Printers get organised in times of crisis - 11 May 2020

All over France, players in the graphic arts industry are mobilizing to maintain an activity or offer their services in this period of health crisis.

Signage popular with shopkeepers

In Mesnil-Raoul near Rouen, the communication agency EG Concept, which specialises in the design and packaging of advertising media (textiles, vehicles, signs, shop windows, flyers, business cards...), has created a signage system designed to ensure that safety distances are respected in shops, reports Le Parisien . It is a "?disque red vinyl sticker of 45 cm diameter with two white footprints surrounded by the instructions essentielles?". The first records were distributed free of charge to health professionals and hospitals, and after very positive feedback, the first orders arrived," company boss Guillaume Ebeire told the newspaper. Since then, it hasn't stopped, adds il?!

La Maison de l'Imprimerie à Rebais maintains its machines while waiting for the reopening

The Maison de l'Imprimerie, located in the former Rebais station in Seine-et-Marne, no longer receives visitors, but the machines continue to run for maintenance. This is what the local newspaper tells us Le Pays Briard who questioned the president of the Jacques Driot museum in early April. This retired printer and typographer is present every day in the typographic workshop to prepare for the reopening. The printing house has a vast collection of equipment and machines in working order dating from 1837 to 1955.

The Vallée d'Auffray printing plant receives a loan from its region

Like a majority of companies in the graphic industries, the Auffray Valley printing works located in Val-de-Scie in the Normandy region is going through a complicated period. To avoid bankruptcy, the company has received a loan of 10?000 euros from the Normandy Region, to which are added 10?000 euros from the bank, reports the daily newspaper Paris Normandy . A commercial printer, the company carries out all kinds of work in offset and digital.

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