WIDE-FORMAT & SIGNAGE ─ Still Creek Press
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STILL CREEK PRESS Founded more than 30 years ago as a business forms printer, Vancouver’s Still Creek Press has evolved over the years. By Richard Romano
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he company may be called Still Creek Press, but for the company’s 30+-year history, it has been anything but still. Based in Vancouver, B.C., Still Creek Press was founded by Len McClean to originally print business forms. Now run by his son Cameron, Still Creek Press has evolved over the decades and now offers—in addition to the original business forms—full digital printing and wide-format graphics, and even some packaging printing. “We’ve had to adapt to offer different products just to keep in line with what’s in demand,” said Eric Benes, Still Creek Press’s sales representative and cousin of Cameron McClean. “So now we still do business forms and we’ve got sheetfed capabilities, a full digital department and a wide-format department.” Still Creek Press began producing wide-format graphics about five years ago, and the company expanded its capabilities organically. “We landed a few customers, and they were all interested in various types of wide format, and we started off by just jobbing it out to other companies nearby that we had relationships with,” Benes said.
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“Once it got to a certain point where it made sense, we decided to jump in and buy some equipment and allocate some space in our building to it. And it’s been growing since.” The company has two Roland rollfed printers and a Flora flatbed. “We can run a four by eight sheet [on the Flora] and as long as the surface is flat, we can print up to four inches,” he added. A cutter that complements the Rolands and a laminator, round out Still Creek Press’s wide-format equipment roster. Still Creek Press’ customer base is a healthy mix of chains, in particular restaurants, and an array of local businesses such as dentists. “We have dental offices around us that reach out saying, ‘We need a banner for an event coming up,’ or sales reps contacting us for backdrops for Zoom meetings—that has been kind of big lately.” With Vancouver’s substantial movie and television industry, the company has started pursuing some projects with studios. “We have an ideal location,” Benes said, “just around the corner from one of the largest studios.”
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