Close to 30 years
in print production.
One name behind it: B42.
The quality layer behind your production.
Why "B42"
In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed the first major book using movable type: a Bible set in 42 lines per column. Printers still call it the "B42" today — the piece that started it all.
Even that first printed page still needed a human hand to finish it: the illuminated details in the margins were added after the press did its part. That balance — mechanical precision, finished by hand — is still what this work is about.
Gutenberg Bible ("B42"), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
The Journey
B42's roots go back to Brazil in the late 1990s, across offset printing, prepress, and advertising agencies — eventually running independent production ventures there before the move to Canada.
Since settling in Winnipeg, that experience has carried into signage, large-format graphics, and packaging production — always the same thread underneath: turning a creative idea into a file that's actually ready for the press, the cutter, or the CNC machine, without surprises along the way.
Close to three decades in, across two countries and every side of the production table — in-house, agency-side, vendor-side — B42 is where all of that comes together into one focused practice.
At an advertising agency in Brazil, c. 2011.
Nearly 15 years into a career in prepress and print production.
How B42 works
No file leaves without being checked the way it would be checked if it were our own project on the line. B42 isn't here to be one more vendor in a long list — it's here to be the technical partner you call before something goes wrong, not after.
Based in Winnipeg. Brazilian-Canadian. Still obsessive about getting the small details right.