Chipping Norton based Gowans & Son Printers has installed a new Horizon A4 Landscape StitchLiner Mark III, upgrading its in-house bookmaking equipment.

Supplied through Currie Group, the fourth-generation owners Chad and Andrew Gowans say they picked the StitchLiner Mark III to up the quality of finished books.

Chad Gowans says, “We are not heavily involved in bookmaking, but we do a few publications. The purchase was more about lifting the quality of what we are doing, leaving a nicer trimmed product when finished; though it is quicker too.

“We thought it was the best machine we could get, without going to a Muller Martini.

“It has been in the shop for a couple of months now, and I would recommend it to other printers. Currie Group has been helpful too, with everything we have wanted. A couple of early teething issues were sorted out, and the backup service was easy to find when we had a problem.”

Bernie Robinson, managing director, Currie Group, says, “The brothers there, Chad and Andrew Gowans, have been a long time user of Horizon products for many years now. They saw a need for an A4 landscape StitchLiner. Their relationship with Currie is important. We see them as a go-getting organisation, and we are happy to have them on board once again.”

Gowans & Son Printers is a fourth generation, family owned printing company which has been in operation for over 70 years.

It was founded in 1932 by HC Gowans in a small factory in Sussex Street Sydney. The company moved to Greenacre in 1964, and to its current premises in Chipping Norton in 1995.

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