Commercial Printing
Offset, digital and letterpress printing, produced and managed in-house on our own nine presses instead of being brokered out.
Sierra has 45 years of commercial printing experience. Our ability to print and manage any job in-house is what separates us. Nothing gets handed to a third party and quietly marked up.
Traditional craft and the latest technology under one roof means we can take on whatever you bring us: short run or long, simple or complex.
We also build web-to-print storefronts. Our in-house design and development team can put together a complete online store for your brand, housing your printed and collateral material so staff or locations can order approved items themselves.
What that includes
- Offset and digital
- Business cards & stationery
- Booklets & brochures
- Business forms
- Carbonless forms
- Catalogs
- Presentation folders
- Envelopes
- Large runs
- Packaging & die-cut pieces
- Web-to-print storefronts
- In-house design team
Printed for our customers
A few of the brochures, kits and packaging we’ve printed.
Brochures · Eskaton 
Foil-stamped cover · Versante at Somersett 
Die-cut piece · Nikka Whisky 
Spiral-bound sales kit · Dandy 
Camp brochure · Girl Scouts Heart of Central California 
Packaging · handmade toffee 
Presentation folder · Standard Pacific Homes 
Brochure · Sunsweet Ingredients 
Brochure · Martin Crest
What lithographic printing is — and when it beats digital
Lithographic printing — offset — transfers ink from a plate onto a rubber blanket, and from that blanket onto the sheet. Making plates costs something before the press even runs, which is why a short run is usually cheaper digitally.
Past a few thousand pieces that setup disappears into the run and the price per piece keeps falling. Offset also buys things digital can’t: color that holds from the first sheet to the last, a far wider range of stock and finishes, and sheets large enough to gang several pieces onto one pass.
Ask which suits your job
Offset lithographic presses
Five units means a fifth color — a spot, a specified brand color, or a coating — goes down in the same pass as the four process colors, instead of running the sheet through twice.
The large-format workhorse. A 40-inch sheet carries far more up per pass, which is what makes long runs and larger flat sizes economical.
Also on the floor
- Perfecting — both sides in one pass
- Inline aqueous coating
- Letterpress, scoring and die-cutting
- Dedicated envelope press
- Two-color and small-format presses for short runs
- In-house bindery
Nine presses in all, with offset sheet sizes from 14 × 20 up to 28 × 40 inches in up to five colors. The range is the point: a job needing a die-cut, a coating and an awkward stock doesn’t have to leave the building to get them.
One account covers the rest of it too
Most customers start with one service and consolidate the others once they see it handled properly.
Talk to us about commercial printing
Tell us what you need and someone from the nearest branch will come back with pricing and a realistic timeline.