The company, established in 1997, has had the 1,370 mm-wide printer machine installed by large-format supplier Atech.

According to Doug McBride, sales director at Fingerprint, the Roland printer will be used to fulfil a number of different roles within the company.

He said: "We can create textures and contours, prototype boxes and packaging and print on all sorts of materials, including lenticular-type materials, plastics and cling.

"The Roland LEC-540 helps us recreate innovative print designs, which we then scale up for our main production runs."

Fingerprint's new machine can print on a range of substrates that includes metallic and synthetic papers, foils, BOPP, PE and PET film.

A primary reason for the new investment was to improve flexibility at the company, an attribute McBride said would help the firm win more work.

"The reason we win most of our jobs is due to our own flexibility and ability to create really unusual print effects. The Roland machine will help us do this more efficiently," he added.

In addition to packaging prototypes, the company produces a variety of printed products including leaflets, folders, postcards, brochures, programmes, marketing material, conference collateral and prospectuses.