The Product Line
The presses that make short runs pay.
Single-colour, zero make-ready, and digital-speed folding — every machine specified to your books.
The Timson T48A
Three-minute make-readies that make a 1,000-copy reprint worth winning — upgradeable in place to full ZMR.
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The Timson T48A ZMR
Zero Make-Ready. Plates change while the press prints at 550 metres per minute — run length stops deciding your margin.
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The Rotary FlexFold
Web-fed folding at 1.28 million pages an hour, with format changes nobody touches.
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Choosing
Which machine wins your work?
Two presses and a folding line — side by side.
The T48A
- Best for
- Single-colour books, mixed run lengths
- Changeover
- Plates in under 3 minutes
- Speed
- Good copy to good copy in minutes
- Waste
- Minimal
- Formats
- 16 / 32 / 48 / 64pp per form
- Substrates
- 20–90 lb — Bible stock to bulked trade
- Grows into
- Upgradeable in place to full ZMR
Zero Make-ReadyThe T48A ZMR
- Best for
- Short runs, high title counts
- Changeover
- Plates change while the press prints
- Speed
- 550 m/min — 1,800 fpm
- Waste
- Under 30 copies per changeover
- Formats
- 48 or 64pp from a single web, 1–2 colours
- Substrates
- Bible and dictionary stock to high-bulk offset
- Grows into
- Two-colour work, record-setting output
Digital FinishingThe Rotary FlexFold
- Best for
- Folding behind any press — Timson or digital
- Changeover
- Zero-touch format changes, no tools
- Speed
- 1,000 ft/min — 1.28M pages an hour
- Waste
- Minimum blank pages at every count
- Formats
- 8 / 16 / 32 / 64pp signatures
- Substrates
- 18–90 lb, webs 20″–60″
- Grows into
- Integrates with HP and Kodak digital engines
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Ready to maximise output?
Tell us the books you make — we'll specify the press around them.
Giovanni Piazza
Managing Director, Timsons