HISTORY
L+L Companies was founded in February 1959 as a 3-man operation on University Ave in San Diego, as L+L Printers. Since then, L+L has grown to over 120 employees, located in 3 manufacturing facilities encompassing over 80,000 square feet of workspace. Throughout the history of L+L Companies, we have maintained our focus on creating the highest quality printing available, providing superior customer service and continually exploring methods to provide the best print and marketing solutions to our clients.
MISSION
Never a drop in quality. This being our driving force, we continually strive to be the premier provider of print services and marketing solutions in an ever-changing world.
DIVISIONS
L+L PRINTERS // est. 1959
L+L Printers is the quintessential traditional offset printing company. We offer stochastic printing, soy based inks, G7 certification and everything else you would expect from a premier printing company. We are everything a printer should be and more.
BORDEAUX // est. 2009
Bordeaux is our “boutique” print services division with specialization in high-end, customized printing, fine art prints and agency specialty projects.
L+L DIGITAL // est. 2007
L+L Digital is our state-of-the-art variable data printing (VDP) and digital division. Our Digital Solutions include marketing strategies and custom programmed applications. Through our unique marketing solutions, we provide tremendous value to our clients through increased return on investment (ROI).
SPECIALIST MEDIA GROUP // est. 2011
With the addition of Specialist Media Group’s team of programmers, we expanded our expertise in variable data printing and custom programming solutions. SMG is also our full service mail production division. From list acquisition to data hygiene to pre-sorting for optimum USPS postal discounts, our direct mail experts will manufacture your mail piece to ensure you pay the lowest possible postage.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Click here to view a PDF of our equipment list.
VPM CASE STUDY
A case study about L+L Printers’ use of Visual Process Management (VPM) produced by our business partners, SmartDraw.
View the case study here.
G7 MASTER PRINTER
WHAT IS G7?
A Certified G7 Master Printer uses the latest technology and equipment to provide the most accurate and consistent color. G7 is a set of international color standards of measurement for CMYK and RGB. To learn more about G7 certification visit the IDEAlliance website.
HOW DOES IT BENEFIT ME?
What sets apart a Certified G7 Master Printer from the rest of the industry is having the ability to have a closer visual match between proofs to the final printed product and also between the printed outputs from press to press.
CHOOSE PRINT
Print on paper has an exciting story to tell, a story that shows print is still an environmentally sound and extremely popular communications media and a vital component of the contemporary marketing mix. Companies everywhere rely on print to enhance brand identity, increase sales, and drive readers to digital technologies. Print’s resilience can be traced to its unique qualities: Print is enduring, versatile, credible, inviting, popular, beautiful, highly personalized, recyclable, and renewable.
Choose Print is an educational campaign designed to promote the effectiveness of print and to reinforce the fact that print on paper is a recyclable and renewable and thus a sustainable environmental choice.
To learn more, visit Choose Print’s site.
