The company in St Austell, Cornwall, won the job after the publisher weighed up in-house or outsourcing repro and decided Atelier offered "all the savings and control without the risk".

"Staff can now concentrate on content and quality of publications, rather than bad file formats, manually chasing copy and data management," said Encanta Media managing director Owen Davies.

His firm took over titles including Model Engineer, Military Modelling and Gardens Monthly recently and will tap into Atelier's Digital Publishing Desktop workflow management tool.

Mike Palmer (pictured), commercial director of Atelier said: "All you need with DPD is a web browser, making it a low-risk alternative to some trends in repro."

Encanta will use the technology to integrate sales orders, ad booking and artwork, editorial copy and creation of print-ready PDFs.

Atelier's publishing customers include Dennis and Redwood.