Joh. Enschedé
Logo on Johan Enschedé Hof
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Printing |
| Founded | Haarlem, 1703 |
| Founder | Izaak Enschedé |
| Headquarters | Haarlem, Netherlands |
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Number of locations
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Haarlem, Amsterdam and Brussels |
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Area served
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European Community |
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Key people
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Arie Piet, Chief Executive Officer |
| Products | Security documents, banknotes, stamps |
| Services | Design, print |
| Revenue | €60 million |
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Number of employees
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450 |
| Website | www.joh-enschede.nl |
Royal Joh. Enschedé (Dutch: Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé) is a printer of security documents, stamps and banknotes based in Haarlem, Netherlands. Joh. Enschedé specialises in print, media and security. The company hosts the Museum Enschedé and has branches in Amsterdam, Brussels and Haarlem.
The company was founded in 1703, when Izaak Enschedé registered with the Printers Guild in Haarlem.
Joh. Enschedé has long been associated with the printing of banknotes; the company printed the "Robin" (Dutch Roodborstje), the very first Dutch banknote, in 1814. Since then, Joh. Enschedé has printed the banknotes of the State of the Netherlands. In 1866, after the death of Johannes Enschedé III, Joh. Enschedé sold the family's book collection and began printing stamps.
Enschedé began manufacturing type in 1743 after purchasing the foundry of Hendrik Wetstein, and the foundry soon became the most important part of Enschedé’s business. The famous punch-cutter Joan Michael Fleischman was employed there in the eighteenth century. Its type business flourished throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in the twentieth century the foundry achieved widespread international acclaim through the design and production of types of Jan van Krimpen. During the foundry type era, Enschedé types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association.
These foundry types were produced by Enschedér:
Enschedé produced many other typefaces with matrices from other typefoundries for handsetting:
Many Monotype faces were cast on Monotype machines and delivered to the customers.
Besides all this Enschedé offered in the 1968 character proof:
In 1893 for their 150th anniversary, a memorial book was commissioned called Enschedé gedenkschrift 1743-1893. The book was such a success that ten years later they decided to open a museum with artefacts from their archives, and in 1904 Museum Enschedé was founded in the old type foundry.
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