Biddles' litho printing facility accommodates a wide variety of book sizes. Our Heidelberg sheet-fed presses can produce either monochrome, two- colour or four-colour perfected sheets of half-tone and text work to the very highest standards.

Our Nipson Varypress digital web press offers monochrome printing at a quality comparable to litho printing and is the most productive machine in its market running at 120 metres per minute.

Biddles Publisher's Choice service, using our digital web press, is ideal for publishers who are looking for a high quality, but cost-effective, smaller print run (between 100 and 750 copies).

This service provides customers with a faster return on capital employed, the option of shorter runs with quick reprints and a much greater range of run lengths at competitive unit costs.

Benefits of digital printing:
•	Cheaper printing costs for short-run books mean added opportunities for new or specialist authors
•	More competitive pricing on special interest books
•	Freedom to reproduce unexpectedly fast-moving titles quickly and efficiently
•	Publishers can economically order, say, two printings of 500 rather than one order of 1000
•	Security of being able to generate reprints virtually on demand
•	Risk of redundant stock is reduced and warehouse space is minimised

But is the print quality as good as litho?
The quality of text printing is comparable with traditional litho, but at an affordable cost.

Can the digital presses produce all book sizes?
Royal and Demy are the most popular book sizes, although all standard UK book sizes can be produced.