The Dundee-based business has specified an eight-tower configuration that will include heatset capacity. Installation is due to begin in the middle of 2012.
The company's new Colorliner CPS press will print up to 90,000 copies per hour and features the manufacturer's Autoplate plate changing system. The machine will also feature Goss Contiweb FD pasters, two Ecocool heatset dryers and two J2:5:5 jaw folders.
David Thomson, chief operations officer at DC Thomson, said: "The press will provide the high levels of quality and automation required to take our newspapers forward with renewed confidence. DC Thomson is proud to be investing in the future of print."
In addition, DC Thomson will undertake the reconfiguration of its existing Goss Colorliner equipment into a seven-tower, two-folder set-up.
"A major controls upgrade and other enhancements, combined with the robust design of the Colorliner press family, will extend the productivity and competitive efficiency of our existing equipment well into the future," he added.
The investment in the company's newspaper business comes on the back of a chequered 18 months for DC Thomson's sites in Glasgow and Dundee.
In June 2010, the company announced it was to cut 350 jobs at its West Ward site in Guthrie Street, Dundee. Then in February last year, 70 jobs were on the line at its printing plant in Glasgow.
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DC Thomson signs for world's first Goss Colorliner CPS press
DC Thomson has invested in the world's first Goss Colorliner CPS press in a bid to take forward the production of its newspapers "with renewed confidence".
