The purchase, which was supported by a Welsh Assembly investment grant, marks Mowatt's first move to modernise the Porthmadog printer.
Mowatt said that after assessing the production processes, he quickly identified platemaking as a bottleneck.
In addition to buying the new platesetter, Mowatt decided to switch to chemistry-free processing in order to further boost efficiencies.
He said: "Running it with Saphira Chem-Free plates will reduce many man-hours spent processing. It improves the efficiency and quality."
Snowdonia Press buys Suprasetter A74 to cut platemaking bottleneck
Snowdonia Press's new owner Jim Mowatt has installed a Suprasetter A74 platesetter at the Welsh long-run litho printer he acquired in February.
