63 Graphic Design Masters

Welcome to print.coop, the ink-on-paper pages from specialist printing and design co-operative, Calverts. We produce high quality, economical and sustainable, commercial print. We're experts in the latest and best litho and digital printing technology, as well as traditional craft applications. We know almost every commodity grade or 'designer' FSC® or recycled paper on the market, and can tell you about the most cost effective formats.

our approach

Why work with Calverts?

Print buyers come to Calverts for four main reasons - our creativity, quality, expert advice and track record in sustainable printing.

We have proper conversations with our clients, to help them realise their print ambitions - from fairtrade teaching tools and low carbon travel guides to art and science comics and high end books. There's almost no print idea we can't turn into reality.

We have a hard-earned reputation as 'green' printers. We're always investing, learning and sharing what we know about every aspect of low environmental impact communications.

And Calverts worker co-operative business model means we're able to improve continuously, by putting our money into state-of-the art repro and printing hardware, software and training - instead of paying dividends to outside owners and shareholders.

All this adds up to higher quality, higher impact print; timely delivery - and a better print experience.

Get in touch and we'll help you print something beautiful.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Standards & certification

Design and print affect the environment. Calverts has therefore implemented an environmental management system to the requirements of ISO 14001 to reduce our negative environmental impacts.

We are committed to comply with or exceed the requirements of environmental legislation and other environmental initiatives to which we subscribe. We are also committed to the prevention of pollution and continual improvement.

Our objectives are to:

1) Reduce our carbon emissions

2) Reduce the impact of paper use on natural resources

3) Improve resource efficiency and recycling

We have set up programmes to achieve this with targets and time scales.

Find out more about our environmental initiatives.

Books

Calvertistas past and present have studied or taught at the London College of Communication - mostly when it had a printing school. The LCC 2010 MA Graphic Design show catalogue was produced using 100% recycled papers supplied by McNaughtons, and K+E's Bio vegetable oil based inks. IMAG0083 Designed and produced by graduate students Sergio Garcia, Alice Bosc, Silvia Baz and Pau Dalmau, the book is in an elegant and economical 235mm x 170mm format, and is 136pp in extent, making space for two-page spreads for each of 63 entrants.

It's printed on Cocoon Offset for the text and the off-white Cyclus, a low bleach paper with visible dirt inclusions, for the blind embossed cover. The production team worked closely with Calverts and learned about paper selection and specifying, flight checking files, checking proofs and generally dealing with us lot, on a tight schedule. We proofed, printed, finished and delivered the catalogue in five days. Sergio Garcia LCOLLCOM_22806_1