Our mission & Guiding Principles

Our mission: to print beautifully; use the best materials; and support and inspire the letterpress community.

We began out of a passion for letterpress printing. Our actions at Boxcar Press reflect a care for our craft, our community, and our planet.

We care for our craft:

• Letterpress is beautiful in every respect, from the machining of the presses down to the impression into paper. We respect our place in the lineage of printers dating back to Gutenberg, and we will honor letterpress's heritage in our actions.
• We will position letterpress as the high-quality and high-service alternative for commercial printing.
• The future of letterpress lies in the marriage of technology to the craft tradition. We will develop new technologies to keep letterpress commercially viable. 
• We will push letterpress's possibilities.

We care for our community:

• We will play a vital role for the letterpress community that we serve: that which is good for letterpress is good for Boxcar Press.
• Letterpress brings joy and beauty into the world. We will encourage the world at large to love letterpress.
• Central New York has treated us well. We will be an active, supportive, and positive force in our local community.

We care for our planet:

• We will be a model for sustainable printing by caring for the environment and by lessening our impact on the Earth.