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Berforts Group buys UK's first Nipson VaryPress 200 SED

The Berforts Group has responded to a growing demand for itsshort-run educational and academic book printing service bybecoming the first UK printer to invest in the Nipson VaryPress 200SED.

The print and mail company took delivery of the single-engineduplex machine at its Harlow site and is anticipating a low unitprint cost, especially on high pagination documents.

Managing director Gerald White said: "We are at the start of arevolution for short-run digital book printing – it'scomparable to when the print industry moved from hot metal tolitho."

The Nipson VaryPress 200 SED will enable Berforts to print on arange of coated stocks that includes plastics, polyester, foils,thermal sensitive and carbonless stocks.

John MacFarlane, general manager at Nipson, said: "The NipsonVaryPress range of printers allows our customers to be extremelycost competitive on print runs of up to 2,000 books. It's a veryefficient, flexible and high-quality method for printing digitalbooks or brochures."

Nipson's VaryPress 200 SED can print up to 70m a minute and, induplex mode, can output a 215mm print line on a web up to 252mmwide.

This allows for letter-sized and A4-sized documents to be printedon both sides by the single print engine.

White said: "Nipson's professional and personal service, pre andpost installation, has been excellent. Although my operators nowcomplain that the printer is extremely boring as it never breaksdown."