Our history

Inland Press began as the print shop in the basement the Detroit Legal News back in 1895 printing newspapers, business cards, letterhead and other items requested by the legal community in Detroit. As Detroit grew, so did the work and equipment at Inland Press. Inland has always invested in new printing technology. We were one of the first shops in the region to transition from letterpress to offset printing. We moved from hot metal to computerized phototypesetting early on. In 1985, we installed the first Postscript-only Linotype L300 film imagesetters in the U.S. This constant move forward has required us to train and keep our staff up to date on the latest technology. The recent installation of our RMGT 970 UV-LED 8-color perfecting press is further proof of this. We now operate out of a 65,000 sq. ft. facility still in downtown Detroit. Our most recent initiatives have focused on enhancing efficiency and sustainability throughout our entire production process.

Inland Press is still a division of The Detroit Legal News Company; information about the corporation can be found at DLNCO.COM. While a public corporation, the Company has been managed and run by the Thompson family for now five generations. We’re proud to have the sixth generation of the family working at the Company.

Stewardship

Service, integrity, and community partnership are the guiding principles for Inland Press and reinforce the importance of and our dedication to sustainability and environmental awareness. We adopt a big-picture view of our sustainability efforts, following the axiom “think globally, act locally.” We are FSC certified.

Furthering our commitment to sustainability, we have replaced all of our lighting fixtures, drastically reducing our energy consumption while supporting the local economy using Michigan-made replacement components. We’ve made great strides in our ongoing effort to make all aspects of our printing process more eco-friendly. Our RMGT eight color press is UV-LED, which uses much less power, and those inks contain no VOC’s. We use soy-based inks elsewhere, have digitized our proofing processes, recycle all paper and printing plates, and utilize no chemistry in our plate processing. We replaced the roof with insulated white panels to be much more energy efficient.

“To have our competitors and customers vote us the best means a lot.
This wasn’t a panel of judges, but colleagues who know us and our work well.”

– Brad Thompson,
President, Inland Press