Print Xpress moves into five-colours and CTP

Print Xpress has invested 350,000 to take the two year-old firm into CTP and five-colour print.

The firm, based in the Hall Green area of Birmingham, has installed a B2 HighWater Python platesetter and a B3 Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 52.

"The SM 52 five-colour and the Python are the ideal partnership for us," said managing director Malik Aslam.

The new press will run alongside the firm's existing Heidelberg GTO, and the Python replaces an Agfa imagesetter. "In the first week alone we have already tripled our plate making and life is a lot easier," said Aslam.

The firm was founded in 2003 by Aslam and his two sons Amjad and Aftab, it now employs six full-time staff.