Retro Ink for letterpress

Letterpress Ink, lost art or possibly not? just jealously guarded maybe. Little blast from the past after reading some of the urgent posts herein! Fixed hot metal Monotype machines for a local progressive firm that were heavily into continuous stationery machines, (and still are) web fed, MULTI head, L/press, wrap around rubber stereos, perfing, sprocket hole punching, magnetic ink for cheque,s numbering, etc etc. >>Follows, as a result of little in depth investigation and distant memory, prompted by an article in our “Printweek” by Mr Harry Mackintosh, (Speedspools) Edinburgh, speaking of “CODIMAG” looked up that Name! and I quote, slightly abbreviated re Codimag, “TODAY, the VIVA 340 Range, available as real combination press, L/Press, Waterless Offset, in line options, Hot foil, U.V. Flexo, Rotary die cutting, screen printing, embossing, laminating.” The publicity states that 270 presses are operational in Australia, South Africa, North and South America, Eastern Europe etc. Just a thought, not a fact, with the above spec, could they have cracked the code for retro L/press ink and could they be bribed or co-ersed to release the secrets. O.K. they may well say “promise to buy a 2,000,000 million Dollar Codimag machine and we may release the formula”!!!>> pass Go to plan “B”

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