Three former Astron staff have set-up a digital printing company, Destiny Digital Services, in Watford.

The firm is initially offering short-run black-and-white print for customers in the IT, finance and education markets.

Operations director Adrian Brown, commercial director Robert Venn and business development director Mark Kingsbury are all ex-Astron and between them have also worked at Tactica and Microgen.

Their nine-strong firm uses two Heidelberg Digimaster 9110 presses.

"Heidelberg made the extra steps to support us setting up," said Brown. "The Digimaster is a better piece of kit then the DocuTech in terms of quality and adaptability."

Destiny is also looking at variable data work and is in discussions with customers about personalised jobs.

More colour capability is also on the cards. "Im very interested to see how the NexPress develops," said Brown.