September 2011
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Jon Beacham / The Brother In Elysium
222 Roebling St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 http://www.thebrotherinelysium.com Jon Beacham is an artist (and former book dealer) who used to be based in Beacon NY, but is now in Brooklyn where he operates a letterpress out of his Williamsburg studio. I’ve used him to do a couple projects and they’ve all turned out well. Jon has a good aesthetic and has offered great advice on how to...
Sep 9th
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May 2011
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1984 Printing
674-B 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612 phone: 510.836.2385 http://www.1984printing.com/         These guys can do cheap, good quality perfect bound books.         —Paul Barron
May 5th
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November 2010
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Park Press
930 E. 162nd Street South Holland, IL 60473 phone: 888.593.3154 http://www.parkpress.com/ They specialize in newsprint catalog, booklet, and broadsheet printing. Were easy to work with and priced competitively. —Anonymous
Nov 3rd
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Capitol Rubber Stamp
Austin, Texas phone: 512.447.0335 jack@capstamp.com Jack Pike makes all of my rubber stamps, big (7” wide) and small (5mm). Self-inkers and handle stampers alike. Great, classic Stuff. He’s the best. —Harsh Patel
Nov 3rd
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October 2010
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Printografen
Halmstad, Sweden phone: +46 42 167 603  www.printografen.se Awesome offset printer you can trust with more difficult tasks (bindings etc) even if you can’t actually go to the printer. They also have a big network of smaller, specialized printers and binders when neccessary. And they answer the telephone and are super friendly! —Konst & Teknik
Oct 16th
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Norrbacka Tryckeri
Stockholm, Sweden +46 8 341 383 www.norrbackatryckeri.se The one and only letterpress printer in central Stockholm, maybe in all of Stockholm, run by one person, the amazing Thomas Asplund. You can trust Thomas as he will tell you if something does or doesn’t work. We print more or less every ‘smaller’ thing we do here and can’t recommend him enough!...
Oct 16th
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Marginal Editions
548 West 22nd St. New York, NY, 10011 646-338-4330 marginaleditions@yahoo.com My friend Brad is a Silkscreen / Letterpress / Fine Art printer in Brooklyn and I have used him for years.  He’s super meticulous and works for himself as well as other artists and art printers.  He is a real problem solver and all around swell guy.   Contact: Brad Ewing. —Carl Williamson
Oct 11th
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July 2010
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Desktopublisher
177 Livingston Brooklyn, NYC 917-445-3875 alex.damianos@gmail.com     Low minimum printing on a Risograph GR3750 machine, has multiple colors available.     — Anonymous
Jul 3rd
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August 2009
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A & A Printing, Inc.
6103 Johns Road, Suite 5-6 Tampa, FL 33634 Voice: (813) 886-0065 x108, Ask for Billy Fax: (813) 884-0304 printshopcentral.com Small book runs, digital, good for independents. One step above Lulu, they will do whatever your specs are and for less. —Robin Cameron
Aug 28th
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American/ Foothill Publishing Co., Inc.
10009 Commerce Ave, Tujunga, CA 91042 (818) 352-7878 Email/Website: roger@americanfoothill.com Newsprint printer, speedy & friendly. Contact: Roger Wirsing. —Anonymous
Aug 26th
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Asia Pacific Offset
870 Market St. Suite 801, San Francisco, CA 94102 (800) 756-2309 / (415) 433-3488 www.asiapacificoffset.com The books are printed in Hong Kong and their quality is excellent. Very easy to work with. Contact: Amy Armstrong. —Richard Hertz, Minneola Press
Aug 24th
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Axelle Fine Arts
Brooklyn, NY (718) 246-1200 Luther Davis luther@axelle.com Luther has silkscreened the boxes for the last 2 issues of NDP, and has also printed a variety of silkscreened multiples for the publication. —North Drive Press
Aug 23rd
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Bookmobile
Minneapolis, MN (763) 398-0030 www.bookmobile.com Recommended but no comments provided yet
Aug 21st
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C&C Offset Printing Co., (USA) Inc.
