The install, the culmination of an 18-month partnership between Blackwell and the machine’s manufacturer On Demand Books (ODB), will allow customers to print a raft of titles on-demand at the store.

It is claimed the process can be completed in less than five minutes with files available onsite or from a customers’ own CD or USB memory stick.

Printing is carried out at speeds of 105ppm with binding, trimming and colour-printed covers all completed on-site.

More than 400,000 books are available on the EBM, and more than one million titles are expected to be available by the end of this month.

The EBM was first deployed in-store in Australia, with Angus & Robertson introducing the so-called “ATM for books” to its Bourke Street store in Melbourne last year.

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