Full-service union printing with same-day turnaround. Business cards through trade-show backdrops. No order minimums, no kitchen-sink price sheet, no lead-time gymnastics. Run by an operator who's printed for live shows, restaurants, and retail since 2009.
Lean Print Shop is the Mixmastered group's print channel — a Chicago-area union print shop built to do exactly what most local printers won't: turn a job around the same day, take orders without a minimum quantity, and ship retail-grade printing whether you need 25 cards or 25,000.
We run business cards, postcards, flyers, brochures, letterhead, presentation folders, and direct-mail. We run large-format for trade shows, retail signage, real-estate signs, banners, posters, and step-and-repeat backdrops. We run on-demand for restaurants (menus, table tents, catering inserts) and for events (programs, badges, lanyards, merch).
Every job is union-shop work — printers paid a real wage on real equipment. The pricing reflects that. So does the consistency. If you've been burned by a same-day print job that came back the wrong color, the wrong size, or both, you know what we're solving for.
Same-day means same-day. Drop a file before noon CT, your order is ready by close. No-minimum means we'll print one card if that's what you need (and we'll still talk to you on the phone). The order page lives at leanprintshop.com; the contact form on this page routes here too.
Files in by noon CT, ready by close. We don't queue your job behind a 5,000-piece run.
Order 1 or 50,000. Same shop, same equipment, same day.
Real printers, real wages, real consistency. The price reflects what it actually takes to print well.
Menu changes daily? Catering insert needs to ship tomorrow? We've done it for Terrace Cantina and others.
Backdrops, banners, retractables, swag inserts. Designed and printed by the same operator for the same booth.
You talk to a person who runs the press. Not a portal, not a sales rep, not a queue.
Files received and approved before noon CT are printed and ready for pickup or shipped the same business day. Cards, flyers, postcards, and standard sizes are routine same-day. Large-format and specialty stocks get scheduled — we tell you up front what's same-day and what isn't.
Yes. We'll print one business card or one banner if that's what you need. Most small shops won't take orders under a couple hundred pieces; we will. Per-piece price obviously moves with quantity but the door is open.
We're a Chicago-area union print shop. Local pickup is available; we ship same-day for orders that need to leave town. Contact via leanprintshop.com or the contact form at mixmastered.com/#contact.
Yes. We run banners, retractables, step-and-repeat backdrops, retail signage, and window graphics. Trade-show clients usually order signage, badges, lanyards, and printed inserts as one combined job — we coordinate the whole thing instead of fragmenting across vendors.
Yes. Union staff and union equipment standards. It matters because consistency requires people who know what they're doing — print quality, color matching, and on-time delivery come from a shop that pays its operators properly. Our pricing reflects that.
Yes — we're the printer behind BlueBird Yard Signs, the real-estate signage operation in the Mixmastered group. Same-day signs, listing updates, and route delivery for working agents.
Three options: (1) order directly at leanprintshop.com, (2) use the contact form at mixmastered.com/#contact and pick "Lean Print Shop" as the inquiry type, or (3) email files to dan.morrell@mixmastered.com.
Need something adjacent? Each Mixmastered channel is run by the same operator, to the same standard. They route through the same console.