The Printing Press was incorporated in April of 1978. George and Mary (Pritzi) Klear purchased the business from The Enterprise where George was the General Manager for many years. We operated from that location until moving into our present location, on Courthouse Drive in Leonardtown, on April 1st of 1979. Our Print Shop was constructed by family and friends over the course of a year. George died suddenly in 2004. Pritzi, his son Kerry, and wife, Jill, took over the operation and have strived to continue the quality product, personal service and community support that George was so well known for.

The business started out with the machinery that came with the initial purchase which included a 22” Heidelberg offset press, two Multilith 1250 offset presses, a folder, cutter and various other miscellaneous equipment. We purchased all new pre-press equipment. Including our family members, we have averaged 10 full time and several part time employees.

Over the past 30 years, we have replaced all of the original machinery at least once each, most twice. Our current presses are two 20” Heidelberg GTO 52s. One is a single color and the other a two color perfector. We also have a Ryobi 3200 two color for producing our smaller size jobs. In the pre-press department, we are PC based and produce most of our work using Microsoft and Adobe software, although we can work with most any software. In the post press area we offer many options, to include creasing, scoring, perforating, die cutting, numbering, padding, heavy duty stapling, envelope inserting, laminating and more.

We offer several bindery solutions to include Perfect Binding, Saddle Stitch, GBC Binding, Coil Binding, and Hard Back cover binding. All binding is done in house, no third party.

We have just added a new Single Sided Laminator that adds a high gloss protective finish.

Our operation is set up to provide a quick turn around on most work, especially newsletters and time critical items such as funeral programs, manuals and briefs.

We offer wedding announcements and invitations in house and through several vendors. We have been recognized by Carlson Craft as a Distinguished Dealer each year since 1992.

Since the start of our business, we have provided many of our services and products to community organizations and non-profit groups at a reduced cost to help with their fund raising and community assistance efforts. We support many of the County Fire and EMS departments, Special Olympics, Rotary Clubs, Optimist Clubs, private fund raising events, and other community service agencies with donations of materials and services.