Amos Trust

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.

Charity

Spread_1

Spread_2

We've just printed and delivered More than a Game - The Story of the first Street Child World Cup.

Published by UK human rights organisation Amos Trust in partnership with Momentum Arts, and designed by Wilf Whitty at Ratiotype, the book documents the background and experiences of teams of children from seven countries, including the UK, as they came together in Durban last year to play football and highlight the campaign against the abuse and exploitation of children around the world.

The book uses vivid photography and text to drive home its messages in a powerful way, not least through the words of the children themselves. As Thamires Dos Santos, 15, from Sao Paolo, said: " Sometimes it is hell on the streets but when I play football I feel as if I am in heaven. Coming here and listening to the stories of other street children has made me realise that I'm not alone in struggling." Streetchild World Cup has an excellent website with additional resources.

More than a Game is B5 landscape format, 64pp, and we printed it on Howard Smith Paper's Think 4 White, which is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified and carbon balanced through the World Land Trust, an international conservation charity. ISBN 978-0-9517904-2-7 Price £10.00