Included in the range is the Corner Master round corner creator, the Corner Trim trimmer, the Easy Fly inline single knife trimmer and the Trim & Perf perforator.

The announcement follows recent additions to IFS range, including Photobooks Technology, which it added last month.

According to joint managing director Tony Hards, the additions are in response to UK printers' drive to broaden their scope.

He said: "There will always be a place for our mainstream products, but successful printers understand that they need to keep pushing back the boundaries and creating more options for their customers.

"We take great care to select solutions that will service a growing market demand. With its strong ethos of development of systems that are quick and easy to set up, SCS aims to fulfil the market’s needs through flexible and valuable technology."

The Corner Master can create round corners on pre-made square-cornered hard cases by flash heating, squeezing and flattening in one move at speeds which allow it to be run in-line with casing-in lines.

According to Hards, round cornering has always been popular for diaries but is now increasingly used for children's books, for safety reasons, and photo albums as a "distinctive" option.