Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Footprint - Co-op

Footprint

Printing, posters, flyers
Specialise in zines and booklets
Work a lot with bands
Website hosting and freelance design

A workers coop 

Came out of the industrial revolution
5 people - all co directors and printers
Run for the workers, no boss or shareholders or management
Pay each other equal wages and have an equal say
Invest profits back into machinery, donations, up their own wages

Started in 2000
Environmental activists inherited a litho press
Risograph, easier machine to use.
Indie tracks
Zine and print fairs

Ethics/Sustainability

If one person doesn't want to print it it own't be done.
If they don't want to print something they'll just say no.
Political and environmental views.
Work alongside paper recycling coop.
WOn't ship overseas, down air miles. 

7 Co-op principles

Training, education
Economic investment, all have a part in the business
Democratic and open 
Cooperation amongst cooperatives
Radical routes - network of co-ops - Get together of like minded people. 
Source of money which gets invested in coops, people can get loans.

Contact

Print out several prints/copies.
Contact via email.
Can print up to A3


www.footprinters.co.uk
footprinters
@footprintleeds

@footprintworkerscoop





















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