Minuteman Press

I had an amazing experience with Mike. I printed the escort cards for my wedding at a different print shop. They made many mistakes. With my wedding being a week away I wanted to get this done. This shop came highly recommended from a friend. I put my order in and Mike emailed me immediately. When I needed to make some changes he was very accommodating and even let me use his computer so I could upload the new escort cards. Very affordable too. I would recommend this print shop to anyone!

Been doing business with Mike over 5 years. They are reasonably priced and very responsive. I highly recommend them. Thanks, Mike!

I got married a month or so ago and didn’t anticipate how complicated it would be to print menus, programs and place cards. I had a HORRIBLE experience at Staples, where the customer service people were rude, didn’t have the paper they advertised and said that the proofs didn’t match up and that it would be over $ 200. My wedding wasn’t that big!
Some family friends told me to try Minuteman Press. I went into Mike’s store, fairly frantic, and he was very calm. He told me that he could have the printing done later that afternoon. We printed out copies of everything so that I could see them and hold the paper, which was awesome, and he had them printed perfectly and packaged in shrink wrap exactly when he said he would! No problems with the proof whatsoever.
I would definitely recommend Mike for anyone else needing wedding printing! Not sure about the reviews below… perhaps going in and seeing the proof before ordering is a good idea.

I don’t write reviews often but feel compelled to warn others about the experience that I had with Mike at Minuteman Press. Last year, I submitted a basic double-​sided, color business card order online. I reviewed the online proof and all looked good. The cards were printed promptly. When I went in to pick up the cards, I found that the colors were completely wrong (i.e. lime green was a Christmas evergreen and pink was a dark red). I pointed out the issue and Mike said that it was probably just due to the difference in color seen on a computer screen versus in print… I work with a graphic designer and print things often for my small business, and this wasn’t consistent with every other experience I’ve had in the past. I might have accepted it if the colors were slightly off but they were SO grossly different than the colors on the file that this just didn’t explain it. I called me graphic designer and got the style sheet for the cards and compared with what Mike had –he said they were the same and this is just how they printed. He didn’t offer to try to help figure out what went wrong, didn’t offer to try to re-​print a few to figure this out. Just told me that it was a matter of what I was seeing on the computer being different than print. So, I told him that I wasn’t going to pay for these –the quality wasn’t acceptable– and I left.
A year later, I started receiving bills for the business cards from Mike. I sent an email reminding him about our interaction and that’s when the barrage of hateful emails from him started. He claimed that I never talked to him, never came to the store, that I was «crazy» and the reason why local businesses fail. Here are a few of the things that I received via email from him:
«I hate people like you that have work done and end up having us eat it … You put people like me our of business for just doing our job»
«You didn’t talk to me and those cards sat there for months… Whatever lady … Let’s screw the local vender … Where did you go … Staples?»
I have no idea what planet this guy is living on but clearly one where he is not running a business and is the victim. Not a good experience, highly unprofessional, and I would recommend that anyone looking for print work be wary.

Having previous positive business transactions with Minuteman Press (MP), I anticipated another positive experience with my most recent order. Such was not the case. I dropped off a sheet of ruled paper and asked the owner if he could replicate it, both in an 8.5×11 size and half size. He said sure. Here is our email dialogue:
MP: «let me know if these are ok»
Customer: «…on the large pad the spacing between the lines is not the same as what I gave you. Please note … If you place a proof and the original side by side, you can see the proof’s lines are closer together. Also, could you make both the gray guidelines and the darker lines slightly thinner, again, just like the original.
As for the small pad, I would like the same line spacing and thickness on the small pad as on the large.» (MP simply reduced the large pad, placing the lines closer together, and used this as the model for the small pad. Also, I used various «please» and «thank yous» in my correspondence, not included here)
MP: Sent a .pdf, no words in the email
Customer: «The line thickness is fine, but the spacing does not match the original. Please space the light lines 3 mm above the dark lines and separate the dark lines by 7 mm, which is what the original has for spacing.»
MP: Sorry if I knew your tolerances were so tight for some ruled paper… I would never have taken it on… This is the United States we don’t work in milimeters. I can’t help you with this if a half a mm is unacceptable … I’ve already spent way too much time on this
Customer: Sorry, Michael. I assumed you would replicate the sheet I gave you and that it would be a pretty easy job. I can give you the dimensions in inches or points if that would help.
No further communication from MP after this.
– this is frustrating. I dropped off the original and asked him to replicate it. That seemed pretty clear. I also let him know we had worked with him in the past, work that presumably helped his business. Politely and professionally I asked him to simply replicate what I dropped off. He’s not the only one who spent some time on this project. Surely printers have rulers and should pay attention to details. He did not give this customer much satisfaction and will certainly not see me, my family, or my business again.

Mike was amazingly helpful with printing all the invitations, programs, and menu cards for my wedding last year. He was quick to respond, and got us everything in plenty of time. And everything was so much more reasonably priced then anywhere else I’d checked. I’d recommend him to anyone.

Great service, great prices, great turnaround and delivery. What more can you ask for? Get a quote from Teddy and you’ll find you have a new printer. They can also provide promotional items, holiday cards, branded clothing and more.