The company made the investment partly as a result of increasing digital throughput that required it to upgrade its post-press capabilities. 

“The Polar 78 is five or six times faster and, coupled with its programmability, this allows us to cut at least three times the volume. Our digital work throughput has grown and we needed a guillotine better suited to the workload. Now one person can cut all the work in just a few hours where previously we had to run the machine for ten hours to complete the work,” said production director Stewart Powell.

The firm runs a selection of litho and digital presses, including a 10-colour perfecting Komori Lithrone S40P and a Kodak NexPress, as well as wide-format machines such as its Inca Onset S40 and machines from Canon and Roland DG. 

The Melksham, Wiltshire-based company was included in the recent ‘1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ list published by the London Stock Exchange and the Daily Telegraph.