What Webprint does

Webprint (legal entity Adenium Ltd., trading as Webprint) is the largest independent cold-set web offset printer on the island of Ireland, privately owned and operated since its founding in 2006. The company delivers B2B printing services — primarily to newspaper and magazine publishers, and secondarily to commercial print buyers, event organizers, and tourism bodies — producing tabloid, broadsheet, magazine, booklet, poster, and calendar products in runs from 1,000 to over one million copies. Headquartered at a consolidated production facility at Citywest, Dublin (2023 Bianconi Avenue, D24 EH50), Webprint employs 51–100 people and operates Manroland Geoman presses, an ECO3 Arkitex Production prepress workflow, a cloud-hosted CTP pipeline in ISO-certified mirrored data centres, a QI Closed Loop quality system, and three Ferag mailroom lines, supplemented by a Menzies Distribution partnership for nationwide delivery.

The company's production stack is built around certified industrial print technology rather than software or AI: Arkitex Opti-Ink reduces ink usage, the QI Closed Loop (installed March 2022) automates ink density, damp, register and cut-off control, and Pemac supports computerized maintenance. Webprint holds ISO 12647-3 compliance and has accumulated more than 17 Irish Print Awards since 2010, capped by IPA Printer of the Year: Newspaper & Freesheet 2024. Revenue is generated through quote-based one-time project contracts across direct sales channels (phone, website inquiry, wp-orders.com customer login), with no public pricing. Following the 2021 acquisition of INM's Citywest plant, production consolidation in 2025, and the April 2026 acquisition of Kerry's Eye Newspaper, Webprint is evolving from a pure contract printer toward a vertically integrated media production operator with owned publishing assets.

Name

Webprint

Legal name

Adenium Ltd. T/A Webprint

Website

https://webprint.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Webprint is Ireland's largest independent cold-set web offset printer, producing newspapers, magazines, booklets, posters, and calendars for publishers and commercial buyers from a consolidated Dublin facility, with integrated distribution via Menzies across Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) (323111)

SIC

Commercial Printing (2750)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Offset Printing (Sheetfed/Web) (MPAJALAB)

Keywords

• Cold-set web offset printing
• Newspaper printing services
• Magazine printing services
• Commercial leaflet printing
• Prepress CTP workflow

Headquarters

HQ city

Cork

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Printing Services: Cold-set web offset printing services for newspapers, magazines, booklets, posters, calendars, and commercial inserts. Production runs from 1,000 to over 1 million copies. Services include prepress, printing, finishing (folding, stitching, trimming), and distribution/delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Webprint is Ireland's largest independent cold-set web offset printer, providing high-volume newspaper, magazine, booklet, poster, and calendar printing services for publishers and commercial buyers. Production runs range from 1,000 to over 1 million copies, with integrated prepress (CTP workflow), printing (Manroland Geoman presses), finishing, mailroom insertion, and nationwide distribution services. The company operates from a single consolidated facility at Citywest, Dublin.

Product overview

Webprint is Ireland's largest independent cold-set web offset printer, operating as a B2B printing service. The company offers a portfolio of seven core printed products (Tabloid, Broadsheet, Magazine, Booklet, Double Panoramic Poster, Trimmed Poster, and Calendar) that are produced using web offset printing technology. Products range from 4 to 192+ pages with print runs from 1,000 to over 1 million copies. The offering is complemented by three service offerings: Distribution/Delivery for logistics across Ireland, An Post Specifications for mailing-compliant products, and Inserting Leaflets/Supplements for integrated publication bundles. The company operates from a single consolidated facility at Citywest, Dublin, having acquired and integrated the INM plant in 2021.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 250 plates produced per hour (per laser unit)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Menzies DistributioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMenzies Distribution provides smarter supply chain solutions for Webprint's delivery operations. They offer a sustainable route to market with innovative three-fold sustainability strategy: Fleet (saved 2.5m kg of CO2), Recycling & Re-use (recover and recycle 26,993 tonnes annually), and Energy (electricity from 100% renewable and clean sources). This partnership enables Webprint to offer sustainable distribution across Ireland.
• ECO3 (formerly Agfa Graphics)coreTechnology or IntegrationECO3 supplies and supports the Arkitex Production prepress workflow system. Software upgrade and maintenance contract includes 24-hour online support. ECO3 engineers and spare parts usually available within 4 hours from Dublin base. Webprint operates 2 CTP plate making lines in load share mode or independently, maintained with support contract covering regular on-site and remote planned maintenance.
• ManrolandcoreTechnology or IntegrationManroland is the press manufacturer for the Dublin site's Geoman presses (commenced production November 2000). Service and support contracts are in place with Manroland covering press maintenance and technical support.
• FeragcoreTechnology or IntegrationFerag supplies the mailroom equipment including 3 independent mailroom lines, MSD inserting drums, Rollstream with JEF Feeders, bundle stacking lines, and SNT trimmers. Service and support contracts are in place covering maintenance.
• PecomcoreTechnology or IntegrationPecom supplies press controls for the Dublin site's Manroland Geoman presses. Service and support contracts are in place for the press controls system.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pureprint Group: UK commercial printer serving publishers with magazines, catalogues, and book printing using web offset and digital. Comparable to Webprint's combination of publication printing, sustainability certifications, and direct contracts with publishers.
• Cliffe Enterprise: Specialist UK web offset printer of newspapers, magazines, and supplements. Closely comparable to Webprint in technology (web offset), customer segment (publishers), and run-length flexibility across newspaper and magazine formats.
• Newsprinters: UK-based cold-set web offset newspaper printer printing national and regional titles. Directly comparable to Webprint in terms of press technology (Manroland/Heidelberg-class web offset), customer base (UK newspaper publishers), and business model of a specialist independent newspaper printer.
• Walstead Group: European commercial printer with strong web offset and magazine/booklet printing capability. Comparable to Webprint in serving publisher customers with high-quality colour print and integrated finishing.
• Polestar Group: UK-headquartered print and digital solutions provider operating web offset and digital presses for magazines, newspapers, and commercial print. Comparable to Webprint because it serves publishers with high-volume web offset production, integrated finishing, and distribution support across a single geography.

Broad incumbents

• Reach plc: UK national and regional newspaper publisher that operates in-house and contracted print capacity. Overlaps with Webprint as a publisher that consumes web offset print capacity, although Reach is also a customer-type rather than a pure printer.
• News UK (News Corp): UK newspaper publisher (The Times, The Sun, TLS) with significant in-house and contracted web offset print needs. Comparable to Webprint as a major newspaper customer/competitor for the same kind of cold-set web offset production work in the British Isles.
• dmg media (DMGT): UK media group publishing the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and Metro. Operates print sites historically associated with Harmsworth Printing and contracts significant newspaper print volume. Comparable to Webprint in the UK newspaper-printing ecosystem that surrounds Ireland.
• Quad/Graphics: Large North American commercial printing platform with significant magazine, catalog, and retail print exposure. Relevant as a broad incumbent that competes for the same publisher and commercial-print RFPs Webprint targets, but operates at vastly larger scale and across multiple geographies.
• Transcontinental Inc. Canadian-based commercial and packaging printer with newspaper and magazine work. Comparable in product mix (publications, commercial print, packaging) but operates a much broader footprint than Webprint's single Irish plant.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Webprint_ie
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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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