Print for Victory – Book Publishing in England 1939-1945 | Calverts Co-operative: Design and Print

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.

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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

Print for Victory – Book Publishing in England 1939-1945

printforvictory It’s not often Radio 4 features an article on sustainable printing but in this week’s Front Row discussed the printing industry’s efforts to improve its environmental performance (around 11 minutes in @ http://bit.ly/1ubZo9). During the course of the programme this book by Valerie Holman was mentioned.

Drawing extensively on previously unpublished archive material, Print for Victory reveals much about a period virtually untouched by historians. I discovered that, at a time of great austerity and hardship, Germany had six times as many bookshops as America, barley was a major crop used in paper making and Australia had a secret list of 500 banned titles including Brave New World and A Farewell to Arms.

Was also reminded to take another look at Mandy Haggith’s book ‘Paper Trails’ which looks at the devasting effects of (and solutions to) unsustainable paper consumption in the developed world.