The event, on 17 October at the MC Motors venue in Dalston, east London, will include a screening of Linotype: The Film, which UCI helped fund through Kickstarter, and two of UCI’s nine rescued Linotype machines, including an operational C4SM that will be linecasting on the evening. UCI was founded in Dalston by Stanley Wilson in 2007 to manufacture and sell vintage industrial lighting under the Historic Lighting brand; he later embraced historic printing and rescued and restored the UK’s last remaining collection of original Linotype machines. Wilson said: “We own seven Intertype C4s and two C4SMs. Two of the C4s are shot and cannibalised for spare parts but the rest are alive and kicking. The event will consist of a screening of Linotype: The Film and an after-party featuring our pride and joy C4SM, which will be operational and linecasting on the evening. “We’ll also be exhibiting a non-functioning C4 for guests to safely look, touch and generally marvel at. Guests can also eat, drink and create their own souvenir prints from hot metal slugs on the evening.” Original artwork from Print Club London artists will be exhibited and available for sale on the night, alongside vintage industrial lighting creations from Historic Lighting. For more information and to register visit urbancottageindustries.com/party. UCI, which now employs more than 20 staff, is based in a converted former trouser factory in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. The company will soon be launching a range of Linotype and letterpress prints of Print Club London artwork via the website urbancottageindustries.com....

The event, on 17 October at the MC Motors venue in Dalston, east London, will include a screening of Linotype: The Film, which UCI helped fund through Kickstarter, and two of UCI’s nine rescued Linotype machines, including an operational C4SM that will be linecasting on the evening. UCI was founded in Dalston by Stanley Wilson in 2007 to manufacture and sell vintage industrial lighting under the Historic Lighting brand; he later embraced historic printing and rescued and restored the UK’s last remaining collection of original Linotype machines. Wilson said: “We own seven Intertype C4s and two C4SMs. Two of the C4s are shot and cannibalised for spare parts but the rest are alive and kicking. The event will consist of a screening of Linotype: The Film and an after-party featuring our pride and joy C4SM, which will be operational and linecasting on the evening. “We’ll also be exhibiting a non-functioning C4 for guests to safely look, touch and generally marvel at. Guests can also eat, drink and create their own souvenir prints from hot metal slugs on the evening.” Original artwork from Print Club London artists will be exhibited and available for sale on the night, alongside vintage industrial lighting creations from Historic Lighting. For more information and to register visit urbancottageindustries.com/party. UCI, which now employs more than 20 staff, is based in a converted former trouser factory in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. The company will soon be launching a range of Linotype and letterpress prints of Print Club London artwork via the website urbancottageindustries.com....

The new orange ink gives a gamut volume increase of 10%, with a Pantone Colour coverage increase of 6% and corporate colour coverage increase of 7%. Managing director David Nicholas reported that this upgrade has allowed Fosco’s to not only match orange colours with greater accuracy, but “deep burgundies right through to light yellows, light oranges and reds too”. “This is extremely important for our customers who need to match brand colours as closely as possible,” he said. “In the past we tried to hit those colours with CYMK and customers would say ‘that’s acceptable, we understand you can’t get any closer with CYMK’ but now we’ve raised the bar.” He added: “Now work produced on the Scitex matches exactly the work on our Indigo press which has the orange ink, so we can hit brand colours throughout the whole range whether its small format or large format prints.” The orange upgrade is also allowing the company to just generally enhance the vibrancy of prints coming off the FB7600. “We are showing existing customers what we can do now and people are looking at that and are quite amazed. Of course not every job going through the business is orange but the vibrancy is adding to other Pantone colours and images,”,” said Nicholas, adding that this offering has also already won the firm new business. The upgrade has been available worldwide since 1 May and can be applied to the Scitex FB7600 or to Scitex FB7500s that have installed the FB7500 industrial press upgrade kit. This allows two dormant ink beams to be utilised, with a light black ink upgrade also available. Fosco’s is currently in negotiations with HP about adding the light black which, according to HP, creates smoother grey solids and improves neutrality. The company is set on upgrading its other FB7600 to run orange. Fosco’s also benefitted from a speed and quality upgrade as part of this package, enabling the FB7600 to print two and a half times as fast at the same quality. Installing the new ink was relatively straight forward, reported Nicholas, taking three or four days before the press was back up and running. He said: “Being the first printer in Europe to offer this was big for us, as it shows how forward-thinking Fosco’s is in wanting to be out there in front when it comes to pioneering new technologies.”...

