Joel Benson's Contact Details

Joel Benson's Company Details

Dependable Letterpress

San Francisco, California, United States • 2 Employees
Printing

Dependable Letterpress creates quality fine printing & custom work with our vintage presses and attentive craftsmanship. Our craftspeople skillfully bring your project to life with a thoughtful approach and passion for paper. We love creating designs completely from scratch starting with a concept or printing from your press-ready files. We also love collaborating with clients to put their imagination to paper. Our doors in San Francisco's Dogpatch are open for personalized and professional consultations to make your next project flawless. Business cards, invitations, stationery, art, wine labels, books, or whatever your one-of-a-kind project, Dependable Letterpress will make it shine. Since 2002, we have worked with a growing host of the best letterpress print designers in San Francisco and beyond.Visit our shop in the Dogpatch to see our process first-hand. If you're not in the Bay Area, we're happy to correspond from afar.Joel discovered the satisfaction of putting ink to paper in 1987 at a book arts class at UC Santa Cruz, and felt he'd finally found his calling. An apprenticeship with the Yolla Bolly Press followed, and later a job with Julie Holcomb Printers in San Francisco, introduced him to Heidelberg presses and the practice of production printing.Joel Benson started Dependable Letterpress in 2002 in his basement in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2004, the shop graduated to a workspace in the Dogpatch on the Bay side of Potrero Hill. These days, we are still happy at home in the Dogpatch filling a much larger space. Contact us early in the process of developing your project. We are happy to provide quotes for printing costs based on a preliminary design, and to collaborate with you during all phases of the design process to ensure a product we can all be proud of. We also offer in-house custom design.joel@dependableletterpress.com