The newspaper will be available six hours before it hits the shelves in its homeland and will be made available to Qantas passengers on return flights to Australia.

Stroma is one of six Océ digital newspaper print sites, along with facilities in Singapore, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Switzerland.

Steve Brown, managing director at Stroma, said: "Everybody knows there are challenging times in the newspaper market, but companies such as News Corporation, together with other major publishers, know that producing newspapers digitally opens up other potential revenue streams.

"We are proud to be the pioneers of Océ’s Digital Newspaper Network, which now has six sites around the world. And through our own means, we’ve also extended our own portfolio of titles in London that now includes 75 titles across the globe."

More than 20m digitally printed newspapers have rolled off Océ machines with a quarter of those produced at Stroma's London site.