The Nottingham-based company began using the wide-format printer, with GrandRIP + by Caldera, in May 2010. It is adding three or four new clients a month and reported a 35% increase in sales on last year, according to managing director Paul Manson.

Manson said: "To run the FB7500 and the extra capacity worked out cheaper, in real costs, than a £6,000 second-hand two-colour screenprint press like the one we already have."

"Migrating work from analogue to digital has not only increased our production capacity and enabled us to grow, but it has also increased the services we can offer customers, and positioned us well for the future," he added.

The six-colour printer uses UV-curable pigmented inks and an X2 piezoelectric printhead, printing high definition at up to 500sqm – or 95 full-size sheets – an hour.

Print & Display, which has 23 employees, plans to invest in a second FB7500 and other finishing equipment in the future, according to Manson. "If we wanted to put another HP in we would have to move factory," he added.

Print & Display was set up in 2003. The company turns over around £3m a year and its product range includes free-standing display units, dump bins, display stands and pop-up displays.