Cassochrome, A specialised Printing Company
Our main Assets:
Sustainability and Quality
Graphic designers feel at home with us since we have a extent knowledge of paper, litho and printing techniques.
We work with the newest HUV-LED 6 colour press in the finest possible grid.
Thus we can make the most beautiful and highest quality reproductions for art, design, fashion and architecture books.
Paper advise, litho, colour advise, printing or binding techniques, you can ask it all. We help you with all your questions and there is guidance from the design to the end product! Here your book gets the optimal attention it deserves!
With a little more attention and love, everything becomes more beautiful!
High reactive H-UV Led printing is offset printing with an innovative drying system, using Komori’s smartly developed UV Lamp and highly sensitive UV ink.
The use of the H-UV LED lamp allows high quality printing possibilities and strong reliability as well as excellent economic performance and ecofriendly usage.
H-UVL is a technology which enhances colour management and there is hardly any rub off.
INNOVATION
Cassochrome’s specialty H-UVL possibilities:
Komori Lithrone GL640 – 72×102
6 colour + fixed dryer + flexible dryers
allowing the following printing possibilities:
— Full colour + 2 PMS
— Full colour + varnish (spot) + 1 PMS
— 6 PMS
We can print on any paper stock from 50gsm up to 1 mm and we can even print on specialty materials like PET materials.
Also white as a spot colour and print full colour over it for printing on coloured paper stocks is possible.
Thanks to the implementation of 2 movable dryers in combination with the end dryer, we are opening up to all sorts of printing possibilities.
The position of the dryers can be chosen depending on the required printing effect. The extra intermediate drying allows us to realize other applications like printing white on textile paper to obtain a different cmyk outcome.
Overall, H-UV L is a technology which enhances both colour and abrasionresistance of our print results.
The gathered sections of the book are sewed (standard with white yarn). Next, the sewed book block is glued in the cover by means of hotmelt.
SPINE GLUING
HOTMELT
SPINE THICKNESS
From 2 to 60 mm
SIDE GLUING
Hotmelt till about 5 mm
GRAIN DIRECTION
Parallel to the spine
PAPER KIND BOOK BLOCK
From 60 to 250 gm²
Japanese folded 4 page sections are folded on the front (front side), this fold remains intact, and the front is not cut. Japenese paperbound books are always perfect bind. The gathered sections of the book are milled at the open spine side and are glued in the cover by means of PUR-glue. PUR-glue is the strongest glue there is. Unlike hotmelt, PUR-glue cannot be melted again after it hardens. By adding a substance (catalyst) to the hotmelt it has become, after hardening, PUR and because of this it glues excellently.
SPINE GLUING
PUR
SPINE THICKNESS
From 2 to 60 mm
SIDE GLUING
Hotmelt till about 5 mm
GRAIN DIRECTION
Parallel to the spine
PAPER KIND BOOK BLOCK
From 60 to 300 gm²
The gathered sections of the book are milled; the single pages brought about by this are glued in the cover by means of cold glue.
SPINE GLUING
COLD GLUE
SPINE THICKNESS
From 2 to 60 mm
SIDE GLUING
Hotmelt till about 5 mm
GRAIN DIRECTION
Parallel to the spine
PAPER KIND BOOK BLOCK
Uncoated paper
The gathered sections of the book are milled; the single pages brought about by this are glued in the cover by means of PUR, PUR is the strongest glue there is. Unlike hotmelt, PUR cannot be melted again. By adding a substance (catalyst) to the hotmelt, it will become PUR after it hardens.
SPINE GLUING
PUR
SPINE THICKNESS
From 2 to 60 mm
SIDE GLUING
Hotmelt till about 5 mm
GRAIN DIRECTION
Parallel to the spine
PAPER KIND BOOK BLOCK
From 60 to 300 gm²
The gathered sections of the book are milled; the single pages brought about by this are glued in the cover by means of hotmelt.
SPINE GLUING
Hotmelt
SPINE THICKNESS
From 2 to 60 mm
SIDE GLUING
Hotmelt till about 5 mm
GRAIN DIRECTION
Parallel to the spine
PAPER KIND BOOK BLOCK
From 60 to 100 gm²
(for perfect bind paperbound of heavier kinds of paper, see Perfect bind PUR)
— Die cut
— Foil
— Embossing
— Debossing
— Laser
— UV spot
— Lamination (matt, gloss, silk, soft touch, linen structure, buckram structure, sandgrain structure, silver, gold)
— Coloured yarn
— Edge colouring
— Edge gilding
— Rounded corners
— Register die cut
— Tipp-in image
— Fold-outs
— Elastic bound
— Inserts
— Jacquet
— Bellyband
— Shrinkwrapping
— Saddle stitch
— Omega saddle stitch
— Wire-O
— Spiral binding
— Japanese notary closure
— Singer sewn
— 3 hole stitch
— Rogneras
— Foam hardcover
— Atoma — Sleeve
— PVC cover/jacquet
We do small finishes in-house like folding, cutting, scoring and packaging.
We leave bookbinding to the true specialists within this field, since this is a very different art altogether.
We work with numerous bookbinders in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and England.
Every country and company has its specialties and we choose the most compatible binder for your specific product.
