Digital

As Xerox inches towards breaking into two standalone listed companies at the end of this year, it has unveiled the names of the post-split businesses.

GI Solutions Group has signed off a circa £5m spend to move into full-width high-speed inkjet web, as it looks to migrate more litho work to digital and significantly boost capacity.

EFI has boosted its textile portfolio with the acquisition of 2D/3D fashion design and prototyping software developer Optitex.

DST Systems is to sell its US customer communications business and is looking for a buyer for its £165m-turnover UK operation.

Xerox will decide on the CEO for its $11bn (£7.8bn) Document Technology business “in the coming weeks”.

Springfield Solutions is increasing its digital label printing capacity with its third Screen Truepress Jet L350UV inkjet label press.

Northside Graphics, a commercial and online printer, has launched a new online trade service the week after winning an e-commerce award.

One of London's largest reprographics and print houses ordered four new Canon digital toner production presses at Drupa to try and boost turnover by 20%.

Direct Services Gütersloh, owned by Bertelsmann, has ordered a Truepress Jet520ZZ from Screen (8a-C11) at Drupa.

Screen Europe vice-president of solutions and technology Tim Taylor left his role during Drupa and is understood to be taking up a new position at Ricoh.