The government has launched the first phase of its much anticipated Business Bank with a 300m investment programme for SMEs.

EFI's SmartSign Analytics (SSA) tool for monitoring and analysing the consumer response to individual signs could be "a licence to print money" for early adopters from the signange sector.

Danish flexo machinery manufacturer Tresu Group has unveiled its new Tresu F10 iCon Ink Supply System for ink circulation in central impression flexo presses.

Ricoh has announced a raft of updates to its software portfolio, including four updates to its TotalFlow workflow and a new cloud-based marketing services suite, MarcomCentral.

Less than six months after it was acquired by private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP), Presstek is going through a restructuring that includes a number of redundancies.

The board of the US Postal Service (USPS) announced this week that it has directed US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe not to go ahead with plans to end Saturday delivery this August.

Arjowiggins Graphic and Antalis has launched a video campaign detailing the fantasy land of Paperworld in a bid to raise the profile of recycled papers.

Paperlinx showed off a plethora of equipment and substrates on the first leg of its Discover open house, with 350 printers expected to attend by close of play today.

Paper manufacturer Antalis is exhibiting at specialist greeting card show, Progressive Greetings Live for the first time.

Xaar's share price has jumped nearly 17% to 490p (prev close 420p) after it announced that it was increasing its expectations for the year.

Falling print revenues at the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) have dragged the publisher's media division into negative growth, according to its latest trading update.