hour. There are also attachments such as the Trim Waste Conveyor Belt and BST-4000 Belt Stacker which make the Ultra suited for longer unattended production runs.

Ray Hillhouse, vice president sales and marketing for the Plockmatic Group Offline Business Unit, said: ‘The DigiFold Ultra maintains the high productivity speeds of the Pro XL platforms. Adding trimming and cutting capabilities means that we can automate even more stages in the 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 and instead focus on activities that drive profitability and growth.’

The Morgana DigiFold Ultra is available to order on the stand (hall 8b/A41-1 – A41-2), with deliveries currently due to begin in June 2024.