Alpha Media Solutions (AMS) has acquired the business and assets of Keighley-based commercial print business Steffprint via a pre-packaged administration.

Wide format distributor Digital Print Innovations (DPI) will launch the MTEX 1800 textile printer, from Portuguese manufacturer POD, into the UK market at next week's Sign & Digital event.

Cohoes, NY-based Mohawk announced this week a major expansion of its lineup of synthetic papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for digital commercial printing.

Bavarian manufacturing firm IBS has acquired the former Plauen factory and assets of Manroland AG from its administrators, for an undisclosed sum.

HP has announced the Enhanced Color Pack upgrade for its Scitex FB7600 and upgraded FB7500 industrial flatbed printers.

BCQ Group joint managing director Tyrone Spence has sold his 50% stake in the 10m turnover business to fellow joint managing director Richard Knowles and launched a new company e-com2.

If government plans are realised, paper travel tickets will disappear, but this is not necessarily bad news for printers.

Kodak announced this week it has agreed to sell assets from its Document Imaging business to office equipment maker Brother Industries in a cash deal worth $210m (137m).

RnB Direct Mail has invested 80,000 in a nine-station Buhrs BB300 envelope inserting system with camera matching.