The company installed a JobFeed system at its Birmingham facility in early 2008, which has led to both JobFeed and JobStack equipment being added at its sites in Cardiff, Teeside and Blantyre.

According to Alex Henderson, general manager at Birmingham and Cardiff, the machines have enabled the company to cut down on the number of casual staff employed at the sites.

He said: "We installed a JobFeed at Birmingham and that one unit alone reduced the casual workforce by 25% – it paid for itself within nine months. 

"We've also increased productivity. When manually feeding the magazines, supplements and leaflets that go regularly into the weekend titles to disk, we achieved speeds of less than 20,000 copies an hour.

"The mobile JobFeed unit will easily handle 30,000 copies an hour and will achieve this with great reliability week after week, with no variation in throughput."