One plant, from file to doorstep
MPress is a commercial printer running two plants, one in New Orleans and one in McKinney, Texas. Prepress, offset and digital presses, wide format, bindery, mailing and warehousing all sit under the same roof, which is the whole point.
Most print problems are handoff problems. A job that moves between a printer, a trade finisher, a lettershop and a shipper collects a delay and a colour shift at every boundary, and when the date slips nobody owns it. Running the whole chain in one building removes those seams and leaves one number to call.
How we print
Offset
Plates and ink. A real setup cost, then a very low cost per piece, so it wins on long runs of identical pieces and holds colour tightly across them. We manufacture ink in house, so brand colours are mixed to match rather than approximated. See lithographic offset printing.
Digital
No plates, so almost no setup, which makes short runs affordable and reprints cheap. It is also the only way to change content between one sheet and the next. See digital printing and variable data printing, or read offset vs digital printing to work out which your job needs.
Wide format
Banners, yard signs, trade show graphics and window or wall displays, printed on roll and flatbed equipment with substrates chosen for where the piece will live. See wide format printing.
What happens either side of the press
Prepress is where colour is profiled and files are made production-ready. We hold to G7 and GRACoL colour standards, which is what makes an approved proof match the press sheet and a reprint match the original.
Bindery and finishing is everything after: cutting, folding, scoring, binding, foil, embossing and die cutting, all in house rather than trucked to a trade finisher and back.
Then the job either ships or mails. Delivery and shipping covers free local and regional delivery plus national freight and split shipments. Direct mail and every door direct mail cover addressing, presort and the postal drop. If the run is released over months rather than at once, fulfillment and warehousing holds it.
What we make
- Custom packaging and folding cartons, including food-safe work
- Catalogues, booklets, annual reports and marketing collateral
- Envelopes, letterhead, forms and business stationery
- Convention and event graphics plus delegate material
- Point of purchase displays, tags, tickets and numbered pieces
- Full product range on the products page