Portland, OR 97202 (503) 233-1834 http://www.ccoffset.com/ Quality is good and they’re cheap. I think print run minimum is 1000. —Hedi Kholti, Semiotext(e)
Aug 21st
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Calff & Meischke
Amsterdam, The Netherlands +31206220888 info@calff.nl http://www.calff.nl/ One of the best high-quality printers in the Netherlands. 1st choice of Dutch graphic designers. Expensive. —Anonymous
Aug 11th
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Cassochrome
Belgium 056738393 http://www.csc.be/ Good quality color printer. Good image handling, and very good printers working at the machines. Good value for money when it comes to full color offset printing. English, French and Dutch spoken. Minimum run size 300 copies. —Francesca Grassi, http://sortby.org/
Aug 2nd
July 2009
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Color Graphics
888 Tennessee St. San Francisco, CA 94107 415-821-7171 www.colorgraphics.com Very good quality, print runs of 1000 and up. —Seems Books, www.seemsbooks.com
Jul 20th
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Die Keure
Brugge, Belgium +3250471272 info@diekeure.be http://www.diekeure.be/ Very good all-round high-quality printer. They do a lot of art books. They are much cheaper than Dutch printers. That’s partly because the environmental regulations concerning printing ink and chemicals in Belgium are not as strict as in The Netherlands, so they work with cheaper, but more polluting inks. But with ...
Jul 11th
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Dorado Press
San Fernando, CA (818) 365-4433 lynn@doradopress.com http://www.doradopress.com/ Specialize in music and media packaging (LP jackets etc), either printed or blank. Super nice and relatively fast, they have nice terrier dogs in the office. Prefer contact by phone. —Luke Plus, Lucky Dragons / Sumi Ink Club
Jul 1st
June 2009
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DruckVogt GmbH
Schmidstraße 610179 BerlinGermany+49 (30) 27 56 16 - 0 www.druckvogt.de We used these guys to print off a book and it came out really well. We varied stocks and they were happy to accommodate our requests. —Anthony Salvador
Jun 20th
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Emily Johnson
Cody, Nebraska / Portland, Oregon emprintpress@yahoo.com Vandercook, C&P and Miehle Verticle letterpress printing done very meticulously by one person. Honestly, the best letterpresser I know. —Flint Jamison
Jun 10th
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F.A. Daniels
915 N. Highland Ave. Hollywood, CA 90038 (800) 454-5414, (323) 871-1800  www.fadaniels.com Quality, affordable, low-minimum offset printing for posters, postcards, and print material in Los Angeles. Located in Hollywood, they have experience working with local galleries and art institutions. —Mark Owens
Jun 6th
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Fastback Creative Books
New York, NY fastback.com Print On Demand and Case Binding —Anonymous
Jun 2nd
May 2009
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G&P Printing
New York, NY (212) 274-8092 files.gp@verizon.net This is the Chinatown-based printer that North Drive Press uses for most of our offset printing work. Our contact is named Andy. —North Drive Press We have used G+P to perfect bind our stuff. The quality is really great and it’s definitely reasonable in price. —Megan Plunkett, Kingsboro Press My art students researched quotes from numerous...
May 21st
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Graphic Venue
1111 El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo CA 90245 USA Tel: 310-321-7373 www.graphicvenue.com Phil was really helpful in getting all our things printed and cut how we wanted. He tackled some tricky die cutting work for a small booklet folded down from one sheet and didn’t have any qualms about it. They also push themselves as being a greener printer and utilize a waterless press that uses soy based...
May 10th
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Graphics Factory Inc.
100 E. Fourth Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067 (248) 545-6331  Contact@GraphicsFactoryInc.com http://www.graphicsfactoryinc.com/ For high quality large format color photographs. The owner Bob is a perfectionist and does some of the best digital printing I’ve seen — many artists in Detroit and nationwide use his services. Excellent pricing too. He also does large banners and...
