Our two specialised factories in Chippenham and Eastbourne offer

True on-demand printing

Short-run and medium length print jobs

Single copy print-runs to 20,000

Sewn, notched or unsewn binding, paperback or hardback

Manufacture, warehousing and despatch to anywhere in the world

 

Plant and equipment

Pre-press

Systems
PC/DOS/Mac platforms
Sun SPARCstation/Unix with UPS
Imagesetters
Laser printers 1200 dpi
Platemakers
2 x Heidelberg Trendsetter CTP units
Scanners
Epson GT8000 & GT9000
Agfa T5000 HQ and Scanfast system
Xerox DigiPath scanners
Fujitsu Hi-Speed scanners
CD devices
Plextor CD Recorders
RAID Servers
Archiving/storage
CD jukebox systems - DVD Ram Recorders
Ultrium Tape Backup
ISDN
4-Sight, Transfile and Dial-up Networking
LPMS
Looseleaf page management system
Page by page book-build and updating system for legal loose-leaf page management and missing page service.
FTP Server behind firewall

Printing (litho and digital)

Heidelberg 3 x sheet-fed 102ZP B1 perfectors
Xerox 1 x Docutech 6135 LWP
Xerox 1 x Docutech 6135 with inline folder and wire stitcher
Xerox 5 x Docutech 6135s
Xerox 1 x Docutech 6180
Xerox 1 x DocuColor 2060
Xerox 1 x DocuColor DC12
Xerox 1 x DocuTech 65
Xerox 1 x DocuColor DC8000

Post-press

Shoei 4 x SRK74 folders
Shoei 1 x SRK82 folders
MB 1 x CAS 524 folder
Prafotec Aleksia 1 x endpapering machine
Aster 1 x 160 automatic sewing machine
Smyth 1 x hand sewing machine
Kolbus Ratio binder 24 station 27 clamp Ratio binder, with inline cover feeder and trimmer
Muller Martini Monobloc binding line with 18 station in-line gathering sections, hot and cold glue applicators and in-line cover feeders
Sulby 1 x MiniBanda
Sulby 1 x SB200 paperback binder
Quadrimax 2 x paperback binders with barcode verification system for covers and text block
VBF 1 x automatic three-knife trimmer
Wohlenberg 1 x automatic three-knife trimmer
Kolbus 1 x clothcutter
Kolbus 1 x Compact casing-in line and stacker
Durselin Corta 1 x automatic drilling machine
Adpak 1 x shrinkwrap machine
Wilstead Wilstead 305 3-knife trimmer custom built to Antony Rowe's specification

Ancillary equipment: 3 x free-standing wire stitching machines; 2 x Kolbus DA36 casemaking machines; 3 x blocking machines; 4 x guillotines; 1 x polybagging machine; 2 x banding machines