Magazine & Catalog Printing in North Hollywood, CA

A show closes, another opens, and the NoHo Arts District needs a fresh stack of programs by Thursday. That rhythm shapes most of what we print for North Hollywood: program books for the small houses on Lankershim, recital booklets for dance studios off Magnolia, exhibition catalogs for the galleries in between. Angels Print sits a few minutes away in Sun Valley, close enough that a designer can drop a drive off between rehearsals and see a proof the same afternoon. We print, fold, stitch and trim in house, so a 12-page program never sits in a broker's queue for three days. Free local pickup, and free shipping once an order clears $100, which helps when the cast list changes twice before opening night.

Program books have their own rules. They are usually saddle stitched at 5.5 by 8.5 inches folded from a letter sheet, 8 to 32 pages, printed on 70# or 80# uncoated text so a reader can scribble a name in the margin under house lights. Ad pages sold to local restaurants pay for the print run, so we hold ad placement tight to the trim and check that every donor logo has enough resolution before anything goes to press. Runs of 150 to 600 cover a typical three-weekend run. Reprints between weekends are routine here: we keep the file live, so a cast change or an added sponsor costs a short reprint rather than a redesign and a new quote.

Zine printing is the other half of NoHo. Poets, comic artists and musicians bring us 16 to 48 page booklets in runs of 50 to 300, often on cream uncoated stock with a colored cover, sometimes half-letter, sometimes an odd trim we cut down ourselves. Those jobs get the same press time as anything else. Gallery work pushes the opposite direction: exhibition catalogs and lookbook printing on 100# silk text with deep black backgrounds, where a photograph of a painting has to hold shadow detail instead of filling in. If your images were shot under warm gallery lights, we flag whatever will go muddy in CMYK before it costs you a full run.

Bigger projects land here too. A theater company's season retrospective, a dance school's photo book, a restaurant group's menu magazine for the Lankershim and Magnolia corridors are all perfect-bound work: 60 pages and up, square printed spine, matte laminated cover that will not scuff in a tote bag. Magazine printing North Hollywood creatives order tends to be small-run and image-heavy, which is exactly what a digital press does well, since no plate charge means 200 copies stays affordable and every copy matches. Once a run gets large enough, offset drops the price per book substantially, and we will tell you which side of that line your project actually sits on.

Opening nights do not move. Rush book printing here means a stitched program approved by midday can be boxed the next day, and we will hold press time if you warn us the file is coming. Bring a PDF with bleed and embedded fonts, or bring the packaged InDesign job and let prepress finish it. Screen proofs are free, and we proof on paper when a cover color carries the piece. Book printing Los Angeles theaters, small presses and galleries rely on happens in our own bindery rather than a third party's. Call (818) 806-9006 with your date, page count and quantity, and we will tell you honestly whether it fits the schedule.