10009 Commerce Ave, Tujunga, CA 91042
(818) 352-7878
Email/Website: roger@americanfoothill.com
Newsprint printer, speedy & friendly. Contact: Roger Wirsing.
—Anonymous
10009 Commerce Ave, Tujunga, CA 91042
(818) 352-7878
Email/Website: roger@americanfoothill.com
Newsprint printer, speedy & friendly. Contact: Roger Wirsing.
—Anonymous
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
673 Monterey Pass Road, Monterey Park, CA 91754
(626) 281-8989 / Fax: (626) 281-0859
Newsprint, 1000+ minimum quick turn around.
—Anonymous
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
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 to upload a customized book preview. Also, there are quality problems with their European printers. Basically, after uploading PDF files of the cover and guts, you place orders when needed (no minimum), and you receive discounts when ordering multiple copies (at least 10). The printer they use is based on where books are shipped. So one way around the non-U.S. printers is to have books shipped directly to a U.S. distributor who can take international orders. Or if you’re in the U.S., ship the books to yourself and do direct mail order.
—Sharon Cheslow
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
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
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 helpful. I think they can be fast, and also print small amounts. They often work with the best bookbinder in Switzerland: www.bubu.ch
—Anonymous
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 control as an offset print shop. They also have a full bindery and staff of bookmakers in-house who in addition to making hard and soft covers, perfect-bound and sewn bindings, can emboss, deboss, and foil stamp.
—Nicole Katz, Eighth Veil
Colorado, USA
(720) 562-4244
http://www.signatureoffset.com/
Newsprint and sheet-fed printing, inexpensive and fast. Ask for Brian Wagstaff.
—Megawords Magazine
