09/03/2025
This summer Zancan Press celebrated our 25th Anniversary! We've come a long way from where we began, with one desk in Ray Zancan's home.
When the company that Ray previously worked for closed its doors, their customers, unsure where to go next, started calling him at home. He gave them some recommendations, but they'd worked with him for a long time, had come to trust him, so each had about the same response: "How about you just order it for me?"
And so Zancan Press came to be, at first placing orders at various printing companies on his customers' behalf, then making enough money to buy a one-color press, and then a copy machine.
When the home business started to make its way into the garage and then the hallway of their house, Ray and Nickie took the business to a new site, a small three-room space at Tri-State Marine in Deale, MD.
Things progressed faster than they could've expected, and within just a few years those three rooms were packed to the brim. Two employees became seven, desks were fitted into the storage room, and at one point, furniture needed to be moved every time someone had to use the microwave.
It was time to expand again.
In 2007, Zancan Press moved to our current location in the Trade Zone industrial park in Upper Marlboro, MD, where we now have three separate locations, and have expanded our services far beyond ink-on-paper printing. These three locations cover printing, mailing, specialty graphics, promotional items, apparel, warehousing and fulfillment, framing, engraving, and design services, and we're always adding more and listening to what our customer's are looking for.
A refrain we find ourselves saying often, is even if you don't think we do it, you should probably ask anyway because that's how we know what you need! We decided to add mail services when a customer asked if we could mail a postcard after we printed it. We decided to add signage when a customer asked if we could print some posters for a new location we were already printing the stationery for. If you need something, we want you to be able to depend on us, and that dependability has served us for 25 years.
Thank you to all of our customers and friends who have carried us this far, and we look forward to many more years to come!
