Halstan in multimillion strategic spend for book growth Darryl Danielli Thursday, May 6, 2021 Halstan has upgraded its production firepower with a circa £2.5m spend to be "best in class”, with a new sheetfed inkjet press and automated book line taking centre stage in its diversification strategy. Canon VarioPrint iX3200, centrepiece of strategic spend The Amersham, Bucks-based business installed a Canon VarioPrint iX3200 B3 sheetfed inkjet last month. “Pre-pandemic we identified that we wanted to modernise the factory, put in a highly automated workflow and during Covid we did it, and the iX is an important part of that,” said Halstan CEO Rupert Smith.