Please find below some binding techniques for SOFTCOVER books:
— Sewn
— Glued cold glue
— Glued hotmelt
— Glued PUR
— Otabind glued / Otabind sewn
— Otastar glued / Otastar sewn
— Swiss binding – with or without linen spine (standard with linen spine) — Japanese folding
— Open spine (with or without cover) — Cover with flaps
HARDCOVER possibilities are:
— Standard Hardcover
— Flexcover
— Very thin hardcover — Halfband cover
Possibilities of hardcover finishing:
— Grey board from 1.2 mm up to 3.5 mm (2.5 mm is standard)
— Straight spine / Round spine
— Linnen cover / Laminated cover
— Headbands
— Ribbons
— Type of endpapers
Simon Fujiwara
Dara Birnbaum
Isabel Nolan
Sean Scully
Richard Hamilton
Koen Van Den Broek
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Falke Pisano
Chis Evans
Phillippe Samyn &
Partners
Ante Timmerman
Andrea Branzi
Rinus Van De Velde
Stefaan Dheedene
Stuart Cumberland
Jorge Macchi
Diego Bianchi
Zhou Chunya
Jonathan Lasker
Peter Halley
Benjamin Moravec
Virgine Bailly
Peter Rogiers
Mitja Tusek
Douglas Huebler
Mikael Falke
Laure Henno
Matias Duville
Gilbert Fastenaekens
Alain Bornain
Yves Lecomte
Yves Velter
Steve Canaday
Eric Freeman
Helmut Stallaerts
Koenraad
Dedobbeleer
Rose Wylie
Jan Fabre
Candida Höfer
Thomas Raat
Wim Delvoye
Steve Canaday
Louise Bourgeois
Johan Creten
Carel Balth
Jonathan Lasker
Andres Serrano
David Lachapelle
Tayo Heuser
Alain Bornain
Saint Clair Cemin
Alessandro
Twombly
Pat Harris
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Paul Pouvreau
Keith Mayerson
Werner Mannaers
Geert Goiris
Andy Warhol
Pieter Vermeersch
Els Vanden Meersch
Coreymccorkle
Willy De Sauter
Philip Taaffe
Ricardo Brey
Maarten Vanden
Abeele
Julião Sarmento
Jack Pierson
Koen Theys
Artur Barrio
Jorisghekiere
Lorenzo Mattotti
Karina Bisch
Karin Hanssen
Eric Freeman
Walter Swennen
Giuseppe Gabellone
Peter Rogiers
Adam Fuss
David Greene
Philippe Vandenberg
Adam Chodzko
John Maclean
Koen Van Den Broek
Simon Henwood
Ron Nagle
Michael Landy
Leo Copers
Martin Wallaert
Paul Van Hoeydonck
Luc Peire
Marcel Broodthaers
Alfred Ost
Mira
Jean Dubuffet
Magritte
Tony Cragg
Jasper Johns
Botero
Berlinde De
Bruyckere
Max Ernst
Art & Language
Jean Michel
Basquiat
Guiseppe Penone
James Hyde
Benjamin Verdonck
Roni Horn
Ross Bleckner
Martine Bedin
Sante D’orazio
Karolien
Vanderstappen
Anne-Mie Van
Kerckhoven
Beuys
Sarah Tritz
Gabriel Muschel
Red Caballo
Houseago
Matt Stokes
Dennis Tyfus
Matthieu Ronsse
Sergey Bratkov
Rinus Van De Velde
Dara Birnbaum
Richard Tuttle
Jorge Macchi
Andrea Branzi
Rip Hopkins
Giuseppe Penone
Richard Hamilton
Ante Timmermans
Lina Selander
Thomas Bogaert
Gideon Kiefer
Pino Pascali
SUSTAINABILITY is our priority !
1.The H-UV LED technology is the most sustainable technology on the market
– No varnish needed anymore
The paper is instantly dry so you keep the sensation of the paper without hiding it with varnish and it is environmentally friendly
– No need of drying powder
This is not only a nuisance for health but also for the environment and gave the paper sheet a grainy feeling.
– Less usage of paper
We only need 100 sheets to set the machines. This used to be 500 sheets per side. For the production of one book you easily save 8.000 sheets of paper
– No Odor
The inks react less with the paper thanks to the instant drying process
– No heath emissions
In comparison with UV printing
– Less energy consumption
LED lamps result in less consumption , 100 to 120 Watt instead of normal drying with 150 kWatt
2. Extra sustainable measures
– Solar panels
Electricity is being generated by solar panels on our flat roof top and all electricity that needs to be bought in on top is green electricity.
– Less water usage
The water that is used is purified rain water and is in a closed circuit so no water discharge
– All paper is being recycled
This is not possible with other printing techniques like UV but H-UV printing can be fully recycled.
– No Ozone emission
This is the case with UV printing and is a nuisance to health and environment.
– New REACH legislation since 2019 in Europe
All inks, plates and other materials meet the necessary standards according to this new strict legislation in term of ecology.
– FSC paper – sustainable forestry
All paper we buy in Europe is FSC certified which means that for every tree that is used, 2 new fast growing trees are replanted.
We are located in the north of Belgium.
When planning a visit, give us a warning in advance so that someone can pick you up at the train station.
We make every effort to provide our customers with high-quality printed matter. However, we need your help in providing correct, non-layeres files to enable us to do this.
Read here for more information on How to submit your files.
If you have any questions, please contact our prepress team at info@cassochrome.be