Centro Stampa Quotidiani

Centro Stampa Quotidiani (CSQ) is an Italian newspaper printing company based in Erbusco, in the province of Brescia, between Bergamo and Brescia and roughly 100 metres from the Rovato exit of the A4 motorway. According to its own corporate profile, CSQ began operating in April 2000 and describes itself as the newest and largest Italian newspaper printing centre serving a plurality of publishers. Its plant runs both offset and digital ink-jet technology, allowing it to cover a very wide range of work: daily newspapers, weeklies and monthlies, and individual or one-off productions, from very high print runs down to small and very small runs. A defining feature of CSQ's production is the combination of high print quality with sophisticated on-line packaging of the finished copies. The company's finishing capabilities include inserting preprints and leaflets, stitching, three-side trimming and single-copy addressing, so that copies leave the plant ready for distribution. CSQ states that it deliberately keeps a share of its production capacity available for customers' special initiatives, and that it also accepts occasional individual productions from any publisher or advertising agency interested in using its printing, packaging and delivery services. The printing plant is located in Erbusco (BS), and CSQ reports annual production of about 100 million copies distributed throughout central-northern Italy. The press centre produces simultaneously on four offset lines and one digital line, running three shifts a day, seven days a week. CSQ emphasises a high degree of automation — described as the maximum allowed by the technology in use — which it says keeps production costs among the lowest in the sector, enabling competitive prices alongside very high printing and packaging quality and extremely short production and delivery times. As a trade printer rather than a publisher, CSQ does not own newspaper titles; it positions itself as a service provider to publishers and advertisers. Its website highlights newspaper-industry news and offers a newsletter, and the company publishes a privacy policy, cookie policy, whistleblowing channel and a Code of Ethics and Organisational Model 231, the Italian compliance framework for corporate liability. The company is identified in Wikidata simply as a publishing press in Italy.

Centro Stampa Quotidiani (CSQ) began its activity in April 2000, according to the company's own account. It presents itself as the newest and largest Italian newspaper printing centre operating for a plurality of publishers, a positioning that reflects a model of shared, multi-publisher newspaper printing rather than a single-title press room. From the outset the plant was equipped with both offset and digital ink-jet technology, giving it the flexibility to handle daily newspapers, weeklies and monthlies, and individual productions across a very wide range of print runs. The company established its printing plant in Erbusco, in the province of Brescia, a location chosen for its position between Bergamo and Brescia and its proximity — about 100 metres — to the Rovato exit of the A4 motorway, which supports fast distribution across central-northern Italy. CSQ reports annual production of roughly 100 million copies distributed in that area. Over time CSQ built its production model around high automation and around on-line packaging of copies. Its finishing line handles inserting of preprints and leaflets, stitching, three-side trimming and single-copy addressing, so that printed copies are prepared for distribution within the same production flow. The press centre runs four offset lines and a digital line simultaneously, on three shifts and seven days a week. CSQ states that automation is pushed to the maximum allowed by the technology in use, keeping production costs among the lowest in the sector while maintaining high printing and packaging quality and short production and delivery times. A distinctive commercial choice is that CSQ keeps a share of its production capacity available for the special initiatives of its customers, and also accepts occasional individual productions from any publisher or advertising agency interested in its printing, packaging and delivery services. This makes CSQ a service provider to the newspaper and advertising industries rather than a publisher of titles. By the late 2010s CSQ was using its website to comment on newspaper-industry developments, publishing a series of news items dated 19 October 2018 on topics such as Brexit's effect on print, newspapers' response to digital fake news, a media-literacy project by The Times and The Sunday Times, the leadership of Metro and The Sun in the UK market, and hyperlocal news as a route to success for smaller-circulation newspapers. The company also maintains corporate governance and compliance materials, including a privacy policy, cookie policy, whistleblowing channel and a Code of Ethics and Organisational Model 231. Wikidata records the entity simply as a publishing press in Italy.

• CSQ begins operating as a newspaper printing centre in Erbusco (BS).

• CSQ publishes a series of newspaper-industry news items on its website, including Brexit's effect on print and newspapers' response to digital fake news.

Trade newspaper printing centre serving multiple publishers, combining high print quality, sophisticated on-line packaging and low production costs.

• Offset newspaper printing

  Four offset lines producing daily newspapers and periodicals.

• Digital ink-jet printing

  A digital line complementing offset for individual and small-run productions.

• On-line packaging

  Inserting of preprints and leaflets, stitching, three-side trimming and single-copy addressing.

1. 1Centro Stampa Quotidiani SPA - Erbusco (BS) Italycsqspa.it
2. 2CSQ - CENTRO STAMPA QUOTIDIANI SPA - Chi Siamocsqspa.it
3. 3Centro Stampa Quotidianiwikidata.org