Lafrenz, Windhoek
Printing with Passion
WordPress Namibia (Pty) Ltd is a 100% Namibian owned printing company. We print The Namibian newspaper along with a range of other publications, newsletters and commercial flyers.
What we print
Six things we run off this press.
From a nightly newspaper to a month end retail flyer, everything is printed, inserted and finished in one building.
- 01
Newspaper printing
Broadsheet and tabloid titles printed in full colour on a GOSS Community web press, the same line that prints The Namibian.
390 x 540 mm / 265 x 390 mm - 02
Inserts and supplements
Special projects, weekend sections and standalone supplements, collated and inserted on a Ferag inserting line.
Collated and inserted in line - 03
Retail and advertising flyers
Full colour advertising flyers and month end specials for retail groups, in any of the three formats we run.
Tabloid, broadsheet, quarter fold - 04
Newsletters and booklets
Shorter run corporate newsletters and quarter fold booklets, printed and folded on the same press.
160 x 240 mm - 05
Computer to plate
Fuji computer to plate equipment, with every PDF preflighted for embedded fonts, resolution and separations before it goes to plate.
Minimum 28 lines per mm - 06
Colour management
Colour built to the IFRA newspaper standard, so what leaves your desk is what comes off the reel.
ISOnewspaper26v4
How it works
From your desktop to the delivery bay in five steps.
- Step 01
Send your files
PDF only, by FTP, Dropbox, BTSync, or email if the file is under 10 MB.
- Step 02
Preflight
We check resolution, embedded fonts, separations and tints before anything is committed.
- Step 03
Plate making
Approved pages go to the Fuji computer to plate equipment.
- Step 04
Printing
The run goes on the GOSS Community press, with colour and register held from the floor consoles.
- Step 05
Insert and deliver
Supplements are inserted on the Ferag line, then the finished product leaves Lafrenz.
Why print with us
- New, reliable, proven GOSS press technology
- Competitive pricing
- Personal client and troubleshooting advice
- Experienced management and staff team
- High quality production
- Quick delivery
The plant
A press hall put up in ten months, by Namibian contractors.
With only restricted financing in place, the building and installation project was successfully finalised in 2014 in a record ten months.
- Founded
- 2014
- First print run
- 1 February 2015
- Total investment
- N$76 million
- Management experience
- 100+ years combined
About us
A joint venture created to print a newspaper, now printing far more.
WordPress Namibia (Pty) Ltd was founded in 2014, and is situated in Windhoek's Lafrenz Industrial Area, Erf 189. It is a joint venture between the Namibia Media Trust, owner of The Namibian newspaper, and local businessman Wolfram Jauss, created primarily to print The Namibian and all its special projects and supplements.
Today WordPress is still printing The Namibian newspaper and now also various other publications, newsletters and commercial flyers.
We are looking forward to assisting you with all your printing needs.
Tell us the format, the pagination and the quantity, and we will come back to you with a price.