Maurice Champion, managing director of parent RGL Print Group, chose the Komori machine after an 18-month planning process and demonstrations from a number of press manufacturers.

"We needed a press that could makeready and print consistently from one image to the next and achieve the exact colours our customers need each and every time," Champion said.

He added that the demonstrations replicated work conditions, with all manufacturers asked to demonstrate seven different high-quality posters using the same reflex blue.

"By lunchtime, Komori had done all seven jobs and the spectrophotometer had got the ink to the right blue within 30 sheets," he said. "The press does exactly what Komori says it does. During the testing, it didn't mark or track and the smoothness was perfect."

The company has also purchased a new guillotine, folders and stitching line alongside the new B1 press and spent £200,000 on pre-press.

RGL employs 30 staff and had a £3m turnover last year. Its work ranges from short-run luxury brochures to stationery, business cards, direct mail and specialist finishing for a portfolio of 600 customers, including Nottingham Forest football club, Office Depot, Vision Express and Derbyshire Building Society.