The Buckingham-based company ran the IOC system with its Speedmaster 74 on a 115,000-run job to record
the savings.

Alan Pond, production director at BCQ, said: "Normally, I’d be putting this work on a cylinder or platen and at best get 2,500sph production. Instead, we were able to run the press up to 10,000sph and print the back inline with the complex die-cutting to achieve four times the productivity.

"We are now actively quoting for longer run die-cutting jobs because we have confidence in our ability to produce them competitively."

BCQ has 90 staff and has a turnover of around £11m. It predominantly runs HP, Xerox and Heidelberg presses.