Manager Mike Bennett (pictured) said the council had been looking to replace its old two-colour press but had opted for the four-colour B3 landscape-format Ryobi to enable it to keep more jobs in-house, reducing outwork costs.
It had also suffered from a constant backlog in platemaking when it was using an imagesetter, so the DPX platesetter has speeded up pre-press.
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