The foundry

Small team.
Long specifications.

We build and own four products, sell them worldwide in English, and take the part of the work that everybody else would rather skip.

A fanned colour book, every printing ink laid open at once

Take the boring hard part. It is the only part that is difficult to copy.

Plate 01 / A colour book, every printing ink laid open at once
Method

Four rules, and
none of them
are about software.

Take the boring hard part
The colour engine, the machine format, the schema check. That is the part nobody wants and the only part that is hard to copy.
Ship where people already are
A browser tab, a phone, a workshop bench. Nothing that needs a workstation under a desk to be worth using.
Be exact about status
Live, in trials, pre-launch. We write which one on every page, and we do not move the words to make a quarter look better.
Calibrate against reality
BVX has no public specification. We calibrated it against 12 real production files, 879 parts and roughly 9,100 operations, and we check every release against that corpus.
4products in the portfolio
2live and in public use
3machine formats Kerf writes
1file format Popcorn handles for printers
Where

Weesp, next
to Amsterdam.

A product foundry with a European specialist network behind it. We sell the products worldwide in English. The client work happens under the other name, in Dutch or English, and stays separate on purpose.

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Contact

Want the engine
rather than the product?

Print engine, web platform or machine-file work, under licence or as a partnership. Talk to us directly.