Both the M1 Colour Page Printer and the Speedstar 3000 Colour Label Printer are on AMS’s stand (A112).

The Speedstar 3000 is a Hungarian-built machine, manufactured by Budapest-based OWN-X.

It runs at 300mm/second at 1,600dpi in mono and is capable of full 1,600dpi colour print at 150mm/second. Print width on the £8,450 machine runs from 50mm to 222mm and it can handle substrates from 0.13mm to 0.33mm thick.

AMS managing director Kevin McPheat said: "Compared to other machines I have seen around here, I would say it is around 50 times faster, you are paying for speed.

"A good example is a sandwich packaging manufacturer, you have 600 sets of sandwiches, each one with a different weight, different ingredients, even different customers. There is no need to worry about getting labels in. Put one of these machines in your factory and the labels can be produced in-house."

The machine also has an onboard computer monitor that informs the user about the amount of ink that has been used so that they can work out the cost of a job.

The M1 Colour Page Printer is also powered by an Memjet print engine designed by Chicago-based Astro.

It has been designed for short-run, variable-data print and McPheat said it has a number of potential uses.

He said: "It’s ideal for short-run envelopes – addresses and graphics can all be personalised – but it can also produce other products, such as low-cost greetings cards."

The £12,950 machine runs up to 3,600 A4 sheets or 9,000 envelopes per hour at 1,600 dpi. It can handle paper from 0.1mm to 0.5mm.

McPheat added that the machine’s maintenance and inkheads were not currently on click charges, but it was something that AMS is looking at.