First printing works in Paris

Paris was Europe’s most important intellectual center in the 15th century, and saw the birth of several printing works. The first printing works in Paris were founded by two Sorbonne professors, Jean Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet. The first, Jean Heynlin, born in Stein, had the idea of setting up a printing works in Paris. The…

Selective varnish

Paris Welye offers a number of optional finishes for all your projects. Selective varnish is a process whereby a varnish is applied during printing (machine varnish) or after printing (UV varnish). In this case, Paris Welye applies a thin layer of varnish to your printed media and matte films. The reason why varnish is applied…

Metal spirals – Wire’o

Wire ‘o is a metal spiral binder that allows you to open your media flat and rotate the pages 360°. Unlike other bindings, the number of pages must be a multiple of 2, not 4. The minimum number of pages for metal spiral binding is 8. Page orientation can be either French or Italian, with…

Glued square-back

Imprimerie Paris Welye offers you different types of binding for your documents. Your brochures, books, magazines and other multi-page documents can be bound in 4 different ways in our workshops: – Staples (metal picks) – Metal spirals (wire’o) – Glued square back – Sewn square back Glued square-back binding is an industrial binding with pages…