MGS, which has 19 staff, including 11 engineers, will continue to operate from its Berkhamsted premises.

The 2m-turnover company has 200 clients including The Economist and Time Out. It supplies and supports ECRM, HighWater and Esko-Graphics imagesetters as well as Epson and HP large-format printers.

Centurfax managing director Bob Leslie said: It was a simple decision. Were in pre-press and so were they.

Centurfax has also relocated its Prova Digital office in Ampthill, which had one permanent member of staff, to its main office in Barnet.

MGS directors Alan Thompson and Oliver Palmer stay on at the firm, as operations director and major accounts director respectively.