The Greenwich-based company installed a Horizon AFC566FG automated B2 combination folder with a PSX-56 press stacker.

According to joint owner Lee Masters, who runs the company with Rob Easton, Aspect Press is now more confident that it can take fast-turnaround work on.

He said: "We got a job for 125,000 eight-page A5 folded booklets that had to be delivered four days later. Previously we would have sent the work out expecting to meet the deadline, but never quite sure. This time we knew for a fact we would. Now we can control quality and costs.

"Apart from taking the ‘muscle’ out of the job, the PSX-56 turns the entire folding process into a genuine one-person operation. Recently one operator produced 400,000 6-page DL booklets, 2-up and split down the middle, boxed and packed on a pallet on her own."

The 40,000sph AFC54/56 series features a high profile colour icon-based touch-screen, while Aspect’s model is equipped with six buckles and cross knife.

Masters added: "It keeps the value of a job in-house; before we were sending up to £7,000 worth of folding work out every month."