[1] The company was founded in 1703, when Izaak Enschedé registered with the Printers Guild in Haarlem.

[2] The famous punch-cutter Joan Michael Fleischman was employed there in the eighteenth century.

In 1978, to celebrate their 275th anniversary, Enschedé commissioned Bram de Does, one of Holland’s leading typographers, to design a digital typeface specifically for phototypesetting.

The result was Trinité, a face which clearly shows its provenance and which continues the tradition of type design established at Enschedé so many years before.

Enschedé specialises in security document design and printing (banknotes, postage stamps, parking permits, etc.

In 2016 reports emerged of the theft of 'a significant sum' of 50 euro notes at Joh.