The two-staff company was formed after director Craig Parmenter and his business partner decided to strike out on their own after a combined 42 years at a rival Cambridge print firm.

"The banks didn't take any interest, they wouldn't take us on. In fact they gave us bad advice. So we had to find private investors and our own money," said Parmenter.

The Cambridge-based company has installed a Mimaki JV33 printer and a Seal 62 base laminator supplied by Robert Horne that enables the company to attack a range of markets from exhibition work to vehicle graphics, stickers and canvas.

Parmenter said: "The finished print from the solvent-based JV33 easily outshines the competition. In its higher print mode it is not far away from matching the top-end aqueous printers."

He said that around four in five customers are new as opposed to clients from their previous employer and that business is growing in a number of areas including vehicle wrapping and banner work.

"Clients are mainly local businesses but we have done work further afield. We recently produced a 10m time-line wall graphic for a well known biomed company in London. This is the sort of work I'd like to do more of."