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A Night at the Opera with Vancouver’s Still Creek Press

Founded more than 30 years ago as a business forms printer, Vancouver’s Still Creek Press has adapted and evolved over the years, adding wide-format printing capabilities and other products and services. A recent project saw the company come to the rescue when the University of British Columbia Opera decided to stage a virtual production.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The 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, 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,” said Benes. “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 sheets [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.


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About Richard Romano

Richard Romano is Managing Editor of WhatTheyThink.  He curates the Wide Format section on WhatTheyThink.com. He has been writing about the graphic communications industry for more than 25 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than half a dozen books on printing technology and business. His most recent book is “Beyond Paper: An Interactive Guide to Wide-Format and Specialty Printing.

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