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The government is to provide an extra £250m to the British Business Bank to lend to small businesses, on top of the £1bn already allocated.

Prontaprint Walsall has bought an Esko Kongsberg i-XE10 digital cutting table, which rounds off a £400,000 investment programme to refocus the business.

Craftprint has cranked up its digital output by installing a new Konica Minolta C6000 digital printer.

Pureprint Group has added a feather to its security management and data-handling bow by notching up the globally approved ISO 27001 standard and the DMA’s DataSeal accreditation.

HH Global has been appointed to a government taskforce of 100 SMEs from the creative industries to target £500m of overseas contracts in the next three years.

Canon has unveiled the latest version of its Prismaproduction automated workflow and output management system, version 5.

Rapidity signed for a Duplo DC-745 multi-finishing system on the opening day of Duplo’s London Calling 5i event this week and revealed plans for future investments in web-to-print and achieving ISO...

Envelope and greetings cards manufacturer Regent Group is in consultation with staff over plans that it says will lead to “a significant number of redundancies”.

Kodak has dismissed claims made by an intellectual property consultancy that it has retained valuable patents that were supposed to become the property of the Kodak UK Pension Plan.

Agency Synkcreative has invested £200,000 in a new Edale Beta six-colour UV flexo label-press to boost its production firepower.