The investment was finalised at Drupa last week (8 May). It follows the installation of two Indigo presses, which created a division focussing on high-quality colour presentation material and documents.

According to Hobs director Christie O'Brien, it was for this work that the company approached Watkiss.

He said: "Much of the work that we produce for our clients is printed on a minimum of 160 or 170gsm stock, frequently with high paginations, and a conventional booklet maker wouldn’t handle this work.

"We also produce some very long documents – as much as 15,000 pages. We were looking for better presentation than wire-binding, and the SquareBack finish of the Watkiss PowerSquare provided the perfect solution."

The Watkiss PowerSquare 200 is a booklet making system that stitches folds and trims to produce square-spined SquareBack books up to 200 pages thick.

It features fully automatic settings for different book size and pagination, including variable stitch leg length for varying book thickness. It is available as offline, nearline and online systems.