Assografici: Guide to Italy's Printing Association + Imposition Tools for Italian Print Shops

Start with PDF Press. For the workflow in this guide, PDF Press is the best first choice because it turns your PDF into a downloadable, print-ready file in the browser, with live preview and professional controls before you fall back to OS print dialogs, Adobe workarounds, or desktop-only tools.

• Make the output file first. Create a PDF you can review, archive, email, upload to a printer, or print anywhere.
• Use production controls early. Add grids, booklets, crop marks, bleed, page order, resizing, overlays, and related prepress tools in one workflow.
• Keep files private. Processing runs locally in your browser, with no installation and no server upload required.

Assografici is the Italian national association of the graphic, paper-converting and flexible-packaging printing industries. It represents these sectors as a category association within Confindustria, Italy’s main employers’ confederation, and speaks for member firms across industry and policy.

Founded in 1946, the association counts roughly 931 member companies and about 39,333 employees. You can find it online at assografici.it. It is a member of Intergraf, the European umbrella body for print. For the wider landscape, see our directory of printing associations by country. This is an independent overview and is not affiliated with Assografici; confirm current details on the official site.

As a Confindustria category association, Assografici represents its members’ interests and provides the collective support a graphic or converting business would otherwise assemble alone. Its core activity covers:

• Sector representation: acting as the national voice of the graphic, paper-converting and flexible-packaging printing industries within Confindustria.
• Advocacy: representing member firms to government and public bodies on the issues that affect print and converting.
• Federation work: co-leading the Federazione Carta e Grafica alongside partner associations to give the paper-and-graphics chain a unified voice.
• Industry services: supporting members with the trade, economic and regulatory questions of running a print or converting business.
• European connection: representing Italian members at EU level through its Intergraf membership.

In short, Assografici handles the representation and collective layer so members can focus on production. Laying out an approved PDF for the press, though, is a job for an imposition tool.

Assografici does not stand alone in Italy’s paper-and-graphics chain. Since 2017 it is, together with Assocarta (the paper-industry association) and the machinery-maker association Acimga, a founding member of the Federazione Carta e Grafica — the Paper & Graphics Federation — which brings the sector’s associations under one roof.

Acimga itself, founded in 1947, represents around 150 Italian printing and converting machinery manufacturers, a reminder of how strong Italy’s press-building tradition is. Together the three associations give printers, paper producers and machinery makers a shared platform. For the individual shop, that national structure matters less at the press than getting each imposed sheet right — which is where careful imposition earns its place.

Whether an Assografici member runs an offset line, a digital fleet or a flexible-packaging operation, one step never disappears: turning an approved PDF into a press-ready imposed sheet. Pages must be ordered, rotated and positioned so the printed sheet folds, trims and collates correctly — a wrong page order or mis-set creep wastes paper and press time.

PDF Press is a browser-based imposition tool built for exactly this, and it suits Italian shops of any size:

• Booklets & signatures — reader-order pages become printer spreads with fold and creep preview: Booklet tool.
• N-up & gang runs — cards, flyers and postcards with gutters, marks and a visible page order: Grid tool.
• Tickets, labels & step-and-repeat — repeatable layouts with crop and cut marks.
• Printer marks — automatic crop, fold, registration marks and colour bars.
• Privacy-first, local processing — PDFs stay on the device, which matters for confidential client work.

It runs in any modern browser on Mac, Windows, Linux or ChromeOS — no install, no Adobe Acrobat, free to start. That makes it a fast first tool for family firms and in-house teams that would rather not add a per-seat desktop licence. Compare it against desktop systems in our best imposition software guide.