Due to be available in early 2012, the Berg-produced printer connects wirelessly to the internet and collects together information to create a personalised "newspaper".

The thermal printer can be placed anywhere in the home and set up to print at any point during the day.

Already Berg has signed up launch partners including the Guardian and Google.

Berg chief executive Matt Webb told PrintWeek that his company believed paper was valuable and the Little Printer could work alongside the web to provide a comprehensive news service.

He said: "Some of it is content driven, such as news, puzzles and weather, the kind of thing you will find in a local newspaper. But you can also include things like to-do lists, it is incredibly useful.

"We actually took more from newspapers than things like RSS feeds. With a feed it just brings everything together and gives it to you, but we learnt from newspapers the importance of using a brain to choose the content.

"So for instance if you have selected travel news and there are no problems you will just get a tick. But, if there are major problems we can flag that up in a big way."

The price of the machine, which will be programmable through smartphones, is yet to be announced.