Expected print savings from the sale of the Perth Sunday Times to Seven West Media have come in the form of the loss of almost 100 jobs at News Corp's Perth Print.

Operations managing director Geoff Booth told GXpress that the jobs of 46 full time and 50 FTE casuals - employed through an agency - are being cut.

Staff were reportedly told at a meeting this week.

The print site at Canning Vale - home to three manroland Geoman presses and Ferag mailroom equipment dating to 1990 - "will be decommissioned and eventually sold," Booth says. It belongs to News Corp Australia and was not part of the transaction.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission gave the go-ahead last month to the deal, agreed in May, under which Seven West would acquire the Sunday Times and News' perthnow website.

Seven West's West Australian Newspapers will take on production of the titles within the Community Newspapers - which News and Seven West own jointly - currently printed at Perth Print, as well as News Corp national daily The Australian and Weekend Australian on six days.

Seven West has spare capacity at its Osborne Park print site, anchored on KBA Colora/Comet coldset and heatset presses and Ferag mailroom equipment installed new in 2009 and designed to cope with products which then rose as high as 560 pages. Circulation figures last year put the Sunday Times at 188,480, and that of Seven West's six-day daily the West Australian at 149,186.

Pictured: The Sunday Times was Rupert Murdoch's second acquisition as he began building News Limited (picture News Corp)