We are a small print and direct mail studio just off Nameoki Road. We design, print, hand-finish, and mail postcards, newsletters, and appeal letters for businesses and nonprofits across the Metro East.
In an inbox of two hundred unread emails, a well-printed envelope on the kitchen counter still gets opened. We have spent the last fourteen years learning how to make those envelopes — the paper, the timing, the addressing, the words on the outside — work for the people who send them.
One owner, six employees, no holding company. Decisions are made by the people who run the machines.
Two Heidelberg offset presses and a Xerox Iridesse digital. We do not outsource your job to another state.
Full-service Intelligent Mail Barcode, NCOA Move Update, and CASS-certified addressing on every list.
Quotes itemise paper, ink, postage, and labour separately. No mystery line items, no surprise invoices.
Roughly eighty percent of our clients are based within fifty miles of Granite City. We answer the phone ourselves.
Many of our first clients from 2012 are still here. We would rather earn a tenth campaign than chase a first one.
Claude Lambert started Granite Quill in the back of his father's print shop on Niedringhaus Avenue with one secondhand digital press and a folding table. The first job was a thousand postcards for a barbecue place that needed customers on a quiet Tuesday. They sold out by Thursday.
Fourteen years later we are still doing roughly the same thing — printing, folding, addressing, and mailing — just for a few hundred more clients, from a small brick building on Butternut Lane where the coffee is always on and the loading dock faces east toward the river.
Read more about usSaturation routes, every door direct, retail open-house cards, restaurant menus. Designed in-house or printed from your files.
Learn more →Donor appeals, member renewals, quarterly newsletters, statements. Personalised, folded, inserted, sealed, mailed.
Learn more →Mailing list rental, address cleanup, NCOA move updates, presort optimisation to keep postage as low as honestly possible.
Learn more →No forms to fill out unless you want to. You can also just call the shop and Claude or Mara will pick up.