The new orange ink gives a gamut volume increase of 10%, with a Pantone Colour coverage increase of 6% and corporate colour coverage increase of 7%. Managing director David Nicholas reported that this upgrade has allowed Fosco’s to not only match orange colours with greater accuracy, but “deep burgundies right through to light yellows, light oranges and reds too”. “This is extremely important for our customers who need to match brand colours as closely as possible,” he said. “In the past we tried to hit those colours with CYMK and customers would say ‘that’s acceptable, we understand you can’t get any closer with CYMK’ but now we’ve raised the bar.” He added: “Now work produced on the Scitex matches exactly the work on our Indigo press which has the orange ink, so we can hit brand colours throughout the whole range whether its small format or large format prints.” The orange upgrade is also allowing the company to just generally enhance the vibrancy of prints coming off the FB7600. “We are showing existing customers what we can do now and people are looking at that and are quite amazed. Of course not every job going through the business is orange but the vibrancy is adding to other Pantone colours and images,”,” said Nicholas, adding that this offering has also already won the firm new business. The upgrade has been available worldwide since 1 May and can be applied to the Scitex FB7600 or to Scitex FB7500s that have installed the FB7500 industrial press upgrade kit. This allows two dormant ink beams to be utilised, with a light black ink upgrade also available. Fosco’s is currently in negotiations with HP about adding the light black which, according to HP, creates smoother grey solids and improves neutrality. The company is set on upgrading its other FB7600 to run orange. Fosco’s also benefitted from a speed and quality upgrade as part of this package, enabling the FB7600 to print two and a half times as fast at the same quality. Installing the new ink was relatively straight forward, reported Nicholas, taking three or four days before the press was back up and running. He said: “Being the first printer in Europe to offer this was big for us, as it shows how forward-thinking Fosco’s is in wanting to be out there in front when it comes to pioneering new technologies.”...

“We’re moving to a decentralised model. We want to put the customer back at the heart of what we do and devolving power to the branches is the best way to do that,” said Andrew Price, Paperlinx chief executive. Each of the eight branches will be headed by a general manager who, according to Price, “will be totally responsible for that branch and everything goes on within it”. “The people who make the decisions on delivery, pricing, etc will be out in the branches where they will have a better understanding of the customers’ needs. We want to empower the people who are closest to the customer.” Price added that the branches would work within company guidelines, on things like pricing, to ensure that the business doesn’t revert to being in competition with itself. Price added that Paperlinx is currently recruiting the new general managers, who will all report directly to Andy Buxton, managing director of Paperlinx’s Commercial Print division. Last November, the company announced it would centralise account management from its regional offices to its Moulton Park, Northampton head office. The centralised account management team will now be largely disbanded, with staff redistributed across the regional sales offices in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Ipswich, Midlands (Moulton Park), Shoreham, Bristol and London. However, Price said that some key corporate and large group accounts, would continue to be managed by head office. “There should be no job losses as a result of this decision, in fact we’re actually creating new roles – which is probably a first for a while,” added Price. The sales strategy U-turn was partly in response to a Paperlinx customer survey. “What the [survey] feedback told us was that customers want to talk to a decision-maker; they don’t want to talk to someone who then has to talk to head office and get approval,” said Price. “The idea is that we will empower branches to make decisions on the spot. The industry has changed, our customers don’t have weeks to turn around jobs, they have hours and we need to make sure we have a business model that supports that.” The winners of the iPad Minis up for grabs in the survey were Miles Barnett, Park Communications; Dave Mann, Newman Thompson; Pennie Harwin, Octoprint; Adrian Smith, Kolorkraft; David Halton, Embassy Press London; and Ian Whitelegg, Prime Impressions....