Books and photobooks
Casebound hardcovers, softcovers, lay-flat photobooks, PUR and perfect bound books, saddle-stitched booklets — storybooks, yearbooks, journals, novels, magazines and catalogues.
About iPress Printing
Printing in Melbourne since 2010. We manufacture personalised products one order at a time and ship them, unbranded, straight to our partners' customers.
The factory
behind
your brand.
Our story
One factory.
Orders of one.
We have been printing in Melbourne since 2010. Everything we make is made here, in one facility in Reservoir — presses, bindery, wide format, photo lab, engraving and embroidery all under the same roof, with the people who run them a few steps from each other.
What makes us unusual is not the machines. It is that a job of one costs us no more trouble than a job of a thousand. Traditional printing is built around long runs of identical things: set up once, run it, box it, store it. Personalised products break that completely. Every book has a different child’s name in it, every canvas a different photo, every order a different address.
So we rebuilt the way work moves through the building. Orders arrive from our customers’ websites and apps through our API and are checked, priced, imposed and routed to the right machine automatically. No one retypes an address. No one opens a file to work out what it is. The first time a person touches an order is when they take it off the press.
That is what lets a brand with ten orders a week and a platform with ten thousand use the same factory, the same prices and the same three-to-five day turnaround — and lets us ship every one of those parcels blind, so the customer only ever sees our customer’s brand.
2010
Printing in Melbourne since
ONE
Minimum order quantity
3–5
Business days in production
80%
Solar-powered production
What we make
Five kinds of work, one building
Most partners start with one product and add more once the integration is running. Because it is all made in the same place, a customer order can mix a book, a print and an engraved gift and still ship as one parcel.
Photo and personalised gifts
Photo prints, calendars, cards, panels, mugs, puzzles and ornaments. The things people order one of, with someone they love on the front.
Flat sheet and stationery
Business cards, flyers, brochures, greeting cards, notecards, invitations, flashcards and presentation folders, on house stocks or the premium textured papers.
Wide format and signage
Posters, banners, stretched canvas, wall decals, window graphics, pull-up banners and exhibition displays.
Specialty production
Laser engraving and cutting, UV flatbed printing on rigid substrates, acrylic and timber, and machine embroidery on apparel and textiles.
Packing and fulfilment
Kitting, collation into sets, boxed packs, branded inserts, warehousing of your standard stock, and blind shipping worldwide with tracking returned to your system.
How work reaches us
Three ways in
However the order arrives, it lands in the same automated workflow.
Our Print API
Your platform posts the order and links to the print-ready files. Sandbox credentials, public documentation, live pricing and a request log you can debug against.
HP SiteFlow or Printbox
Already running one of these platforms? We connect to them directly, so you keep the workflow your team knows.
A quoted job
Launch runs, boxed sets, samples and one-off projects. Send the specification and artwork and we will quote it, print it and have it ready for delivery or pickup.
Inside the building
HP Indigo 7900, Xerox Iridesse and Konica Minolta digital presses for print quality that holds across a run of one or ten thousand. A Fujifilm mini lab for photographic prints. Canon, HP Latex and Roland wide format machines, Roland sublimation and UV flatbed, laser engravers and embroidery heads. Behind them, a full bindery: casemakers for hardcovers, perfect and PUR binding, saddle stitching, laminating, creasing, guillotines and mounting — which is why our books are finished here rather than sent out and waited on.
How we keep it right
Automation does the repetition. People do the judgement.
Software is better than a person at checking a file, pricing a job and routing it to the right machine at 3am. People are better at looking at a printed sheet and knowing something is off.
Files checked before they print
Every file is validated for format, size and production readiness as it arrives, so problems surface while there is still time to fix them rather than after the paper is cut.
Colour that holds
Calibrated presses and controlled paper stocks mean the copy printed in December matches the one printed in March — which matters when a customer orders volume two of a set.
Checked on the floor, and again at packing
Print, binding and finishing are inspected during production, and every order is checked once more as it is packed.
If we get it wrong, we reprint it
Send a photo. If the fault is ours, we remake it and reship at our cost — no argument, no restocking games.
Made to order
The greenest print run is the one nobody threw away
Print on demand is not a sustainability slogan for us, it is the business model: nothing is made until someone has bought it.
No overstock, no landfill
Nothing is printed speculatively, so there is no surplus stock to discount, warehouse or destroy at the end of a season.
80% solar powered
Most of the power that runs our presses comes off our own roof.
FSC and recycled stocks
We buy from suppliers offering Forest Stewardship Council certified and recycled papers, and can match a partner to the stock their brand needs.
No plates, no chemistry
Digital production means no printing plates and no chemical set-up waste before the first good copy.
Fewer reprints
Automated file checks catch problems before they are printed, which is the cheapest and cleanest way to save paper.
Fewer parcels
Items from one customer order are produced together and packed together wherever we can, rather than shipped separately.
Who we make for
The brands behind the orders
We are a manufacturer, not a retail brand. Our name is not on the parcel, and most people who own something we made have never heard of us.
Photobook and photo-gift brands
Consumer brands whose customers design a product online and expect it on the doorstep in days, in Australia and overseas.
Apps and subscription products
Businesses turning phone photos into books month after month, where the whole product depends on the printing simply happening.
Print-on-demand platforms
International POD and marketplace platforms that need an Australian manufacturer so local orders are not flown across the world.
Publishers, authors and educators
Short-run and one-copy book production, personalised storybooks, card decks and classroom resources.
Photographers and studios
Albums and prints for client work, produced unbranded so the studio’s name is the only one on the box.
Marketing and franchise platforms
Systems where each store, agent or franchisee orders their own version of a campaign and it prints without anyone in head office touching it.
Come and see
You are welcome
in the building.
Most of our customers have stood on the factory floor and watched their product being made. If you are in Melbourne, or ever passing through, tell us and we will show you the presses, the bindery and what happens to an order between your website and your customer’s front door.
43 Lakeside Avenue, Reservoir, Victoria. We are also happy to start with a call — we work with partners in the UK, US and New Zealand as well as Australia.
What we are good at
- Making one of something, well. Quantity one is our normal run length, not an exception we tolerate.
- Books, in every binding. Casebound hardcovers, lay-flat, PUR, perfect bound and saddle-stitched, made in our own bindery.
- Taking work off your hands. Printing, finishing, packing, blind shipping and tracking, so you can sell the product without owning a factory.
- Being easy to build against. Public API documentation, a sandbox, live pricing and an order log you can debug against at 2am.
- Answering the phone. A named contact in Melbourne who knows your products, not a ticket queue.
Let's Get
Started
Let's talk about your project. Reach out by phone or complete the form below to discuss your custom production and print-on-demand fulfilment needs.
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- •Get back to you within 24 hours
- •Provide detailed quote and timeline
- •Start your print-on-demand journey