Dakota Press

I love Dakota Press! I have found them to be more friendly, responsive, and accommodating compared to other printers. I’ve had them make last minute edits to documents and they’re happy to work with me until I’m satisfied. They also have quick turnaround at very competitive prices. I will always try to work with Dakota when possible.

Excellent work! We started with Dakota Printing when Mari and Gary took over for the previous owners. They’ve done multiple jobs for us and the quality of the printing has been terrific.
Dakota Press is very responsive and will work with you to make sure that your job is handled the way you want it done. Their customer service people are helpful and we can’t say enough good things about Donna, our own customer service representative. She’s been the liaison between us and our various shipping companies and even helped submit claims for us.
Their pre-​press department is excellent. Technically, they really know their stuff and will work with you to optimize your product — including help you with the right computer settings as well as making minor fixes (often without charge!).
Dakota understands that money is tight. Although they are a business, they know that the way to stay in business is to make their customers look good at a cost the customer can afford.
All in all, we would recommend Dakota Press.
Kirsten, (posting from Fran’s account)

Overall I’m very happy with the quality of work, timeliness, and professionalism I’ve experienced with Dakota Press.
The owners Mari and Gary were longtime executives at Alonzo Printing in Hayward, which unfortunately was a casualty of the recession. My place of employment had worked with Alonzo for years and was very happy with them (including their use of best practices to be the Bay Area’s «environmental printer»).
We were glad to hear we’d still get to work with Gary at Dakota Press. He and Mari brought key staff over from Alonzo, as well as their environmentally friendly approach. They have invested in new state of the art equipment and are great at what they do, which is to produce high-​quality work for a reasonable price.

AVOID! Seems to be very unorganized. My phone calls to the technical person didn’t go well. So when I went down there, I can see ownership has changed. Very odd. Hard to explain. Almost as if the owners were tied up in a back room lol. I am not kidding. Definitely has not changed for the better.

I’ve only recently discovered Dakota Press in San Leandro. Guess being a graphic designer in the Bay Area for more than 20 years and having worked with a sizable number of printers in my long career, it still comes as a pleasant surprise to find yet another excellent printer to add to my very short list of shops to work with. I first discovered Dakota when I was looking for a web press for a large newsletter printing – having become thoroughly frustrated with a printer called Folger Graphics that my client had referred for the project. At the time I was seeking competitive bids, I chose Descalso over Dakota, which was a real mistake if you are looking for good service. Completely downtrodden and feeling like maybe I was just too fussy, I turned to Dakota, and was wowed by the wonderful service and attention, the excellent price to print on a sheet fed press (much better quality than web), and the amazing quality of the printing. Good folks, the people at Dakota Press. I cannot recommend them more highly!