Hi, I'm Letterpress Jess!
Letterpress Jess is a letterpress printing studio and workshop located inside Print & Press Shop & Studios in the downtown Canton Arts District.Owned by Jess & Doug Bennett, the company creates luxury letterpress stationery, art prints and posters, wedding and event invitations, gifts and more. Letterpress Jess can also print custom letterpress printing jobs, with your design or theirs!
The couple also owns Jab Advertising, a small ad agency in downtown Canton that specializes in small business marketing.
Love at First Press | 2013-14
We pulled our first prints—thanks to instructive workshops at Zygote Press and the Morgan Conservatory of Paper—in the late summer / early fall of 2013. It was about that time that we first met Big Sal. Salvadora “Big Sal” Clanky—a mid-century 12×18 Chandler & Price printing press manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio, is our very first and best partner in crime and she handles most of our jobs.
Sal was waiting for us in a basement along Main Street in North Canton. Sal was a gift from Mr. Jim Dansizen, owner of Dansizen Printing and publisher of Our Town North Canton, before he passed away in 2017. We will always be eternally grateful to Jim for giving Letterpress Jess her first press and for taking care of Sal so well for so many years!
We brought Sal to her first home inside the Hub Art Factory & Studios just days after Christmas 2013. After her trip to the spa—bathing in everything from engine degreaser to at vinegar and lemon juice mixture, along with some cosmetic TLC—the team was ready to get printing and made its public debut at the Canton First Friday in April 2014.
We attended our first major holiday markets, took on our very first custom clients and printed our first wedding invitation that same year.
2015-16
2017-2018
2019-PRESENT
In 2019, we took our biggest leap yet and debuted our line at the National Stationery Show with our good friends at Oddball Press and have expanded our wholesale business to 45 states/territories. We are looking forward to returning to NSS in 2023 for our 4th time.
