Technical manager Dave Bunn said Prinergy gave the directories, catalogue and magazine specialist the reliability and security needed for time-critical work.

Bgp, which has web printing sites in Colchester and Bicester and counts British Telecom and Independent Newspapers among its customers, outputs more than 10,000 plates a month for its seven web presses.

It installed its first B1 Trendsetter four years ago and took a VLF platesetter in 2001 when it bought a new 48pp Heidelberg web.