Printers’ Association “Transylvania” (ATT): Guide + Imposition Tools for Romanian 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.

The Printers’ Association “Transylvania” (native: Asociația Tipografilor „Transilvania”, acronym ATT) is Romania’s printing employers’ association. It was founded in June 2002 in Cluj-Napoca by 12 founding companies. What began as a regional Transylvania body has since evolved into a national employers’ association for the printing and polygraphic industry (Asociația Națională Patronală a Industriei Poligrafice).

You can find the association at asociatia-tipografilor.ro. ATT is a member of Intergraf, the European umbrella body for the print and digital communication industry, which represents national federations at EU level. To see how it sits among peer organisations, browse our directory of printing associations by country.

As an employers’ association, ATT works on the collective conditions that shape the Romanian print trade rather than on individual production. Its activity centres on three areas:

• National employer advocacy: representing the interests of printing and polygraphic businesses at national level as an employers’ association.
• Trade shows: organising sector events including the Pack Show (packaging) and the All2Print Show (printing), which bring suppliers, printers and buyers together.
• Education: campaigning to re-establish university-level polygraphic education in Romania and supporting practical training at high-school level to build the next generation of print professionals.

In short, ATT handles advocacy, industry events and skills so its members can focus on running their presses. This guide is an independent overview for print professionals and is not affiliated with ATT; confirm current details and terms directly on the official site.

Romania’s printing sector spans commercial print, packaging and label production, with Cluj-Napoca — ATT’s founding city — a notable hub in the historically strong Transylvanian graphic-arts region. The association’s growth from a regional body into a national employers’ voice mirrors the way the industry itself has consolidated and professionalised.

Its education work matters here: rebuilding university-level polygraphic training and supporting high-school practical placements addresses the skills gap that many Romanian print shops feel directly. Whatever segment a member serves — books, packaging or labels — the daily production reality is the same, and it starts with getting the prepress right before anything reaches the press.

Whether an ATT member runs a commercial offset press, a packaging line or a label 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, an upside-down back or a mis-set creep means wasted paper and press time.

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

• Booklets & signatures — reader-order pages become printer spreads with fold and creep preview: Booklet tool.
• N-up & gang runs — flyers, cards and packaging inserts arranged with gutters, marks and visible page order: Grid tool.
• Tickets, labels & step-and-repeat — repeatable layouts with crop and cut marks for label and packaging work.
• Printer marks — automatic crop, fold, registration marks and colour bars.
• Privacy-first, local processing — PDFs stay on the device, which matters for confidential client and packaging 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 practical first tool for the small and mid-sized firms common across Romania’s print sector. Compare it against desktop systems in our best imposition software guide.