The Book Press Company
Make every run length profitable.
Plates changed in under three minutes — or without stopping at all. Purpose-built for books in Kettering since 1896.
+450 installations worldwide
Trusted by book printers and integrated with the presses they run
Products
Zero Make-Ready.
Zero Make-Ready changes plates at full running speed — under 30 copies of waste, and the web never stops.
The T48A
Three-minute make-readies. Profitable from 1,000 copies.
- Plates changed in under 3 minutes
- 28–120gsm — Bible stock to bulked trade
- Upgradeable in place to full ZMR
The T48A ZMR
Change plates at full speed. Never stop printing.
- Plate changes at full speed
- 550 m/min (1,800 fpm)
- Under 30 copies waste per change
The Rotary FlexFold
Folds 1.28 million pages an hour behind your digital press.
- Zero-touch format changeovers
- 8–64pp with minimum blank pages
- 20″–60″ webs, 18–90 lb stocks
Built for every book
Presses built for the books you make.
One press family, specified to your exact product.
Trade & paperback
The books that fill best-seller lists — printed at minimum unit cost, in any quantity.
- High-bulk stocks up to 120gsm
- Best-seller quantities without best-seller lead times
- Zero make-ready keeps short reprints profitable
News
Latest news, fresh off the press.
Six Apprentices Start at Kettering — the First Intake in Over 15 Years
Three in machining, two in fitting and one in the foundry began at the Kettering works on 14 September — the first apprentice intake in more than fifteen years, and the start of the next generation of Timsons engineers.
Clays Orders Two Timsons Zero Make-Ready Presses for Bungay
Britain's biggest single-site book printer is putting two Zero Make-Ready presses into Bungay, with a Royal-size machine due early in 2027 and a B-format press behind it.
Timsons Joins the Magnum Group — and Press Manufacturing Stays in Kettering
The acquisition keeps Timsons building in Kettering, brings Steve Fyfe back to a company he once ran, and moves Rotary FlexFold production into the works.
Timsons
The book press company. Since 1896.
Talk to us about your next press, an upgrade, or support for the Timson press already on your floor.