Digital

Punch Graphics is to sell its majority stake in digital press manufacturer Xeikon in a deal that values the business at €185m (£160m).

EFI has recorded a record quarter in Q2, with sales growing 10% year-on-year to $180.3m (118m) and operating profit growing 19% to $23.4m.

A compact and click charge-free high-speed book press

A prototype billed as the world's first print-on-demand newsstand is using Ricoh technology and may be rolled out in the UK.

Birmingham-based direct mail and print company Baker Goodchild has installed a raft of new equipment to ramp up production.

Paperlinx is ramping up its Car Wrap Club initiative by targeting new members and developing a new website, all with a view to generating business for its customers.

Xeikon is poised to select a suitable European beta site for a new high-speed digital press using its Trillium liquid toner technology.

Communisis will effectively double the size of its transactional printing business as part of a deal to take over the in-house print operations of Lloyds TSB.

Web-to-print developer Vpress has taken on two new staff members and may recruit four more to meet a 40% growth in business.

Specialist web manufacturer Edale and post-press kit supplier AB Graphics have unveiled a jointly developed converting system for the HP Indigo 20000 digital press, the Digicon 3000.