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A freshly printed color sheet of ceramics and woodblock prints at the delivery end of a Heidelberg press

The Mid-Atlantic’s Premier Quality Printer

Since 1937 we have printed the books, catalogs and magazines that the Mid-Atlantic’s museums, universities and hospitals put their names on.

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Exhibition publications printed for The Walters Art Museum
ONE magazine, printed for Johns Hopkins

Our work

With every job,we print your colors, paper and finishthe way you pictured them.

Printing has changed a great deal since 1937, and so have we. Our founding strengths have not: a mastery of the technology and a sincere desire to please each customer. Our founder, E. John Schmitz, kept his sales strategy to four words: “Treat the customer right.”

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Printed sheets running through a Heidelberg press

Pressroom

Six Colors and a Protective Coating in One Pass

Our pressroom is all Heidelberg: two 40-inch, six-color Speedmaster 102 presses. One is a perfector, so it can print both sides of the sheet in one trip through the press.

A clear, water-based coating goes on as each sheet comes off the press. It guards the ink against scuffs and gets your job to the bindery sooner.

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From file to finished book

The finished case-bound art book

  1. Prepress

    G7 Master color and proofs you approve first.

  2. Pressroom

    Six-color Heidelbergs with an in-line coater.

  3. Bindery

    Folding, stitching, die-cutting and Wire‑O.

Finished, bound pieces coming off the line in the Schmitz bindery

Under one roof

Folded, Bound, Addressedand Mailed WithoutLeaving the Building

After the press, your job stays with the same people. The bindery finishes it, the digital presses take the short runs and personal pieces, and the mailing line gets it to the post office.

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A Stahl folder running printed signatures

Bindery

Folding, including gatefolds, saddle stitching, die-cutting, pocket folders, Wire-O and trimming.

Muller-Martini six-station stitcher, Stahl folders, KAMA die-cutter, Moll pocket-folder gluer, Polar cutters, shrink wrap.

A Konica Minolta AccurioPress digital press

Digital printing

Short runs and personalized pieces, where each copy can carry its own name or version.

Konica Minolta AccurioPress C6100 (two), C3070 and 6120.

The Bell and Howell inserting line in the mailing department

Mailing

Inserting, inkjet addressing, tabbing and matching each piece to the right envelope.

Bell & Howell Mailstar inserters, MCS inkjet addressing, Kirk-Rudy tabbers, Perfect Match read-and-print.

Clients

Trusted by the Smithsonian,the National Gallery of Artand Universities Across the Region

Of all our awards, the one we are proudest of can’t hang on a wall: the loyalty of our customers.

We print for museums, universities, hospitals and companies, from the Walters and Johns Hopkins to the Baltimore Ravens and McCormick.

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Awards

Best of Show at the PGAMAQuality Awards, Two Years Running

At the 2019 show our work took a second Grand Q in a row, two special awards, seven Best of Category and 27 Awards of Merit.

We are Sappi North American Printers of the Year and a G7 Master Qualified printer.

PGAMA Grand Q award statueSappi North American Printers of the YearG7 Master, qualified by IDEAlliance
  • Fringe, a black case-bound photography book in its blue-lined box

    Fringe

    Paula Gately Tillman

    Grand Q, Best of Show / 2019

  • Cover of Ceylove by Jessica Heath

    Ceylove

    Jessica Heath

    Best Use of Color / 2019

  • Cover of BmoreArt, a journal of art and ideas

    BmoreArt

    Art reproductions

    Best of Category / 2019

  • We Are Ghosts booklet for the Baltimore Museum of Art

    We Are Ghosts

    Baltimore Museum of Art

    Best of Category / 2019

  • Maryland My Maryland, printed for the University of Maryland

    Maryland My Maryland

    University of Maryland

    Client work

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Visit Us in Sparks, Maryland

We are just north of Hunt Valley, in the middle of horse country: thirty minutes from downtown Baltimore and forty from York, Pennsylvania. Our customers love visiting us, and we love having them.

37 Loveton Circle, Sparks, Maryland 21152
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The SCHMITZ letters on the stone wall of the lobby in Sparks