Footprint are an ecological printing company based in Leeds that have a huge focus on being as environmentally friendly as possible. Footprint is a coopertive which means the business is jointly owned and run by the workers, making it a tight knit community where they can control what they print, their wages etc. creating equality between them. A couple of ways that the remain sustainable and ecological is by using only recycled stock and also sustainable inks and by only distributing within the UK they are keeping their carbon footprint to a minimum.
It's interesting to see a company that focuses so much on their ethics and environmental footprint, especially in an industry where paper printing is used on a mass scale by various companies on a daily basis.
The work they choose to do for clients is entirely chosen by them, if they feel it's an unethical topic, e.g. homophobic, racist etc. they'll refuse their work so it's nice to see a company with a set of values that they stick by. Something else they do is tour the UK to various printing festivals, taking their printing equipment so that they can collate work from lots of different people and print it all within a magazine which they refer to as a 'zine in a day'.
They also introduced us to risograph printing and brought in a really nice selection of zines and calendars etc. that had been printed using this method like the one below:
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