The 48 spray bars will be fitted to the company's five-year-old Solna D400 press, which prints titles such as 42,000-run title The Advertiser and the 21,000-run North West Evening Mail.

Guy Forester, operations manager of Furness Newspapers, cited Baldwin's Constant C technology as a main reason behind the decision, which helps maintain "clear and unblocked nozzles throughout the print run".

Forester visited a Latvian newspaper site that used the bars, which kept the dirt and ink flying out of the nozzles, "which is an ongoing problem for any spray dampening system, including the system we are replacing".

"Even though the newspaper had only been running the World spray bars for about six weeks, they were so delighted with the outcome that we were convinced there and then that this was the right decision," added Forester.

In addition to its daily titles, Furness Newspapers also produces a range of other weekly and monthly titles on a contract print basis.

The Baldwin World spray bars are fitted to a six four-high tower Solna D400 press, which can produce a range from four to 48 colour tabloid pages in one pass.