The inplant at Sutton Coldfield-based Central Law Training has installed an additional Horizon BQ270 single clamp perfect binder and APC 61 II guillotine from Litho Supplies division GAE, alongside the same machines it bought three years ago.

According to Central Law Training operations director Gavin Culley, the company was so overwhelmed with work that any down time on the existing equipment would have crippled production.

"It got to the point where I would be coming in and turning them on at 5.30am just to get the work done. Our critical period is in September and October so when we got through that and I was sure the demand was consistent I placed the order," he said.

Culley added that he based his decision on the same market research he did when he bought the first machines and the fact that operators don't have to be retrained on equipment from other manufacturers.

He said the machines' programmability and job memory functions made them ideal for the type of short-run work the company produces. Runs of tens or sometimes a few hundred copies mean the company does not batch similar jobs together, so the finishing kit has to be able to adjust to jobs as they come in.

The binder and guillotine have guide prices of between £22,000 and £26,000, and £13,500, respectively.

Central Law Training has a turnover of £50m and employs 12 people at its inplant, producing manuals for face-to-face and distance learning courses on Heidelberg Digimaster and Ricoh production machines, with up to 38m clicks a year.