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.

Contact Us:
9-10 The Oval
Bethnal Green
London E2 9DT
T +44 (0)20 7739 1474
info@calverts.coop

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our approach

Why work with Calverts?

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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

Iso 14001 certified logo

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.

Print

The benefits of press passing

Eddies Cafe

It is often the case that much of what we print is produced without the client being present. However, one of the advantages of Calverts being based in inner London is that local clients can press-pass their work.
 

Printing plates will have been made by this stage so  it could be expensive to make sweeping changes to approved artwork however press-passing does offer a cost-effective opportunity to check colour reproduction on the actual paper stock.
 

Please be aware that colour can only be adjusted in tracks parallel to the direction in which the sheet comes off the press. So if you were to increase the cyan (for example) in a picture at the grip edge of the sheet then everything that follows behind that on the sheet will also be affected.
 

It’s easier to see this on press than explain it here so why not give us a call, an email, or even a job to show you what we mean!
 

Press-passing decisions should be made quite quickly. The press is already running and costs will be based on uninterrupted print production.
 

While we do try to give accurate time-slots for clients to press-pass their work occasionally there may be a little bit of a wait. We’ll try to entertain you as best we can but if you should get bored, hungry, or both then Eddie's Café, just around the corner from us on Mare Street, comes highly recommended... 


Photo by Emily Webber www.londonshopfronts.com


Addendum
Since this post first appeared Eddie's Cafe is no more. It's been replaced by Hackney Bureau, which doesn't look much from the outside however it does a very tasty Hackney Sour Dough sandwich, locally sourced from East London's finest E5 Bakehouse.

Hackney Bureau