Print the Chicken started in a garage with a Roland UV flatbed and a hand-built jig for golf balls. It is still, in spirit, that same studio — just with more substrates, sharper proofs, and more weddings on the books.
After more than a decade in commercial print — banners, vehicle wraps, big-format litho — Tommy got tired of producing things that ended up in a landfill within the year.
Print the Chicken was started to do the opposite: print things that last a generation. A custom YETI passed down. A backlit address sign on the new house. A foursome of golf balls saved from the day the team won the tournament. Permanence is the entire point of the studio.
That's why we picked the Roland VersaObject MO-240, a flatbed normally reserved for ad-agency prototyping shops and OEM brand houses. It bonds ink molecularly to a surface, full color, raised and tactile. It's why our license plate frames don't peel. It's why our doctor-appreciation tumblers stay legible after a thousand dishwasher cycles. It's why a Shelby decal printed on carbon survives summer in an OC garage.
We pair it with a CO₂ + fiber laser bay for the marks UV can't make: engraved hardwood, leather, deep stainless. Two studios under one roof, one operator, one set of eyes on every piece.
The name is a wink at the print industry's most-quoted color test page, the one every commercial press operator runs a hundred times a week. (If you know, you know.) The chicken-foot tracks in the logo represent ink walking, step by step, across a substrate. It's a printer's joke wrapped in a brand mark.
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