The Rugely, Staffordshire-based commercial printer took delivery of the Mohr 80 in February from Watkiss Automation, which became a supplier of the range last August.

It replaced a Laser 66, whose speed Lichfield Printers managing director Glenn Andrews said was causing a bottleneck for the company.

And, given that January’s heightened throughput has continued throughout the first quarter of the year, the faster Mohr 80 has been a great help for the three-person company.

"If we hadn’t have got the Mohr 80 in before last week it would’ve been ridiculous. It was a joke how busy we were," Andrews said.

As testimony to the speed of the new guillotine, Andrews said that he had managed to cut 40,000 A5 flyers and three 10,000 lots of different letterhead formats in around two and a half hours, which he said would’ve taken him all morning previously.

He added: "We can get much more paper in the clamp with the Mohr and the time for the back gauge to move to the next cut is much less than with the Laser 66.

"This adds up to significant time saving; we reckon the average job that used to take an hour to cut can now be completed in half an hour."

German manufacturer Polar-Mohr, which is renowned for its range of Polar guillotines supplied by Heidelberg, launched the new range at Drupa, at which Renz signed the first UK distribution deal.

The range also includes the Mohr 56 and 66, the first of which were taken on by Ripe Digital and Altaimage respectively in the UK.Tweet