--- title: "Celebrating 20 years: Inside Platform Print" description: We visited Platform Print in Auckland to mark 20 years and highlight their work on our Made Crews and Hoods, our most premium blanks yet. image: https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/Platform-Print_Hero_D3-1.jpg --- CLOSE CLOSE [![asc-journal-logo](https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/asc-journal-logo.png)](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal) [![asc-journal-logo](https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/asc-journal-logo.png)](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal) - [WHOLESALE RESOURCES](https://www.ascolour.co.nz/assets) - [CREATE AN ACCOUNT](https://www.ascolour.co.nz/signup-landing/) - [GO TO MAIN SITE](https://www.ascolour.co.nz/) - [WHOLESALE RESOURCES](https://www.ascolour.co.nz/assets) - [CREATE AN ACCOUNT](https://www.ascolour.co.nz/signup-landing/) ARROW ![](https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/Platform-Print_Hero_D3-1.jpg) [Product](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/product), [Creative Projects](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/creative-projects), [Interview](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/interview) # Celebrating 20 years: Inside Platform Print Jul 24, 2025 • [AS Colour](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/author/as-colour) 1 minute read For 20 years, our incredible customers have been at the heart of everything we do. Your support, collaboration, and shared successes have shaped who we are today. To celebrate these relationships, over the next few months we want to share some of these customers who have been a part of our journey. Every single one of you deserves our thanks. We visited Karen and Roger Mete at Platform Print, located within North Shore’s industrial hub in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2012, Karen and Roger established Platform Print, a screen printing and digital printing studio and built it up to a renowned powerhouse producing world tour merchandise, promotional product, corporate wear, and some of New Zealand’s top clothing brands. ![PLATFORM PRINT_1b](https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/PLATFORM%20PRINT_1b.jpg) To this day, we love Platform’s ‘old school’ ways, thriving off word of mouth, phone and email orders, with no website or social media presence. Karen has had a long-standing passion for printing for the last 49 years, and we enjoy seeing her expertise being shared with her team of 15, who work alongside her in their manual and automatic presses. She gets out of bed in the morning for her cat and her love of screenprinting.  “A quality blank is so important to confidently sell to customers, knowing you can rely on quality and consistency are paramount.” - Karen Our 13 year relationship with Karen & Roger represents everything we value about our decorator community: authentic, skilled and drive by a genuine love for what they do. Check out our bespoke ‘20 years made better’ artwork on our [5150 Made Crew](https://ascolour.com/made-hood-5151/) and [5151 Made Hood](https://ascolour.com/made-crew-5150/). Our Made Better franchise was carefully selected for this collaboration for our 20th year, as our most premium blanks ever and bringing it back this year as remastered originals. ![PLATFORM PRINT_2b](https://info.ascolour.com/hubfs/PLATFORM%20PRINT_2b.jpg) Photographed by [Kristen Alexander](https://www.kristenwheeler.co.uk/) [![CELEBRATING 20 YEARS](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/20447527/interactive-193153493908.png)](https://info.ascolour.com/hs/cta/wi/redirect?encryptedPayload=AVxigLL%2BNojBiTBKJ4O493RL7dAxagwalYR9GPvxeoT5%2FHU72qiHPJPehmEXSYfoFcDr8HjopsIaFcj3JPKL1d7sJpiN8rHdulhVH3ovBL%2BzHAubhwhG3N%2B%2FLQPTAZiyBpU5lZsjzMZE%2Bu0l0XaEcY0md%2FKZEv51NT%2BGM3aR801OEtzOpIlq%2FVh2J94lqBBtmM4qnA%3D%3D&webInteractiveContentId=193153493908&portalId=20447527)   - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Share [facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.ascolour.com%2Fthe-journal%2F20-years-platform-print%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dfacebook) [twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.ascolour.com%2Fthe-journal%2F20-years-platform-print%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&url=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.ascolour.com%2Fthe-journal%2F20-years-platform-print%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&source=tweetbutton&text=) [linkedin](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.ascolour.com%2Fthe-journal%2F20-years-platform-print%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dlinkedin) COPYLINK ## More from the journal [Product](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/product) [Creative Projects](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/creative-projects) ## [Built to Last: Our 99% Plastic Free Supply Chain](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/built-to-last-our-99-plastic-free-supply-chain) 2 minute read [Read More](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/built-to-last-our-99-plastic-free-supply-chain) [Product](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/product) [Creative Projects](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/creative-projects) ## [AS Colour x Chicken Shit Surfboards](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/ascolour-chickenshitsurfboards-bristol) 1 minute read [Read More](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/ascolour-chickenshitsurfboards-bristol) [Product](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/product) [Creative Projects](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/tag/creative-projects) ## [Inside Jailhouse Print Co.](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/inside-jailhouse-print-co) 1 minute read [Read More](https://info.ascolour.com/the-journal/inside-jailhouse-print-co) Premium Blanks. 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