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December 17, 2017

The Best Art Books of 2017

Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush and the Laura Owens Catalogue were both featured in the New York Times’ list of the 20 best art books of the year.

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November 30, 2017

Laura Owens Exhibition Catalog

For the Whitney’s Laura Owens exhibition, we produced 8,000 664-page catalogs – each with a unique cover hand–screen printed in the artist’s Los Angeles studio. Read more about the artist and book in The New Yorker.

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May 30, 2017

Sample room

We have so many nice book projects, we’re renovating a third room for samples!

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April 14, 2017

Water Is Life poster

We were honored to be selected by Oregonian photographer John Chao to print his Water Is Life poster. John spent many days at Standing Rock Indian Reservation documenting protesters standing in solidarity to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Two versions were printed using 100% recycled paper on our new Komori press; for more photos see keeplifepure.

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April 10, 2017

2017 PINE print awards

We’re excited to have won seven “Pinnacle” awards in last week’s Printing Industries of New England (PINE) yearly event. The categories and projects are:

Hardcover books: “Helena Blues”
Art books: “A Golden Age of European Art”
Booklets: “Pierpont Morgan’s Study”
Calendars: “Convent of the Sacred Heart”
4-color product catalogs: “Malabrigo Aniversario Book 11”
4-color service catalogs: “Lesley MFA Programs”
Digital Printing: “Food + Future Commons Brand Guide”

We also received eight Awards of Recognition and two Awards of Merit.

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March 31, 2017

Unboxing the new Indigo

Installation for our new Indigo 7900 is in progress. The new press has a spectrophotometer for improved color consistency; “One-Shot” which improves registration on synthetic papers; and a primer station to help with ink adhesion on papers that are not Indigo-certified.

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