Student Elections: Footprint Workers Co-op

Beth told me that she had the idea to have the campaign printed with risograph. Beth knew who she was thinking of using: A printers co-op Footprint, based in Leeds. She said that the Students Union had used them before, so it was a reliable source for printing.

Beth's plan is to get in touch with them and set up a meeting to discuss pricing, binding and colour options within risograph.

From their website:

"We are a small ecologically minded printers based in Leeds. We print booklets, zines, leaflets, stickers, newsletters, fliers, books, CD wallets and that sort of gubbins.

We can fold, staple, or spiral bind, and we can have properly bound books done by partner companies too.

We are a workers co-operative, which means our business is owned by the workers. As we have no bosses we run it as we want, doing interesting jobs for interesting people.

We want to be straightforward, friendly, responsible and responsive, rather than ‘aiming to deliver comprehensive multi-platform printing solutions to clients in the voluntary and vocationally challenged sectors’.

We do it as ethically as we can, printing on proper recycled papers, powered by a genuine green electricity tariff and using the least environmentally damaging processes we can find."

Collaboration Partner: Beth Taylor