Print Brokers
This page features a list of print brokers or print brokering sites. Most of these companies allow you to submit requests for printing quotations from their web site. Please note that this list is a work in progress. If you know of other book printers who should be added to this list, please email John Kremer.
A listing here does not imply an endorsement. Thanks for your support. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
Alliant Printing Services, Robert Beck, 6708 - 13th Avenue SW, Seattle WA 98106; 206-767-6084; Fax: 206-219-1104. Email: robert@alliantprinting.com. Specializes in print brokering of catalogs, magazines, and commercial printing.
Aloha Off-Shore Printers, Clai Carlton, Sales Rep; Cell: 808-384-3810. Email: carltonc001@hawaii.rr.com. “Representing the finest in printing from the orient. Terrific pricing and higher quality paper stocks.”
Aquent, 877-727-8637. Features more than 7,000 creative, print production, and web design experts from the AIGA.
Atlanta Georgia Printer — Offers 4-color printing as well as black and white.
Books Just Books, RJ Communications, Ron Pramschufer and John Grady, 800-621-2556; Fax: 800-754-7089. Email: rjcomm@aol.com. Established in 1994, this company works with five to ten printers to bring you the best price for book printing in any quantity. You can request a quotation direct from their web site.
Bid to Print, Jennie Thompson, Rosslyn VA; 703-812-9211. Email: JennieT@bidtoprint.com. Features tools to streamline the bidding process for buyers of direct marketing materials and production services.
Creative Printing, P O Box 6134, Oceanside CA 92052; 760-758-1140. Email: c-print@pacbell.net. Motto: Helping businesses maximize their print budget by finding the most cost-effective methods of printing.
Designs n Print, Michael Reid, Small Business Promotions; 678-886-8792. Email: designsn@designsnprint.com.
Digital Room, 10930 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90025; 888-888-4211; Fax: 310-575-4141. Printing of postcards, brochures, flyers, etc. in full-color.
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58k.com, 800-587-4617; 212-791-4351Commercial print buyers can submit their jobs and printers bid competitively in an open auction. Features 58,000 printers.
Fine Print, Joseph Gornail, 305 Madison Avenue #449, New York NY 10165; 212-619-5446; Fax: 212-957-1912. Email: joegornail@fineprintnyc.com. A Manhattan printer with full publishing and commercial printing capabilities. An interactive print and design website.
Four Colour Imports, Ron Hicks, 2843 Brownsboro Road #102, Louisville KY 40206; 502-896-9644; Fax: 502-896-9594. Email: sales@fourcolour.com. Printing brokers, they represent Everbest Printing Company in China and Friesens Printers in Canada. They specialize in high quality four-color illustrated books.
Graphic Placement, Steve Mandala, CEO; 949-453-2422; 800-453-2421. Email: stevem@graphicplacement.com. This print broker specializes in various specialty applications in web, in-line finishing, and promotional printing for the entertainment industries, electronic entertainment, fast food chains, and many professional and Fortune companies. Their hallmark is a proprietary software system developed to link all clients and internal operations on a common platform (IT System).
httPrint.com, 17 Bluxome Street, San Francisco CA 94107; 415-216-4283; Fax: 415-495-8936. “Your global print marketplace.” Provides competitive quotes, stock images, freelance resources, eprocurement software, and print workflow management tools. They also have a custom publishing arm, “providing all services needed to produce, distribute, and promote any print project.
Image Graphics, 229 Moore Street, Philadelphia PA 19148; 215-462-7446; 866-400-6870; Fax: 215-462-7466. Email: sales@myimagegraphics.com. A full service digital print and design firm offering brochures, annual reports, corporate documents, envelopes, letterheads, business cards, flyers, postcards, calendars, posters, catalogs, direct mail pieces, etc.
ImageX, 6150 Stoneridge Mall Road #200, Pleasanton CA 94588; 925-251-5605; Fax: 925-251-5601. Email: catherine@imagexprint.com.
Impress.com, 1309 S Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale CA 94087; 408-245-8336; 888-990-3663.
LDS Designs, Leslie Schatz. Email: billes@fidnet.com. A full service print brokerage, graphic design studio, and website construction company. Their web site allows you to submit a bid or create your own personalized products and order on-line through their print catalog.
