The £500,000 turnover, four-staff company prints exhibition and retail graphics, vehicle wraps and photo canvasses. It invested around £10,500 in the 1,626mm, four-colour, roll-fed machine, with Onyx ProductionHouse.

After buying the first machine in March, the company bought a second one to allow it to handle high-volume jobs with tight deadlines, said co-founder Nick Lindwall.

"Our capacity is absolutely massive compared to what it was. Now we’re getting around 15sqm per hour from each machine. Before we got 5-10sqm per hour.

"And we can run them overnight on a take-up system. We put a 50m role of paper on it then leave it to print on its own," he added.

The Epson SureColor SC-S30600 prints at a maximum of 29sqm per hour, with a maximum resolution of 1,440 dpi.

The two printers now handle around half of the company’s workload. Lindwall said that having the two printers meant the company could split jobs between them without any difference in print and colour quality.

He said the company could choose between different print modes according to time restrictions and the print quality needed.

"For really high-quality applications, like some retail interiors, we use the ten-pass mode, while in the two-pass mode – which is very fast – we can print a banner in minutes, depending on how close the viewers are to it," he added.

The machine’s media tensioning, is controllable from both front and rear, while a jack system allows single-handed job changeovers.

Ottimo Digital’s investment was part of an overall increase in capacity, which also invested £25,000 in moving from its original 500 sqm premises to its current 2,500 sqm site, in September.

"It’s a huge increase, both in terms of space for machinery and space for print finishing," said Lindwall.