4edge Limited

About us:

4edge is a specialist digital book printing company. Our strengths are in low to medium print runs. We offer extremely high levels of quality and service, as well as fast turnarounds! We print in mono and colour, paperbacks and hardbacks.



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Printer size:

Established: 2003, Indie
For print runs of min. 20 copies +, min. extents of 32 pages


Get in touch

Carl Joice (c.joice@4edge.co.uk)
Address: 22 Eldon Way Ind Estate, Hockley, Essex, SS5 4AD
Factory address: 22 Eldon Way Ind Estate, Hockley, Essex, SS5 4AD

Sustainability

Our sustainability considerations include:

  • We only use FSC-approved materials

  • We can provide the relevant EUDR information that presses need to process their own DDSs

  • We subscribe to the Carbon Balanced Paper scheme

  • We offer delivery bundling and/or responsible deliveries

  • We offer discounts for bundling orders

  • We offer carbon footprint information to publishers


Energy used

Percentage of factory energy from renewables on site: 50%
Percentage of factory energy from renewables bought in: 50%

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Carbon footprint offsetting information
Please note: Most of the information on this page is aimed at showing sustainability choices and mesaures; this section demonstrates the printer’s ‘extra mile’ in offsetting their resulting carbon footprint. While it is helpful in showing printers’ attitudes to offsetting, please bear in mind it is of course not necessarily reflective of their total carbon footprint, which we do not ask them to provide here, as printers do not routinely share this information. Data here is provided in percentages only unless otherwise specified by the printer. Information is provided in good faith but presses should exercise caution in relying on figures, and should ask printers for more up-to-date information. We show this information so that presses can use current industry estimates of carbon footprint KGs per book for offsetting, where ~65% of a book’s carbon footprint is in production, transportation accounts for ~25% and packaging makes up ~10%.

Production carbon footprint offset: unknown
Transport carbon footprint offset: unknown
Packaging carbon footprint offset: unknown

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More information and specs

Specs

We offer:

  • digital printing

  • automatic stock replenishment (ASR)/direct to Gardners

  • mono (b/w) printing

  • colour printing

  • hardback (PPC)

  • hardback (cloth/foil)

  • sewn paperbacks

  • unsewn/perfect-bound paperbacks

Finishes

We offer:

  • foil blocking

  • spot UV

  • French flaps (8pp covers)

  • duplex covers (4/4 covers)

  • sprayed edges/spredges

  • colour plate sections tipped into mono books selected

  • uncoated/unlaminated options for covers

  • sewn sections

Papers

We carry:

  • Stora Enso Novel 70gsm

  • Munken Premium White 80gsm

  • Munken Premium Cream 80gsm

White offset papers 80/90/100/120gsm / coated papers 90/100/115/130/150gsm