Founded in 1972, MasterPress began providing labels and nameplates to local Seattle companies. Fourteen years later, Ron Shigeno, seeing its potential for incredible influence in the industry, purchased the company with a great vision for MasterPress: a print manufacturer with not only a solid foundation of great customer service and quality products, but also the dynamic combination of efficient procedures and cutting-edge technology. Under his ambitious direction, MasterPress began aggressively purchasing new equipment while steadily growing with the production of labels and overlays.

By 1989 MasterPress had already outgrown its humble space in Queen Anne and moved into a larger facility in North Seattle, allowing further pursuit of its winning combination of excellent efficiency and state-of-the-art technology. It was here that the rapidly growing company purchased their first Sakauri, an automatic press. The award-winning team also began producing membrane switches after the acquisition of Seattle Technical Services.

2003 brought another move for the company. Ten blocks north of their previous facility, MasterPress now resides in a 20,000 square foot building specifically designed for the production of labels, overlays, membrane switches, screen and digital printing. The building houses twelve presses, including: automatic, semi-automatic, Linde and digital printing. Among these presses are the HP Indigo® press and two Mimaki digital presses.

In 2006, the expert staff at MasterPress was granted an ISO 9001, a certification for creating high quality products while providing great customer service and constantly improving MasterPress’ internal processes. With local, national and international clientele, MasterPress has grown into a leading print and label company that is still on the frontier of printing technology and will continue to provide great products and services in the years to come.