Radix Printing & Publishing Cooperative: Empowering Creativity, Celebrating Diversity
At Radix Printing and Publishing Cooperative, we are more than just ink on paper. As a worker-owned and operated union print shop and publisher based in Brooklyn, New York, we blend craftsmanship, community, and creativity to bring your vision to life.
Our Commitments:
- Wide Array of Print and Design Services: Whether you need business cards, annual reports, posters, banners, or custom invitations, we’ve got you covered. Our services span offset, letterpress, digital, and wide format printing, ensuring your projects stand out.
- Specialty Printing: From foil stamping to die-cutting, we infuse your materials with a touch of artistry. Our skilled team transforms paper into a canvas for your ideas.
- Friendly Direct Customer Service: When you work with Radix, you’re not just a client; you’re part of our creative family. We listen, collaborate, and guide you through the process, ensuring your experience is as smooth as our prints.
- Publishing Voices That Matter: We champion underrepresented authors and artists. Their stories, perspectives, and creativity deserve a platform. From thought-provoking essays to captivating novels, we publish works that challenge norms and inspire change.
Why Radix?
Our name, derived from the Latin root of “radical,” reflects our mission: to get to the root of what matters. Print isn’t just ink and paper—it’s a conduit for ideas, a bridge between communities, and a catalyst for transformation. When you choose Radix, you choose quality, ethics, and impact.
More Than Just Commercial Printing
Since 2010, Radix has been dedicated to the proliferation of beautiful printed matter. We began with custom made stationery and short runs of political pamphlets, and expanded into literary publishing in 2018. We edit, typeset, design, and produce all of our titles in-house. This gives us total flexibility over how our books look and feel. It also allows us to utilize and combine printing processes—including offset lithography, letterpress, and state-of-the-art digital technology—to make something truly special.
WORKER-OWNED
We’re worker-owned, because we believe that workers should have control over their workplace conditions and have a voice in the decisions that shape their lives. We are proud to operate a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses, which is almost unheard of in the publishing industry.
UNION STRONG
We’re union strong, because we know that without unions, we’d all be working 14-hour days and so would our children. (Note that our children appreciate unions, too.) We’re unionized with Local 1 of the Amalgamated Lithographers Union/International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
ECO-FRIENDLY
We’re eco-friendly, because we know that we only have one planet and that we should take care of it. We use 100% post-consumer recycled paper whenever possible, low-VOC inks in our presses, and dampening systems that are free of alcohol. This ensures that we are producing our books as responsibly as we can.
GETTING TO THE ROOT SINCE 2010.
The story of Radix Printing & Publishing Cooperative began as a tale of two print shops, but would ultimately become much more than that.
A small, worker-owned print shop named OccuCopy was founded in the fall of 2011, one of several worker cooperatives born out of the blossoming Occupy Wall Street movement. They set up shop in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn and became a crucial resource for both the radical and surrounding communities of New York City.
But before that, our story began in the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 2010. Radix was founded in Portland, Oregon as a one-person shop with a single offset press. We printed tens of thousands of pages for the creative and social justice communities. We also dipped our toes into independent publishing, putting out zines, posters, greeting cards, and other ephemera that were designed and printed in-house. After a trek across the country in the summer of 2012, Radix settled in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Both shops soon realized that we had much in common and decided that one unified print shop was better than two. After working together for almost a year to combine processes and train on new equipment, OccuCopy and Radix merged in the summer of 2013 and quickly established a reputation for clear, direct communication, high quality work, and stellar customer service.
In July 2017, we merged with Wasp Poster & Print, a specialty letterpress shop and design studio whose values and dedication to high quality printed matter overlapped with our own. This also greatly expanded our list of services to include larger runs of traditional letterpress as well as foil stamping, die-cutting, embossing, and paper duplexing. In April 2018, we expanded our publishing program with the release of our first title, AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief. Since then, we have published award-winning titles across genre and form.
OUR SERVICES
We look forward to working with you on your next project and if you’re a retailer looking to carry our products, please see our Wholesale Orders page for more information.