Skylab Letterpress

Skylab Letterpress Let's print something that doesn't get thrown away! Based in KCMO, we are a small letterpress print The future of yesterday's technology, today!

Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Skylab Letterpress is a full-service print shop focused on the craft of letterpress printing in the modern landscape. Since 2006, we have been building relationships with our clients by offering Skylab as an incubator for their dreams, ideas, and printing needs. We have also developed close working relationships with a network of great digital and offset printing ve

ndors in the Kansas City area that gives our clients an unbeatable range of printing solutions. We love pushing the envelope of printed design possibilities. We are able to keep an antiquated printing process fresh by employing modern materials and digital solutions. Working with digital files, we create our own printing plates in-house which allows us a rapid turnaround time for projects. Need that extra special touch? We also offer edge-painting, duplexed and triplexed stock, gold foiling, die-cutting, numbering, drilling, and many other finishing techniques. The past couple of years, Skylab Letterpress has also hit the ground running with our own line of paper goods! From inspirational prints to nerdy posters, gift tags, spooky prints, greeting cards, holiday items, and so much more. We print and design everything in house, often collaborating with local artists as well, and we would love to share our paper goods with you!

Plans this weekend? It'll be cold but festive and beautiful in the Plaza!Join us at the Unity Temple on the Plaza for th...
12/10/2025

Plans this weekend? It'll be cold but festive and beautiful in the Plaza!
Join us at the Unity Temple on the Plaza for the first Handmade Holidays event!

Saturday, Dec 13 10am-7pm
Sunday, Dec 14 9:30am-2:30pm

Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 W 47th St, Kansas City, MO 64112

The Well-Appointed Desk & Skylab Letterpress are bringing all the goods including holiday-themed products like our beloved Santa Stationery kit, holiday stickers, gift tags, greeting cards and more.

We'll also have all our nerdy favorites like out D20 coasters, Gamify Zine, planner stickers, rubber stamps and more. Find the perfect gift for the nerd in your life!

Just a suggestion.
12/09/2025

Just a suggestion.

Thanks for a great year!Shop link in bio! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
11/26/2025

Thanks for a great year!
Shop link in bio!

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Our classic holiday kit, always a little crowd pleaser! Santa’s Stationery kit includes: - five (5) flat sheets of Santa...
11/24/2025

Our classic holiday kit, always a little crowd pleaser!

Santa’s Stationery kit includes:
- five (5) flat sheets of Santa’s personal letterpress printed stationery, A7 sized (5x7” flat)
- five (5) North Pole addressed envelopes with square flaps, Bar 4 sized (3.625x5.125”)
- five (5) Elf Class stamps are roughly 1” square. (Please note that these stamps are not actual USPS approved postage!)
- one (1) red hot A7 sized (5.25x7.25”) envelope

Link in bio!

Impromptu north kc lunch with some great pals, who are working on a super fun project.
11/07/2025

Impromptu north kc lunch with some great pals, who are working on a super fun project.

25ish years ago I had the good fortune to print biz cards for Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago icon who passed away last week...
10/13/2025

25ish years ago I had the good fortune to print biz cards for Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago icon who passed away last weekend.

My boss at the time had better fortune in that he did this job for trade! :)
I was just happy to meet the guy.

His intaglio work really changed the way I felt about the art form. I kinda thought it was fussy until I saw his approach. And he was a big bear of a guy.

Letterpress was a fun form for him to tryout, and we had to mix up some special black ink, as he told us he preferred a 4/c black mix. But that woulda made this card pretty expensive. We found a good mix for him. Don’t ask me, it was a quarter century ago. ;)

I’m not surprised by the outpouring of love for him this weekend. He was a local celebrity who was approachable, caring, apparently threw great open studio parties, and never stopped caring about people. His last few posts on FB are all pix of his caring nursing staff during his last few weeks. You can tell from their smiles that even on his deathbed he was able to make meaningful contact with the people around him.

RIP.



Made a few signs for someone’s bday this weekend. Forgive the kerning!
06/14/2025

Made a few signs for someone’s bday this weekend.

Forgive the kerning!

Happy bday, Heidelberg!
03/31/2025

Happy bday, Heidelberg!

Man. Psyched to participate in the  this weekend. My old stomping grounds! I learned letterpress printing 6 blocks south...
03/21/2025

Man. Psyched to participate in the this weekend. My old stomping grounds! I learned letterpress printing 6 blocks south from this event at , which was there from 1997-2011? Shout out to , , and so many others.

Now back in the hood with my wife Ana ( ) and sharing our work to the city of Chicago.

Come by booth 222 upstairs if you were lucky enough to get tickets!

Address

1968 Linn Street
North Kansas City, MO
64116

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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