The machine has been bought to replace an aging guillotine and will handle large sheets produced by the firm’s KBA 142.
Bell & Bain managing director Ian Walker said: If your guillotine breaks down you aren’t going to be doing much. As a result, the guillotine needs to be hugely dependable.

The £8m turnover Glasgow-based company has spent the past five years investing in new machinery, including a Heidelberg Anicolor two years ago.

Walker added that the company was on an upward curve in 2010. He said: We have had a good start to 2010. We are marginally ahead of budget and ahead of last year. We print a lot of education books so we don’t yet know how the change of government will affect us, but at the moment things are good.