Commercial Printing Services

At Locust Street Press, we understand that nothing — nothing — compares to the unique beauty of handmade printed stationery. Bring your creativity to our time-honored wholesale letterpress printing shop and find out how we can bring your dearest artistic dreams to life.

We Are Trade Printers at Heart

Locust Street Press commercial letterpress printing services provide distinctive and unique stationery by blending expert modern technique with time-honored, quality vintage equipment. This marriage creates the finest handcrafted commercial printing products available in Illinois — not to toot our own horn!

Quite simply, at Locust Street Press, we love the art world. We love working with exacting graphic designers and other ridiculously creative folks who cannot find the quality they need anywhere else. We believe our handmade stationery is the finest wholesale letterpress printing available. And we love nothing better than the creative collaborative process that brings your ideas to our vintage, working museum shop.

The Artist Behind the Artist

Our workshop began in the late 1960s with the dreams and ability of one young man. Today, those dreams and ability have translated into a vintage-inspired passion, wrought by one woman who wishes to foster beauty through the unique beauty of print.

What started with one typesetter has grown into a 20-machine full-service commercial letterpress printer. The Locust Street Press specializes in creating the must-be-touched-to-be-appreciated, entirely handmade, crafted-with-love stationery products perfect for business and personal use.

Our Portfolio and Blog

Do not just take our word for it. Read our blog and view our online portfolio to see for yourself the diverse range of custom printed products we’ve produced for our incredibly discerning customers. Discover what using a vintage drill press can do for your final product. See our wedding invitation suite. Examine the texture of our foldable business cards and gold foil stamps. In short, if you can imagine it, we can bring it to life, unlike any other commercial trade printer working today.

And Everything In-Between

At Locust Street Press, we believe only expert technique and vintage and antique presses can produce the results that discriminating customers desire. Our custom cut dies, embossers and debossers, foil stamps and letterpress prints produce modern style — but with old-fashioned quality. Don’t see what you need here? No problem. Locust Street Press loves to create everything in-between.

Have a special need and think it cannot be done? Contact us today. Locust Street Press specializes in crafting unusual printing requests with care, dedication and — yes — love.