Archived News
June 2007 – New York
Speedmaster 52 transferred from London to New York
In order to keep up with demand for 4 color work CFI New York is upgrading its pressroom with this additional SM52 from our London office.
June 2007 – New York
Senior Customer Service manager transfers from London to New York
Jo Leigh who has extensive experience of Customer Service work in London transfer to New York to oversee the growth of the amount of new clients
June 2007 – Hong Kong
Installation of second colour digital line
The first colour digital installation was so successful that CFI HK quickly decides to double its colour capacity.
May 2007 – New York
Installation of second colour digital line
Due to demand CFI New York are pleased to announce the installation of a second digital color device from Konica Minolta.
April 2007 – New York
Installation of colour digital
CFI New York are excited to install its first color digital device by Konica Minolta. This will able us to increase our service offering to new and existing clients.
April 2007 – Hong Kong
Colour digital installation
Hong Kong installs its first colour digital press. Capable of high quality colour the bizhub PRO 6500 allows CFI HK to cut the production time of variable colour documents
April 2007 – London
Wir-o binding brought in-house
To support the growth of wir-o bound report production CFI invests in a semi-automated wir-o bind production line.
January 2007 – London
Second five colour Nexpress acquired after the commercial success of the first Nexpress as well as another Digimaster 9150.
This creates a six Digimaster and two Nexpress digital Kodak facility, probably the largest in Europe.
January 2007 –Global
Online file submission and tracking system launched
A state of the art online file submission and tracking system has been rolled out to global research clients
December 2006 - Global
Sponsorship of the school in Africa continues
October 2006 - Hong Kong
Installation of second Digimaster
Such was the success of the first installation that a second Digimaster is added just 5 months later
September 2006 - Global
Redesign of Web-site
CFI website redesigned and updated to better show the unique global product and service offering
September 2006 - Hong Kong
Installation of Spinemaster
The Hong Kong subsidiary of Chris Fowler International takes delivery of their first Watkiss Spinemaster. All three Chris Fowler offices are now using this production technology. The Spinemaster allows medium pagination books from 32pp to 80pp to have the benefit of square binding. This is particularly important with digital printing as the binding of the finished product often looks inferior compared to traditional production techniques.
July 2006 - Hong Kong
New recruits into Customer Services and Operations
July 2006 - London
List of internal environmental changes implemented
May 2006 - Global
Award of global contract unidentified "bulge bracket" Investment Bank to sole supply seven site global production of research
May 2006 - Hong Kong
Installation of first Digimaster
In keeping with CFI's global commitment to provide a consistent production platform globally the HK office installs its first Digimaster.
April 2006 – London
After a successful three month trial an investment has been made in a five colour Nexpress from Kodak
April 2006 - London
Citipost moves next door
April 2006 - New York
Installation of first Kodak Digimaster with inline finishing
The New York subsidiary of Chris Fowler International takes delivery of its first Kodak Digimaster high speed printer. Able to deliver 110 pages a minute through an inline saddle-stitcher, it is doubling the digital print capacity of the operation and improving the quality of output. It will also have a Watkiss Spinemaster attached to produce “square” binding for medium sized books. It is intended that a second Digimaster will be added within the next few months.
March 2006 - London
Graduate recruitment program commences
First recruit joins from graduate recruitment program. Whilst CFI already employs graduates in an accounting function it’s desire to develop it’s own print managers of the future resulted in running a graduate recruitment program from which it’s first non-accounting graduate has commences.
March 2006 - London
Installation of New Speedmaster 74 CD 5 colour + coater
CFI upgrades to the latest Heidelberg CD technology with the aquistion of this new press. This augments CFI’s existing Litho platform with the heavier roller power for more effective for full colour commercial work and the ability to coat on-line.
January 2006 - London
Lamination comes in-house
Whilst a small financial the bringing of Lamination in-house means that CFI now has all key production stages in-house and under it’s direct control
February 2006 - London
FSC accreditation
As part of it’s corporate social responsibility drive, along with it’s proven environmental improvement, CFI has been the first of a handful of UK printers to acquire the rigorous international FSC accreditation which allows CFI to offer clients an environmentally sound paper.
January 2006 - London
Muller lines not replaced by Muller
After detailed research and testing, CFI has chosen to upgrade it’s old Muller stitchlines with the latest Heidelberg technology incorporating optical character devices to ensure 100% collation consistency. As always with CFI’s commitment to guaranteed delivery two lines have been acquired.
For more information please click on the link below:- www.uk.heidelberg.com/www/html/en/content/articles/news_events/051201_chrisfowler_international
December 2005 - Global
Sponsorship of the school in Africa instead of entertainment and gifts for clients
November 2005 - London
ISO 12647-2 colour management achieved
