All About Print Craft
Since 1963 Print Craft has been providing our clients with creative commercial printing solution that meet their specific needs. We are an employee driven, customer focused company that specializes in building lasting partnerships with our valued clients, discovering their printing needs and creating customized solutions that optimize their communication efforts.
We are committed to providing quality products and reliable services, and wish to partner with companies that share this vision for success.
Mission
Print Craft is an employee driven and client focused organization with a passion to provide unsurpassed client satisfaction. We will partner with local clients to develop customized solutions to mana, produce and distribute printed communications. The resulting sustainable profit growth will provide security and opportunity for our employees.
Core Values
Print Craft emphasizes fairness, honesty and respect with its employees, customers and business partners.
Loyalty is built by promoting responsibility, teamwork and a positive attitude to provide opportunities for innovation, growth and challenging work.
Technology
To meet our own demand for premium products and services, we realize that the equipment we house in our facility must mirror this goal. We have made calculated decisions to invest in the best equipment available to optimize our capabilities. Our prepress equipment consists of state of the art computers and scanning equipment, and our press department is comprised of some of the most innovative and versatile presses and finishing equipment. A detailed summary of our equipment can be viewed below:
(PDF)G7® Master Qualified
Print Craft has been G7® Master Qualified since March, 2010 on its press equipment and certified proofs. G7® Master Status indicates that Print Craft has calibrated its equipment and systems to G7® gray balance and neutral tone curves and is capable of delivering G7® proofs and print products. G7® specifies the components of an image that define a similar "visual appearance" to the human eye. This is accomplished by defining a colormetric definition for gray balance and specifying a gray balance in the midtones, image weight and image contrast from the highlights to the shadows. G7® is a device independent definition of grayscale appearance and a calibration method for adjusting any CMYK imaging device to simulate the G7® grayscale definition.
You can find Print Craft on the IDEAlliance website here.
G7® is a registered trademarks of IDEAlliance®. IDEAlliance® is a non-profit industry association guiding and publishing print media methodologies, specifications, and standards. You can find out more at www.IDEAlliance.org.
FSC Certification
Print Craft has been carrying the FSC Single Chain-of-Custody certification since May 22, 2007 (certificate code SW-COC-002374, contact email ).
Corporate social responsibility issues are becoming a core component of corporate brands. Dealing responsibly with your company's footprint cannot only reduce risk, but can enhance your brand: showing that you walk the walk and know how to talk about it. Carrying the FSC-certification logo on your print products tells the world that you support the highest social and environmental standards in the market where you use paper. Your purchase of FSC-certified paper and print products contributes to conservation, responsible management, and community level benefits for people near the forests that provide your paper.
The U.S. is the largest market for paper products in the world, producing 90 million tons of paper annually and, in-turn, consuming about 100 million tons. Despite improved technologies for refining post consumer pulp, virgin fiber is still a significant requirement, as only 35% of current consumption is met by using recycled fiber; in addition, approximately 25% of recovered fiber is exported out of US markets. Roughly 25% by volume of timber cut annually in the US is used for paper production.
While recycled fiber is a key element of the traditional model for responsible consumption, it is becoming increasingly clear that forest management in the production of the wood used in paper manufacturing, has more fundamental importance than even recycled fiber. The use of alternative fibers, chemical treatment and resulting effluence are other factors important to the responsible purchasing of paper and board.
Certification
Any product made of pulp or paper has the potential to be certified as long as the wood used in the product originates from FSC-certified sources. Wood is an important material for all paper manufacturers. The intent of the FSC system is to shift the market to eliminate habitat destruction, water pollution, displacement of indigenous peoples and violence against people and wildlife that often accompanies logging.
Just like other forest products, in order to use the FSC logo as an "environmental claim" on paper, the product must have flowed through the FSC "chain-of-custody" from the FSC-certified forest, to a paper manufacturer, merchant, and finally printer who have FSC chain-of-custody certification.
For More Information Please Contact:
the mark of responsible forestry
SW-COC-002374
© 1996 Forest Stewardship Council A.C.
65 Millet Street Suite 201
Richmond, VT 05477 USA
Tel: (802) 434-5491
Fax: (802) 434-3116
www.smartwood.org