Gritty grey board

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.

Digital Printing

Closeup of greyboard

Grey board is a 100% post-consumer waste content recycled paper, often used as a base substrate for book covers, jigsaws and point of sale material. It's feels organic, gritty and fibrous - a perfect paper for these Urban Kitchen Gardener flyers and invites.   

We've written previously on lithographically printing to grey board where the printer's main concern is preventing wet ink "setting off" in the stack. As digital printing is a dry ink process you might think that digital printing on greyboard would be a solution to the problem of drying. Speak with most digital printers though and you'll hear the same story - the paper is too thick, too bitty, not suitable for our presses, etc.

At Calverts, we like to experiment with our papers and we're happy to say that 500mic greyboard prints a treat on our Konica Minolta BizHub 8000 digital press.

Print your gritty grey board here then - while stocks last.