The specialist job needed a mailing line that could match and insert a 25pp book of raffle tickets and personalised letter.

To cope with these demands the six-station 9800, which was supplied by Mailing & Mechanisation, was specified with two extra feeding stations and PC-based OCR and barcoding reading.

Family-run Edward Thompson was founded in 1867. The firm now has three sites in Sunderland, with divisions that include commercial print, paper manufacture and a specialist bingo unit that handles both printed and electronic products and games.