Over 400,000 went on a five-colour Komori LS529 B2 press, which will go into the newspapers in-house printer Shetland Litho.

The rest of the money is paying for an Agfa Galileo platestter with Apogee workflow and a Heidelberg Stahl folder, for the base in Gremista, Lerwick.

The Komori will replace a 20-year-old four-colour Heidelberg GTO B3 machine in September, said The Shetland Times managing director Brian Johnston.

It will roll out 12,000 copies of the 52pp full-colour tabloid to a local population of 22,000 people.

We hope to increase turnaround by 14% in the first year, and speed up productivity, he said.

We went for the Agfa CTP kit because, until recently, there wasnt a system on the market that could feed all our plate sizes from large format to B3 and lower.