We travel a lot — and there was nothing romantic about it: the press we had to inspect could be anywhere. And every trip started the same way — searching for a decent hotel. In theory, you can manually open three or four local hotel sites, scroll, compare. In practice, by the fourth you’re already yawning, and the fifth you won’t even open. That’s how human attention works: you see the top of the results, not the whole market.

For you, it means choosing “from a few,” not “from the best.” For hotels, it means staying invisible even if they’re truly good. That’s why the whole world uses Booking.com or Airbnb: everything in one place, filters, reviews, ratings, clear rules. And the service provider wins too — they can present their listing in a way that convinces you.

Searching for a hotel is a typical example of how you should not voluntarily deprive yourself of the right to choose.

In printing, it’s the exact same story — only the stakes are higher. Yes, there are online resources for buying equipment — pressxchange, roepa.com, pressdepo. But they rarely solve the main thing: access to specialists when you don’t need to “browse a listing,” but to solve a real problem fast. For example, when the owner of a Heidelberg XL106 urgently needs cylinder repair, or when a print shop buys a KBA Rapida 106 and is looking for a commissioning crew without paying for expensive OEM service.

The owner of a digital or offset print shop, an author, a die-making company — everyone knows their craft well. But skill alone isn’t enough: to be found, you need outreach, emails, time, and sometimes even participation in trade shows like Labelexpo or DRUPA. That’s how the industry has lived for years — “by phone calls” — and it loses money precisely because of that closed loop.

The customer is trapped in their own space too. Where do you quickly find an illustrator for a new book? Where do you find a packaging designer working in ArtiosCAD if you don’t want every project done “by one hand” and in one style?

I know excellent packaging and label designers, box-structure specialists — they work as freelancers or through small studios. Their problem isn’t quality, but access to the market and a guarantee of payment for their work. That’s why the same request is heard in every country and every language: “Can you recommend someone?” — and then a chain of coincidences begins, where the deciding factor is not competence but someone’s contact in a phone.

Our marketplace is exactly about making choices not “by acquaintance,” but by facts: portfolio, specialization, reviews, rating, experience.

“Your friend” may be mistaken, but reviews from real buyers are unlikely to be. In addition, your choice is greatly simplified if you have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with a particular person’s portfolio and understand whether their style is what you need. Order services and leave reviews. Our platform does not allow fake reviews without real purchases.

This matters even for the most down-to-earth, “non-glamorous” tasks. A well-known case: a small Polish company, tired of the quick failure of original AMS LED dryer chips, developed its own design — more reliable and cheaper than the original. If you’re in another region, you likely won’t even hear about such a solution. Same with service: a friend might give you the contact of a mechanic for a Manroland R700 — but you don’t see their real level and you don’t know how well they fit your specific job. When replacing rollers, the choice returns: buy new Boettcher rollers or send the old ones for reconditioning? The second option is cheaper, but how do you verify the contractor’s competence — without weeks of messaging and stress?

And then there’s financial risk: a crew dismantling a Heidelberg CD102-6+L didn’t fully drain the oil, and during loading it spilled onto the sidewalk on private property. The owner paid for cleaning the asphalt and issued an invoice — the contractor was left without money. Or another scenario: a mechanic comes to fix a Rapida 105, and gets paid a month or two later after daily reminders. We offer a simple way out: place the job through Pressinspection — and work by clear, understandable rules.