P R I N T I N G * R E S O U R C E S

PRINTERS I LIKE

RECORDS
For special LP or CD packages Stumptown printers in Portland, OR are great. They have good prices and design services and also sell pre- die-cut packaging in small numbers if you wanted to print your own small run release.

WEDDING INVITATIONS
Echo Letterpress is a busy store front letterpress shop in Jeffersonville, NY.
Also I've worked a bunch with Kerin Brooks Smith at Em Space Editions in Shandaken.
Both of these printers do design work as well as printing and they're both upstate near me.

SMALL RUN BOOK PRINTING
For black and white paperback books, the best deal you'll find will be in Winnepeg Manitoba. There are two printers I have used lots over the last ten years, Hignell and Westcan. Hignell is much quicker to get back to you if you're just looking for a one time 500 to 1000 print run book. I think Westcan prefers larger jobs.

SPECIAL ART BOOK PRINTING
For full-color books or hardcover or cloth bound or anything special like that, American publishers go to Asia. I have gotten several books printed by Wafai printing. Their office is in Hong Kong and their printing plant is in China. This is the case with any Chinese printer, actually. I occasionally see "Printed in Hong Kong" in a book and I'm positive its just the publisher pretending that because the office they have been corresponding with is in Hong Kong that the book is printed there. But most likely it is printed in Shenzhen, China an hour from Hong Kong where there are thousands of printing plants and almost everything you read comes from there. Wafai is wonderful to work with and I highly reccomend them. They can do anything.

For something really special that needs perfect quality and you can spend a little more money, I'd go to Oddi in Iceland. You really do want to go there, too, its a good excuse for a vacation in Reykjavik.