The machine, supplied by Intelligent Finishing Systems,  replaces a Horizon SPF-20, which Salisbury has owned since 2004.

Following the Drupa signing, the device will be installed on 11 July and will act as a direct replacement for the SPF-20.

Salisbury director Paul Dible said: “This is the third generation of Horizon bookletmaker we have had, we’ve had the SPF-10 and SPF-20 and now the SPF-200 and basically we’ve liked all of them and it’s just getting a bit old so we thought we would upgrade.

"I think the value for money is excellent. It does A4 landscape booklets, which does give us a different option. I think they’ve upgraded the blowers, which will help digital stock, and there are a fair few other improvements.”

Dible said that initially when the Salisbury team headed to Drupa, they hadn’t settled on which bookletmaker they were going to purchase. He said the team looked around at various manufacturers, in the end settling on the Horizon in part due to its suitability for Salisbury’s lithographic work.

He added: “We looked around a lot at Drupa, had a demo on each of them, but to be honest most were more entry level, probably okay just for digital work but we do quite a lot of litho as well."

The Horizon runs at 4,500bph for A5 booklets and 4,000bph for A4, and can feed A4 landscape sheets at up to 640mm. It has an icon-based colour touchscreen, which can recall up to 200 jobs.

Founded in 1976, £800,000-turnover Salisbury produces a wide range of digital and litho work, including wide-format. On the digital side, it runs a Konica bizhub and Xerox C70 digital press. It operates two Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 52s and one SM 74 for litho work.

Dible said he was hoping the new Horizon would help keep turnover steady, as it has been for the past couple of years, after falling for the three years before that.