Federation of Icelandic Industries (Samtök iðnaðarins, SI) & Its Printing Group: Guide + Imposition Tools

The Federation of Icelandic Industries — in Icelandic Samtök iðnaðarins (SI) — is Iceland’s largest employers’ organisation and a broad, multi-sector body that represents companies across many branches of industry. It was founded on 24 September 1993 by merging six organisations, one of which was the Association of the Icelandic Printing Industry (Félag íslenska prentiðnaðarins). SI is also the largest member of the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA).

Because SI covers many industries, printing does not have a standalone national trade body in Iceland; instead it operates inside SI as a dedicated sector group. You can find the federation at si.is. SI is a member of Intergraf, the European umbrella body for print and digital communication. For the wider picture, see our directory of printing associations by country.

Within SI the printing industry is organised as a sector group called Prentiðnaður (the Printing Industry group), covering printing and paper companies. For its print members SI provides:

• Sector-group representation: Prentiðnaður gives printing and paper firms a collective voice inside the wider federation.
• Advocacy: SI represents the interests of print businesses in policy and public debate.
• Sustainability leadership: SI promotes environmental performance, and Icelandic printers position themselves as environmental pioneers.
• Competition lobbying: SI raises and lobbies on competition issues that affect the sector.
• Employer support: as Iceland’s largest employers’ organisation, SI backs its members on the broader business-of-industry layer.

In other words, SI and its Prentiðnaður group handle representation and advocacy so members can concentrate on production. What that structure does not cover is the day-to-day prepress work at the press — and that is where an imposition tool earns its place.

It is worth being precise about how Iceland is organised. SI is a broad industries federation rather than a printing-only association: it grew out of a 1993 merger of six organisations and today speaks for a wide range of Icelandic industry. The printing trade’s heritage lives on through the former Association of the Icelandic Printing Industry, which was one of those merging bodies, and continues today as the Prentiðnaður sector group.

For printers this means representation flows through a large, cross-sector employers’ organisation with real weight — SI is the biggest member of the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) — while the sector group keeps print-specific concerns, such as sustainability and competition, on the agenda. This guide is an independent overview for print professionals and is not affiliated with SI; confirm membership terms and current details directly on the official site.

Whether an SI-member shop runs sheet-fed litho, a digital fleet or wide-format kit, one job never goes away: turning an approved PDF into a press-ready imposed sheet. Pages have to be ordered, rotated and positioned so the printed sheet folds, trims and collates correctly. Get the page order or creep wrong and you waste paper and press time.

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

• Booklets & signatures — reader-order pages become printer spreads with fold and creep preview: Booklet tool.
• N-up & gang runs — flyers, postcards and cards 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, and free to start. That makes it a quick first tool for smaller firms and in-house teams that do not want a per-seat desktop licence. Compare it against desktop systems in our best imposition software guide.