May 2nd
April 2009
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Greenerprinter
Berkeley, CA www.greenerprinter.com Wind-powered plant, soy inks, recycled stocks. Automated online ordering system, general turnaround is 7 days (2 weeks with shipping). Quality is great for the price you pay. No minimum requirements. I’ve used them for some postcard jobs I needed done in under a week, and some poster jobs that took a couple of days longer. Good idea to request some...
Apr 20th
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Hemlock
Burnaby, BC, Canada (800) 663-2456 contact@hemlock.com www.hemlock.com Besides Die Keure, I’ve never worked with an offset printer as good as these guys. Their professionalism and quality comes at an expense, but the products of their process are of the best calibre. They are very familiar printing art books. They treat their clients very well. —Veneer Magazine
Apr 11th
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Hignell Book Printing
Winnipeg, Canada (204) 784-1030 / (800) 304-5553 books@hignell.mb.ca http://www.hignell.mb.ca/ Recommended, but no comments provided yet.
Apr 2nd
March 2009
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Imago
New York, NY (212) 921-4411 http://www.imagousa.com We’ve yet to work with them. They were recommended by T-Shore as a high-quality printer that CAN handle 4-color text/interior printing. They also print in China. Allow for a 12-week window: 2 weeks proofing/pre-production, 4 weeks manufacturing, 6 weeks shipping from China! —Anonymous
Mar 21st
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Instant Publishers
Collierville, TN (800) 259-2592 / (901) 853-7070 http://www.instantpublishers.com Cheapest online printers I have come across. Hard to communicate with, slow. But good for BASIC books. CHEAP. —Anonymous
Mar 11th
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J.E.J. Print, Inc.
673 Monterey Pass Road, Monterey Park, CA 91754 (626) 281-8989 / Fax: (626) 281-0859 Newsprint, 1000+ minimum quick turn around. —Anonymous JEJ prints newspapers on a web press.  The minimum is 500 and they also do single sheet newsprint jobs. The pricing goes up in very small increments as you print more, for example it will only cost only about 10% more to print 1500 papers instead of...
Mar 2nd
February 2009
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Kopykat
London, England U.K. 020 7739 2451 print@kopykat.co.uk www.kopykat.co.uk Fast, high-quality and very reasonably priced—our experience of printing The Coelacanth Journal (b/w - 200 x A5 p.36) with Paul Moretti at Kopykat has always been easy and successful. —The Coelacanth Press
Feb 20th
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KNUST / Extrapool
Nijmegen, The Netherlands (+31) 24 - 3 888 234  drukwerk@extrapool.nl http://www.extrapool.nl or http://www.extrapool.nl/knust.html Knust specializes in color stencil printing (mimeograph), using riso or ricoh machines with water-based inks (they mix alot of the colors there) — very recognizable bold color prints! They will also do pre-press and bookbinding, everything priced...
Feb 16th
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Kulturwerk of BBK Berlin
Berlin, Germany +493061401570 druckwerkstatt@bbk-kulturwerk.de http://www.bbk-kulturwerk.de/cms/site/2cat32.html It’s a good printer for art projects (won’t collaborate with any other type of initiators). Very cheap even for Berlin, but you will have to physically participate in the production. Contact: Matthias Mrowka (speaks English). —Anonymous
Feb 11th
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Linco Printing
Long Island City, NY (718) 937-5141 Tammy.Lin@lincoprinting.com / http://www.lincoprinting.com/ I haven’t actually worked with that many printers. I make all my books by hand or with Lulu.com, an online on-demand printer (i’m sure you know about them already). I just started working with a place here in ny called Linco in long island city. They are ok.. and cheap. I’ve been...
Feb 2nd
January 2009
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Lithotech-National
9950 East Baldwin Place El Monte, CA 91743 Toll-free: 888-332-8791 Tel: 626-433-1333 Fax: 626-433-1338 www.lithotech-national.com Good quality, print runs of 1000 and up —Seems Books, www.seemsbooks.com
Jan 21st
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Lulu Printing
Online Print-On-Demand service http://www.lulu.com/ Very easy to use, inexpensive print-on-demand service for small print runs, but they’re still working out lots of bugs. Quality is good but inconsistent. One batch I ordered looked perfect. Another batch had pages with text slanting slightly. Cover artwork colors for their default online book preview are incorrect, so it’s better...
