Loveprint started in 2013 as a one-woman print agency working out of Cape Town. Thirteen years later, it's more or less still that. One person. A vetted network of 139 suppliers across the country. And a straightforward belief that most print jobs don't go wrong because the printer is bad — they go wrong because nobody stays close to the job from brief to delivery.
That's the whole business, really. I take the job, pick the right supplier for the run, manage the production, check the proofs, arrange the courier, and stay available if anything needs sorting after. You get one point of contact. I wear the hat for the quality and the deadline.
Why a broker, not a printer.
A printer sells their own press and their own press's strengths. A broker picks the right press for your run out of dozens of options — and is on the hook when it's late, wrong, or short. I work for the buyer, not the factory. On packaging runs with tight retail deadlines that's usually the difference between the job landing and the job not.
How the work happens.
- 01 You tell me what you're printing — brief, quantities, deadline, end-use. A paragraph is enough; I'll ask for the rest.
- 02 I come back with a quote and a production plan, usually inside a working day.
- 03 I brief the supplier, chase the proofs, check the run, arrange the courier.
- 04 It arrives where it needs to arrive — factory-direct, anywhere in South Africa.
No finger-pointing between printer, courier and client. One number to call if it's wrong. Which very occasionally it is — I'm honest about that, and equally honest about how we fix it.
What I'm not good for.
Worth saying plainly:
- Print-on-demand one-offs through a webshop — plenty of great services for that, I'm not one of them.
- Jobs where the only brief is "find me the absolute cheapest." I'm not the cheapest. I'm the one who takes the print off your plate so it arrives right.
- Anything produced offshore. Everything I broker is printed in South Africa.
One last thing
Loveprint is me. If you email the address, I read it. If you call the number, I answer. That's not a differentiator so much as the whole operating model — but worth knowing up front, because it's what you're actually hiring.
— Kayleigh