x:talk

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.

Campaigns

We've just printed a report from x:talk (pronounced cross talk) entitled Human Rights, Sex Work and the Challenge of Trafficking. Released on November 17, the report describes how the UK’s anti-trafficking policy has created new crimes around the selling of consensual sexual services between adults and how its implementation has resulted in an increase in arrests and convictions for sex workers and others in the sex industry. It finds that many undocumented migrants are unable or unwilling to exercise their rights as workers, or access basic services such as healthcare.

The x:talk project is also set up as a sex worker-led workers co-operative which runs free English language classes for those working in the sex industry as it regards the ability to communicate as a fundamental tool for sex workers to work in safer conditions, to organise and to socialise with each other. In addition to providing free English classes to migrant sex workers x:talk support critical interventions around issues of migration, race, gender, sexuality and labour, participate in feminist and anti-racist campaigns and are active in the struggle for the rights of sex workers in London, the UK and globally. There's more information on the issues, and a PDF download of the report, at www.xtalkproject.net