Printing & binding resources

This is a listing of printing & binding resources compiled by Printed Matter. Printed Matter is not affiliated with any of the listed businesses, unless otherwise noted. If you have a resource that you would like to have listed, please email bulletin@printedmatter.org. Listings will be posted at Printed Matter’s discretion.

California

1984 Printing, Oakland
Offers sheetfed offset printing and short-run digital copier printing on 100% recycled papers using soy-based, zero-VOC cmyk inks and recycled black ink, plus animal-free book binding.

Color Image Printing, Los Angeles
Full-service commercial printing company.

F.A. Daniels, Los Angeles
Employs both digital printing and traditional offset printing processes.

Greener Printer, Berkeley
Specializes in providing green solutions for business marketing and communication needs.

Mir Printing & Graphics
An offset lithographic commercial printer set up to handle bulk printing services.

Nonstop Printing
Start-up minded printer that offers full digital printing and binding services with a focus on short-run digital matte ink, foil, raised spot gloss, and die cutting capabilities.

Paper Chase Printing, Los Angeles
Prints books, posters, business cards, and stationery, and offers in-house design.

PsPrint, Oakland
Provides custom printing, die cutting, design services, and foil stamping.

QuinnEssentials Books & Printing Inc., Petaluma
Four color printing, including complicated and unusual designs.

Typecraft, Pasadena, Santa Barbara
Digital Printing & Binding services.

Colorado

Signature Offset, Denver
Computer-to-plate (CtP) and UV-cured Didde web printing. Four-color printing.

Connecticut

Allied Printing, Manchester
Commercial/financial printing services company. Uses offset web and sheetfed printing, digital printing, finishing equipment, and fulfillment solutions.

Florida

A&A Printing, Tampa
Printer with publishing services.

Georgia

Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta
Hi-Lo operates as both a print studio and a gallery for up and coming artists.

Illinois

Park Press, South Holland
Newspaper press and binder.

Perfectly Acceptable Press, Chicago
Risograph printing studio and publishing house. Printing is done with a Risograph RZ 990.

Schiele Group, Elk Village
Commercial printing, binding, & mailing services.

SPARE, Chicago, IL
Risograph printing studio

Lousiana

Paper Machine, New Orleans
Paper Machine is a 5000 sq ft printshop in the Lower 9th Ward housing a range of traditional and cutting edge print technologies, to enhance, amplify, and explore New Orleans’s rich printing heritage while providing significant opportunities for artists and residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and beyond.

The Southern Letterpress, New Orleans
Offers high-quality letterpress printing services and a range of design services including wedding invitations, book layouts, logos, branding and packaging. Hand-set metal and wood type, in-house photopolymer plates technology.

Michigan

Utley Brothers Printing, Troy
Offset, digital, and letterpress printing.

Minnesota

Bookmobile, Minneapolis
Art book and digital book printing.

Muscle Bound Book Bindery, Minneapolis
Bookbinding services to both library binding and commercial customers. Side-sewn case binding, layflat adhesive binding, and perfect binding. Complementary capabilities include folding, cutting, drilling, shrink wrapping, laminating and more.

Shapco, Minneapolis
Produces high quality projects for clients in Art, Financial, Hospitality, Entertainment, Non-profit and Self Publishing. Specialize in unique bindings, creative techniques and premium quality products.

Missouri

Oddities, Kansas City
Commercial silkscreen and letterpress print shop, digital design including but not limited to the Adobe Creative Suite, analog design such as typesetting, collage, painting, lettering, writing and photography.

New York

Asia Pacific Offset, New York
Produces books and printed media.

Boxcar Press, Syracuse
Letterpress Printing & services

Brooklyn Archival, Brooklyn
A boutique printing service for artists, galleries or anyone looking for premium quality Giclee or inkjet prints

The Brother in Elysium, Kingston
Offers letterpress printing services, using hand set type of classic and rare typefaces. The Studio welcomes custom print jobs including: Book work, ephemera, announcements & artist commissioned work.

Bushwick Print Lab, Brooklyn
This silkscreen studio is open to the larger creative community for basic to advanced printmaking workshops, hourly studio rentals, and pay services such as screen making, film outputs, and print production

Common Satisfactory Standard, Brooklyn
Risograph print and design studio. Low-cost alternative for printing and self publishing.

The Copy Specialist, New York
Postcards, Banners, Posters, Copying, Printing.

Curcio Printing, Vestal
Curcio Printing is a women-owned business located in (upstate) Vestal, NY. We offer affordable book printing of all types. We’re able to print just about anything - and also offer full design, bindery and mail services as well. We do not do hard case binding. Contact us for a free quote!

Endless Editions, New York
Printing and publishing project devoted to producing material by and for artists.

Imago, New York
Manage print, production and manufacture a range of products, predominately using Chinese suppliers. Also has locations in: California, UK, France, Australia, Hong Kong, & Malaysia.

Kayrock Screenprinting, Brooklyn
Kayrock specializes in hand printed fine art editions, posters, cards, books, shirts, tote bags, graphic design, custom projects, micro registration and the metric system

Linco, Long Island City
Specializes in 4-color offset lithographic printing, both coldset web and sheet-fed, which can be combined with our in-house saddle stitch or binding services to produce a range of products from magazines, booklets, to soft cover paperback books.

Marginal Editions, New York
Specializing in Letterpress and Silkscreen editions.

Paper Slam, New York
NY boutique printing company that makes printing promotional and marketing materials super easy.

