NORWALK, CONN—

 Xerox pulls out of Fuji $6.1 billion deal. Jeff Jacobson CEO gone again with 5 directors. In another about face the two largest share holders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason have effectively taken over Xerox. They have appointed 5 new directors and  has  appoint John Visentin as CEO. Xerox is now expected to go up for sale or get sold off in pieces.

SCARBOROUGH—

WOODBRIDGE—

TORONTO—

Digital Signs & Printing has changed owners. Samuel Tang has bought the company from Ivan Sandrovcan. Digital Signs & Printing has been in business for about 12 years. It is a store front operation near Seneca Collage were they get a fair amount of work from the students.

SCARBOROUGH—

 Best Deal Graphics and Printing  announced the addition of their second Komori 40” Press to their lineup of sheetfed equipment. The LS640C comes loaded with Plate Changers and Komori’s productivity improvement software (KHS). The press is also outfitted with automation features that allow for fast make-readies and greater throughput. This press along with Best Deal's other Komori GL640C that was installed last fall. The 16,000 sheets per hour press is being installed by Komcan the Canadian distributor for Komori.

ROCHESTER—

 He is back. Jeff Jacobson is not going any where. Who is going to run Xerox has taken another turn. Last week Xerox was going to turn the management of the the company over it's two largest share holders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason after a court blocked the deal with Fujifilm. The majority of the board was going to resign and Jeff Jacobson CEO was stepping down.The deal is off and Xerox is going to fight the court order, engage in a share holder proxy battle and resume discussions with Fujifilm on a merger of Xerox and Fuji Xerox( partnership between Xerox and Fujifilm).

MELFORD, SASKATCHEWAN—

 Postmedia is closing it's Melford Saskatchewan plant and moving production to Saskatoon. The plant printed newspapers for the Melford Journal, Nipawin Journal and Northeast Sun. 15 full-and Part-time works  will loose their jobs. Were the presses are going has not been indicated. Transcontinental the other large newspaper printer has sold off all but 5 of it's newspapers.

OTTAWA—

RESTON ,VA— 

The Association for Print Technologies (NPES)  has announced a new study Print 2.0 . According to this  study, print packaging, publishing printing, and marketing & commercial printing, the largest industry segments, which account for a majority of the worldwide market, are projected to expand from $389bn in 2017 to $421bn in 2020, increasing 2.7% on average per year. Further, the study projects:print packaging will have healthy annual global growth of 4.5% through 2020;

NEW YORK—