News Corp Australia's Darwin outpost, the NT News has added the capacity to trim and stitch magazine-format products.

The print centre is reported to be chasing real estate advertisers and government printing contracts following the relocation of a Müller Martini Bravo stitcher-trimmer from the former Cairns Post print site.

News moved printing of the Post and associated titles to Townsville earlier this year, closing the Cairns plant.

At the Northern Territory News site, the Bravo T line can handle up to four sections - which can come from the KBA Comet newspaper press there or elsewhere - and a cover, stapling and trimming them before delivery via a Pratico stacker.

It is being used for a relaunch of the paper's weekend property guide.

General manager Greg Thomson says the facility will enable the site to print products other than just newspapers: "It means we can experiment with different stock variations to produce whole range of different booklets sizes for both our advertising customers, as well as our general publication customers."

The stitcher-trimmer will handle tabloid, quarto, A4, DL and smaller products if required, and there are hopes of contract work following closure of the government printing office.

The Alice Springs Centralian Advocate and Fairfax Media's The Katherine Times are also printed in Darwin, as a number of other regional weekly papers.