Graphicraft, Cape Town

The focus of the company, as a mechanised hand bindery, was to be flexible and fulfil the niche between solitary craft bookbinders and plants with automated binding lines that are operated by larger printers. These are often limited by size restrictions and the type of materials that its equipment can handle, as well as by the lack of trained staff to produce larger quantities economically by alternate means.
The company provides trade services in fullbinding and limpbinding to printers as well as publishers, speedily acquired the reputation for the best leatherbinding for deluxe editions, as well as for the making up of slipcases, solander boxes and portfolio covers, special size file covers and binders, etc. It enabled many printers to enter fields that they previously had to exclude, without the correct equipment and expertise.