Regent Publishing Services, New York
Manufacturer of books, with locations in New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and San Diego.

Secret Riso Club, Brooklyn
Secret Riso Club is a design and risograph studio based In Ridgewood, NY. They offer graphic design services, risograph printing, and photo printing services. They print zines, small publications, posters, cards, assorted material for local arts and community organizations, and flyers for bands, among other projects. Currently riso printing is available in Blue, Red, Yellow and Black.

Sesame Letterpress & Design, Brooklyn
Boutique design and letterpress print shop.

Small Editions, Brooklyn
Pro­duces high qual­ity hand made books, boxes and mul­ti­ples and man­ages the pro­duc­tion for larger edi­tions. Ser­vices: Book bind­ing, Box mak­ing, Con­sult­ing, De­sign, Foil Stamp­ing, Gild­ing and Edge­paint­ing, Mul­ti­ples, One-of-a-kind books, Print­ing for books (dig­i­tal off­set, off­set, riso­graph, large for­mat, screen print­ing).

Soft city printing, Brooklyn
Risograph printing collective.

Supreme Digital, Brooklyn
Giclee printing, archival printing & finishing, visuals retail display printing

Uses of Literature, Brooklyn
The Uses of Literacy is the working name of designer and publisher Duncan Hamilton. Conducts creative workshops about independent publishing, how to run a small press with digital duplicators and how to make simple books and pamphlets.

New Jersey

Conveyor, Jersey City
Production house specializing in small run editions of artist books, zines, and other printed matter related to photography.

Ohio

Acme Binding, Chesterland
Nationwide library binding and information services company. Locations also in: Indiana, Massachusetts, and North Carolina

Oregon

Brown Printing, Portland
Using environmentally-friendly practices to print high quality.

Grossenbacher Bros, Inc., Portland
High quality custom binding services. Specializes in handmade books, boxes, and other custom products.

Pennsylvania

Risolve Studio, Lincoln University
Risograph print house and design studio.

Tennessee

Instant Publisher, Collierville
Offers quick and affordable book printing service, knowledgeable customer support representatives and a variety of book printing service options.

Hatch Show Print, Nashville
Hatch Show Print, a working letterpress print shop since 1879, uses its collection to educate diverse audiences and to create iconic designs that express and commemorate America’s evolving cultural identity.

Australia

Momento Pro, Sydney
A family-owned print studio and binding company, Momento Pro offers on-demand book service dedicated to producing photo books of exceptional printing and binding quality. Delivery to Australia and New Zealand available.

Belgium

Cassochrome, Waregem
Offers eco-friendly HUV Offset Printing, binding and finishing.

Canada

Colour Code, Toronto
An independent print studio and publishing platform. Specializes in high quality, artist friendly printing for local, US and international customers. Also publishes and distributes small-run artist books, comics, posters and other printed matter.

Hemlock Printers, Vancouver
Commercial printer with offset and digital printing services.

Hignell Book Printing, Winnipeg
Digital and offset printing. Also offers a variety of binding types, and can do both small and large print runs.

Moniker, Vancouver
Produces collaborative publications but also takes custom orders. Also offers graphic design services and risograph file setup.

Prolific Group, Winnipeg
Commercial digital printing, binding, and mailing services.

Westcan Printing Group, Winnipeg
Produces full color magazines, poetry books, literary journals, independent comic books, music magazines, drugstore novels… from disk or hard copy to final finished product. Services includes full service electronic pre-press department, small and large format presses including a recently installed Heidelberg 10 Colour Press. Offer an in house full service bindery.

Germany

Kulturwerk of BBK Berlin
Offers all the facilities for mechanical, chemical and digital printing techniques. Ranging from the traditional printing methods, such as book printing, etching and lithography to screen-printing and offset print. Studio runs workshops for papermaking and bookbinding. Traditional printing editions to crossover techniques and experimental projects.

Vogt Foliendruck GmbH, Berlin
Stickers, mousepads, lenticulars, and product printing.

Italy

Pigment Workroom, Bari
A public art multidisciplinary studio based in Bari, Italy. Offers murals, screenprinting, risograph printing, graphic design, exhibitions, and workshops.

Japan

Artist Resource, Tokyo
The ultimate guide for your special printing needs. A list of the best printing services for high quality prints and unique design projects.

Lithuania

Kopa
Design consultation, LE-UV offset printing, binding & finishing.

The Netherlands

KNUST / Extrapool, Nijmegen
Specializes in risograph printing.

Singapore

Tien Wah Press
Specializes in book printing, trading card game printing, stationery, digital app development, warehousing and third party logistics, we satisfy a universe of needs.

Switzerland

Noir sur Noir, Geneva
Offset and Typography.

United Kingdom

Folio Atelier, London
Creative bookbinding studio working with artists and independent publishers to fabricate their bespoke short-run publications and limited editions. All our work is handmade in our studio in London, UK. We collaborate with artists worldwide.

Mazzoti Books, London
Mazzotti Books is an independent bookbinding and printing studio situated in East London, owned and run by Manuel Mazzotti.
He is a bookbinder, designer and trained engineer who uses his diverse knowledge to create limited edition books, prints, book prototypes and presentation boxes. His passion for bookbinding and printing has led him to collaborate with a wide variety of clients from independent artists to architectural firms and publishing companies.

Book Binding Links and Resources
Free resources for bookbinders.

Lulu
Offers the option to create books, ebooks, photobooks and more as well as the option to sell your books online.

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