St Albans-based Manson has bought a 10-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 with CutStar and a new KH82 folder, which is the 1,000th to be shipped out by Heidelberg.

The 10-colour Speedmaster will run alongside an eight-colour Heidelberg SM102, which also has CutStar.

"We are a Heidelberg house and we invested in this  equipment because of its reliability," said Manson Group joint managing director Carina Wass.

"This investment is about efficiency and giving our customers greater capacity and flexibility," she added.

The Manson Group mainly prints B2B magazines.