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Hero lines
- Ink on paper since 1988
- Print that matches the proof
- Short runs, long memory
Litho and digital under one roof, with a prepress team that opens your files properly before anything touches a plate.
Runs from 50 to 500,000, on stock from 80 gsm bible paper to 400 gsm board — plus a colour proof you can hold.
We will tell you when digital works out cheaper than litho, even though litho is the machine we would far rather be running!
Team bios
Gerard Vandermeulen — Managing director
Gerard started here at seventeen, feeding a two-colour press, and bought the business from its founder in 2009. He still walks the floor twice a day and can tell from the sound alone when a machine is about to want attention. He signs off every reprint personally.
Wilhelmina Achterberg — Prepress supervisor
Wilhelmina has opened somewhere north of 60,000 files and is no longer surprised by any of them. She will telephone you about a missing 3 mm bleed rather than guess, and she keeps a wall of framed disasters, each one caught before it reached a plate.
Tobias Frei — Print manager
Tobias runs the litho hall and the colour matching. He has an unnerving ability to name an ink density by eye and then be proved right by the spectrophotometer. Twenty-two years in the trade, four of them abroad, and a deep dislike of rush jobs on uncoated stock.
Quotes
“They caught a colour-space error in our annual report at nine in the evening and rang the designer directly. The job still shipped on Friday. I only found out about any of it afterwards!”
Marleen de Groot, Communications Manager
“We moved 60,000 catalogues here after two years of arguing with a cheaper supplier about colour. The first proof came back matching, and it has matched on every run since.”
Henrik Lauridsen, Head of Retail Marketing
“I asked for “something that feels expensive without being expensive” and they came back with an uncoated 300 gsm and a blind emboss. It added €0.11 a copy and the client thinks we doubled the budget.”
Aurélie Chastain, Studio Director
FAQ answers
What file format should we send?
A press-ready PDF with 3 mm bleed, crop marks, embedded fonts and images at 300 dpi at final size. If you have something else — a layout file, a spreadsheet, a photograph of an old business card — send it anyway. We have seen far worse and can usually work with it.
How many copies before litho is cheaper?
Somewhere between 800 and 1,200 for a typical A5 job, though the crossover moves with the stock, the number of colours and the finishing. We quote both ways as standard, so you can see where the lines cross instead of taking our word for it.
Can we see a proof before the run?
Always. A digital proof is free and arrives by email; a calibrated hard proof on the final stock costs €45 and is the only proof we will guarantee colour against. For anything carrying a brand colour, take the hard proof — it is the cheapest insurance in the building.
Do you deliver, and how quickly?
Our own van covers the region twice daily and delivery is included on orders above €300. Further afield we use a pallet network, and we will tell you the price difference between a 24-hour and a 48-hour service before you choose one.
Closing lines
Send the artwork, or send the idea and let us tell you what it would cost to print. Quotes come back within four working hours on weekdays, with stock, run length and finishing itemised separately so you can see exactly where the money goes.
If you have never stood beside a press while your own job comes off it, ask for a tour. It takes twenty minutes, and it changes how people design for print — usually for the better.
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