Jan 11th
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Magnum Offset
Hong Kong (852) 25552438 Alice Fan - alice@magnumoffset.com.hk / http://www.magnumoffset.com.hk Great quality and fairly quick turn around. Minimum of 500 copies for offset printing. They do digital laser printing as well but I have never done that with them so am unsure about quality and minimums. —Anonymous
Jan 2nd
December 2008
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Marcy Printing
777 Kent Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 (718) 935-9100 www.marcybusinessforms.com Contact: Jonah I use an amazing printer/binder here to finish (fold, bind and trim) my book projects. They are based in Brooklyn and always give me excellent price for stitching signatures etc. —Duncan Hamilton
Dec 21st
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Mart Spruyt
Amsterdam, The Netherlands +31205860777 info@spruijt.nl http://www.martspruijt.nl/ Might be the best printer in The Netherlands. Very good with photography. Very Expensive. —Anonymous
Dec 11th
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Merch Guy
89-B Niagara St. Toronto, ON M5V1C3  Canada (416) 203-2389 www.merchguy.com Stacey and his team can do anything. Good fast and cheap. Seriously. —Tonik Wojtyra
Dec 2nd
November 2008
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Muscle Bound Book Bindery
701 Plymouth Avenue N Minneapolis, MN 55411 USA 612.522.4406 www.mbbindery.com They do layflat binding as well as other forms of binding. They don’t do smyth sewn signatures in house. Rather inexpensive as well. —Anthony Salvador
Nov 20th
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Newhall Blueprint
23655 San Fernando Road Suite B Newhall CA 91321 USA 661-259-1920 All these guys do are print bluelines (blueprints) and blacklines, as well as digital black and white architectural prints. I have printed a few things with them and they never hesitate to help me out or ask any questions and the quality is great as are the prices. —Anthony Salvador
Nov 10th
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NPN Printers
Breda, Netherlands T 076 531 95 65 F 076 531 95 68 www.npndrukkers.nl info@npndrukkers.nl High quality printer with passion for the product and reasonable prices. In recent years they have been winning more and more awards with their books. Also other printed matter is handled great by them, as Graphic Design Festival we work with them often and have high quality...
Nov 2nd
October 2008
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Odermatt AG
Dallenwil, Switzerland +41 (0) 41 629 79 00 info@dod.ch www.dod.ch Probably the best printer in Switzerland. They always win many prizes at the “Best Swiss Book” competition. They are not cheap like most printers in Switzerland, but I have also heard they can be cheap. The quality is really good; I have the feeling they can do anything. The staff are really nice and...
Oct 21st
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On Demand Printing Center
1888 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025 (310) 434-1234 http://www.ondemandla.com/ For books without illustrations we used On Demand Printing Center in West L.A. When we had a problem with a printing run, they re-printed without charge. —Richard Hertz, Minneola Press
Oct 11th
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Paper Chase Printing
Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood) (323) 874-2300 www.paperchase.net Until a few years ago they housed the highest line-screen press in the US, recently replacing their system with an HP Indigo and began using only a web press in-house. The advanced pre-press department—including custom color profiling and proofing systems—is still in place, making them one of the only short-run presses with as much...
Oct 2nd
September 2008
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Pinball Publishing
Portland, OR (503) 238-4514 info@pinballpublishing.com www.pinballpublishing.com Great at one or two color sheets, small books, cards. Very friendly and attentive staff and everyone there loves hippy inks and papers. —Veneer Magazine
Sep 21st
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The Printing House
840 King St. W. Toronto, ON, M5V 1P1 Canada (416) 703-6936 Ask for Tony or Dan—These guys are great for short run or long run—photocopy/laser print staple bound books and their prices are amazing. Their shop can do other stuff, like binding and colour printing but it’s gets more expensive and I’ve never actually done much of that there. But if you need a black and white ‘zine...
Sep 11th