Ex CPI figure David Booth helps daughter start up wide-format business

Following BJ Ball’s buyout of CPI, Booth took over the HP inks business in July, establishing Xscite Inks, supported by CPI’s former HP product and marketing manager, Angela Harper.

After picking up an ex-display stock printer from CPI, Booth has helped his 19-year-old daughter, Mollie, to start producing work for local clients, including schools and universities.

David Booth said: “When I exited CPI and took over the ink business, there was an opportunity to buy a stock printer they had. I bought that on the pretext that my university-age daughter had some spare time and might be interested in building a small business around that printer.”

Mollie added: “It is a great opportunity for me being so young. It is a good opportunity to get the kind of learning in business that a lot of people in 19-25 age range wouldn’t have.”

Mollie Booth is operating the HP Designjet L25500 from the same site as Xscite Inks.

Booth said he hoped his daughter’s start-up could pick up work that Xscite’s client base of larger signage printers “can’t afford to do but don’t want to upset their customers by not doing”.

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