Real Digital International (RDI) has recorded a near 300% increase in pre-tax profits, to 3.1m, for the year to 31 December 2011.

Finishing equipment manufacturer Autobond has appointed agent Binderhaus to represent the company in Germany.

Prizmatic Print Solutions has installed a Uchida Aerocut Quatro to run alongside a new Canon 9070 Pro.

Kodak has posted a pre-tax loss of $300m (193m) in its second quarter results, a 54% increase on last year's $195m loss, as it revealed total creditor claims had reached $20.5bn.

Shire Leasing has launched a new finance scheme specifically to help printers finance investment in software and other "intangible" assets such as training and consultancy.

Leslie Clark, a director of historic paper merchant John D Henderson, has died aged 92.

Creasestream, the creasing equipment manufacturer and sister company to Tech-ni-fold, expects to sell more than 250 Creasestream Minis in the US in its first year of release alone.

Tipa, an Israeli start-up focussed on the development of green packaging, has announced a 100% biodegradable, multi-layered film designed to produce liquid-carrying pouches.

BGP has responded to an uptake in contract cover work by investing in a Komori System 38 SII press for its Bicester facility.

Canon has unveiled two new additions to its ImagePrograf series of wide format printers for technical and architectural applications, the iPF760 and iPF765.