About Us
If you have traveled the 5 Freeway in Southern California, not far from Disneyland, you have passed us many times over the years. Yes, we are the group of buildings that have displayed the Walter Foster Art Books sign at the interchange of the Santa Ana (5) and Costa Mesa - Newport (55) Freeways. Since 1922, Walter Foster has published the widely recognized and treasured instructional art books. During those years, the presses were dedicated solely to printing the Art Books.
In 1988, seeing the growing outside need by the trade for 50" capability, we purchased the printing assets and restructured the plant to meet the needs of the expanding marketplace. Today we spend our time making great impressions for our trade customers (printers / designers / corrugators / distributors), in addition to printing those great Walter Foster Art Books. The majority of our printing for the trade is in the color packaging, P.O.P. displays, signage, and poster niches.
In July 1996, we expanded our operation to include a 64" Planeta 6 color plus coater and in 1999 to include a 40" Planeta 6 color plus coater. Both of these additions were necessities due to the demands of our trade customer base for large format, multi color printing on various substrates. This allowed us to expand our customer base in the areas of large format or multiple up color packaging, P.O.P. displays, signage, and posters. It also met the dynamics and challenges of the changing needs of our customers in these areas. In addition, we expanded our trade business to other printers for their overflow business and press downtime.
Ink on paper is our heritage, thanks to Walter Foster, we continue to build on that heritage and at the same time meet the demands of our environment. We are currently printing on a variety of substrates from 50# offset to 24 Pt. and from paper to plastics. We feature a special blend of experience and large press technology, while providing innovative solutions for even the most difficult printing jobs. We also implemented prior to outputting plates a pre-flight process which involves your customer, their designer, you and Foster Printing, which virtually eliminates surprises at press. In short, we and our suppliers care about exceeding our customers requirements and the environmental requirements of our industry.