LivePrint — Kinko's division
Media Link Communications, Bob Rose, 321 East 22nd Street, New York NY 10010; 212-674-8843; Fax: 212-260-8489. Email: mlinkcom@aol.com. Creative printers and holographic consultants for one- to six-color booklets, brochures, catalogs, special effects, lenticular imaging, printing on plastic, tattoos, magnets, direct mail, packaging, boxes, and promotion kits.
Mimeo.com — Gives users software to transmit documents to their Memphis, Tennessee center where the job is printed and shipped overnight via Federal Express.
My Postcard Printing, 10930 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90025; 866-266-6182. Printing of postcards in full-color.
Noosh — A collaborative site where printers, print buyers, and creative agencies work together to create, store, and manage documentation on print jobs (including print specifications, estimates, change requests, etc.). Noosh charges buyers a monthly service fee based on usage and printerss a transaction fee per job.
NowDocs.com — Send documents via the Internet to their printing centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Washington DC. In those cities, documents can be printed and delivered within hours.
Ooola Printing, Nick Zheng, President; 86-574-5661-0383; Fax: 86-575-8790-6097. Email: nick@ooola.com or info@ooola.com. “Ooola Printing provides wholesale printing services to international printing buyers. It has achieved its best efficiency by utilizing the high quality printing resources in China and web-to-print technology that streamlines the printing job management.”
Parker Business Communications, Randy Parker; 973-327-4014. Email: colorprinting1@optonline.net. “Business-to-business graphic arts and printing company that specializes in the tools that your sales team needs to help them sell your company's products and promote its services. Specializes in color catalog productio”
Print Easy, 221 Ridgedale Road, Friday Harbor WA 98250; 800-562-0888; Fax: 800-554-9880. Email: ThomGrayRome@printEasy.net. Compare the cost of print full-color versus black-ink only via their web site.
The Print Guide, Kevin Ladd. Email: kevinl@theprintguide.com. The source for custom printing. “Find recommended suppliers, information, articles, and frequently asked questions.”
Print Market, 2125 Powell Street, San Francisco CA 94133; 877-638-3325. Do your own print production management, or have them do it.
Print Quote Network — A print buyers site to connect printers and print buyers throughout Australia.
PrintBid, 1411 SW Morrison Street #350, Portland OR 97205; 503-248-2233; Fax: 503-248-7727. Features links to more than 1,700 printers of all sorts. Type in your specs for any sort of print job and the site will return a list of printers who can do the job. Offers a database of 62,000 printing companies.
Printing for Less — Four-color printing for business to business.
Printing Industry Exchange, P O Box 2238, Ashburn VA 20146-2238; 703-519-2187; Fax: 703-729-2268. Email: info@printindustry.com. Allows you to submit printing bid requests and get responses from many printers at once.
Printing You Can Trust, Jeff Moriarty. Email: jeff@pwim.com. Business to business printing service.
Prints Made Easy — Also sell business cards, mugs, mouse pads, etc. with low prices and an easy-to-use interface.
Quoteprint — Printing quotations.
RJ Communications, 51 East 42nd Street, New York NY 10017; 212-867-1331; Fax: 212-681-8002. Allows you to get printing estimates for mass market, trade paperbacks, and workbooks.
Southwest Offset Printing, Anthony Edwards, 13650 Gramercy Place, Gardena CA 90249-2465; 310-323-0112, ext 129; Fax: 310-323-6927. Email: sopae@msn.com. They deal in publication printing: weeklies, monthlies,quarterly publications. Heatset and cold web printing. From newsprint, book stock to gloss book. Saddlestitching or perfect binding and labeling, mailing or direct drop shipping.
Sprint Graphics, Alan Rosinsky, CEO; 888-667-2679. This discount color printing service offers digital printing of brochures, postcards, booklets & letterhead. Online estimates, orders & proofing. Shipping nationally.
Star Print Brokers, Nancy Starkman, President, P.O. Box 53592, Bellevue WA 98015; 425-603-1777; Fax: 425-603-0859. Email: info@starprintbrokers.com Printing high-quality, full-color, hardcover coffeetable books in the US and Asia. “Our pricing is extremely competitive.”
Tobu Print Group, Frank Gallagher, Production Manager, 2836 N Verdugo Road, Glendale CA 91208; 818-550-0594; Fax: 818-550-0794. Email: frank@tobuprintgroup.com.
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