Live Printing at McCormick Place | On-Site Event Printing Chicago

Venues / Chicago

The biggest convention center in North America, worked by a team that is mostly Chicago based, with most of the gear already in the region. That is how we run every major city in the country.

Hyper local, everywhere

We keep equipment hubs in major cities and event leads and crews in nearly every major market. Our staff list runs 400 deep. When we work McCormick, most of the team comes from this region and most of the gear is already close by, so what moves is usually a short regional trip instead of a haul across the country.

So when your dock time moves, when the fire marshal wants another look, when somebody realizes at 6am that the hoodies went to the wrong hall, we are not solving it from a different time zone. That is the difference between a partner in your market and a vendor who visits it.

400People on our staff list

2,000+Activations run

2009Printing since. Live since 2016

Sustainability

The cleanest freight is the freight nobody ships

Being regional is not only faster and cheaper for you. It is lighter on the planet. Crews and equipment that already live near your city means we are not trucking a full rig across the country or flying a team in to print your shirts. Fewer miles is the part of sustainability nobody puts on a badge.

Allmade

Our founders helped start Allmade, a sustainable wholesale shirt brand. We did not go shopping for a greener blank. We helped build one.

Second Chances

Also founder built. Totes and bandanas made from recycled material, which is where a lot of our giveaway pieces come from.

Water based inks

Barrel Maker, our production house, specializes in eco friendly water based inks and high quality printing and embroidery for brands nationwide.

1%
For the
Planet

We are a member of 1% For The Planet and we get certified every single year. One percent of revenue goes to environmental nonprofits. Not a pledge page, not a badge we handed ourselves, an audited commitment we renew annually.

What happens in your booth

Guests pick a garment, pick their colors, and watch it get made. That is the whole trick and it works every single time. A press running in your booth is the difference between people walking past and people standing in line.

We bring the full studio. Screen printing, embroidery, laser engraving, DTF, hand jet spray, hat and patch bars. Our printers are as good with a crowd as they are with a squeegee, which is the part most people underestimate. We are your brand's favorite band and the booth is the stage.

We know the building

Dock schedules and drayage, handled before you have to think about it
Certificates of insurance in the format McCormick actually wants
Union labor rules about who plugs in what
Fire marshal signoff on equipment
Freight elevators that are always busy exactly when you need them

None of that is glamorous and all of it can sink an activation. We have done it here enough times that it is boring to us, which is exactly what you want it to be.

Brands who put us in front of their people

Chicago Bears
NFL
Live Nation
Gatorade
Frito Lay
Kraft Heinz
Barstool Sports
Dick's Sporting Goods
Toyota
Disney
ESPN
Motorola
American Cancer Society
Sprout Social

We are also the quiet secret weapon behind a lot of agency events you have been to without ever knowing we were there. That is the job and we are happy in the background.