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Who is Zip Printing?
We are a small family owned printing company located in St. Louis Park. People can just stop in or call for copies or a no obligation estimate M-F 8am-5:30pm.

What does Zip offer that you can’t find anywhere else?
Fast, friendly quality service with competitive pricing. At Zip Printing we believe that the relationships are what matters most. We are here to help you get the services that you need never to hard sell you to make more money.

What’s new at Zip?  What’s coming?
Not our employees! Our last employee was hired 7 years ago, our manager Dwain has been here since 1969. The rest of the employees were hired somewhere in between.

What type of community functions / activities are you involved in?
Dwain is in the Mpls Breakfast Club, the owner has served many years in the Mpls Rotary and Cori Judge is very active in the Lions Club of Mpls on Zip’s behalf. Again, we believe it’s important to build personal relationships when doing business.

Do you have any other locations or sister companies?
No, same location since 1966.

What is your specialty?
Printing on paper, bindery services and copies. If we can’t do the job for you well at a good price we can tell you who can. We’re honest. If we help people get the services they need, even if it isn’t with us, they’ll come back and do business with us later.

Business to Business relationships.
We’re developing wonderful relationships with Paper Depot, and Anchor Paper. We are mainly a business printer and can only carry a select amount of paper stock. Over the last several years have done many, many wedding, Bar and Bah Mitzvah packages and other personal printing projects. We seem to have evolved into >the< place to go for your special event printing. Customers can buy their specialty paper in 8.5 x 11 or 11x17 and we can print on it either on the copiers or the press. We can print on finished size papers too, it’s just a lot more economical to print on standard size sheets multiple up and just have them cut to size after the printing is done.

What is your main customer base?
Businesses in and around the Twin Cities area. We have had people do business from a distance to though. For instance we have one graphic designer who has done several jobs with us who works at Martha Stewart in New Jersey and another regular customer who is located in California. Many graphic designers use us for their printing on a regular basis.

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