What Makes Us Different
As artists ourselves we bring great care and an artist’s eye to every project, but we also bring extensive printing trade experience to find the most practical solution to getting it done. We balance the creative and the practical, the artistic and the commercial for every project, knowing that one does not need to be sacrificed for the other. With over 30 years in both the commercial and fine art printing worlds, we hold true to the belief that collaborative efforts often produce the best results. We love printing, but taking a project from concept to design, production, and finishing does not fall far behind.
Please contact us to see how we can put this exceptional service to work for you.
Who We Are
DAN WOOD is the founder and driving force (for better or worse!) at the shop. After briefly studying history at McGill University in Montreal, he received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1994. He has continued his education in print ever since, learning the trades of offset lithographic and letterpress printing in commercial print shops up and down the East Coast. He is an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows his own work nationally and internationally (some of which can be found here), and tries very hard to use his printing to make the world a better place. But to really know what is on his mind, see it translated through his Linotype Daily postings.
LOIS HARADA joined DWRI in 2011, just a year after graduating from RISD with a BFA in Printmaking. Lois is the Wedding and Social Stationery Manager at the shop and can guide you through all your print needs from save the dates to wedding invitation protocols to thank you cards and more. She exhibits her own work locally and nationally. Prints and projects can be seen on her website or on Instagram.
TOM SPRENKLE has been at DWRI since 2018, after studying graphic design and working in letterpress production for a dozen years on the West Coast. The Production Coordinator for the shop, he can be found working on price quotes, sweeping the floor, moving heavy machines, ordering and cutting paper, prepping digital artwork for film output, making plates, wrapping and packing finished jobs, stacking and re-stacking the shipping boxes -- all in an attempt to nudge production along and forestall shop inertia.
DIANA MURTON joined DWRI in 2025 after closing her pretty rad coffee shop, The Shop, following ten years in business. Diana is the Client & Project Coordinator at the shop and is often the first point of contact when you begin working with us and is there all the way through to the finish line. She's the owner of The Casting Project PVD where she casts films, commercials, and industrials. She teaches filmmaking and acting for film and television through her studio and youth programs around Providence, where kids create, write, act in, and crew their own short films. First and foremost, she’s a mama to three curious, kind, and genuinely lovely to be around goobers/girls.
NIKKI KLEIN graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2022 with a BFA in Printmaking. Nikki currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Their main focuses include printing, painting, and drawing; as well as embroidery, mending, and bookbinding.
Site-wide portfolio photography by Rue Sakayama.
Equipment and Capabilities
We have an ever-growing collection of letterpress presses and equipment in all shapes and sizes suited for smaller jobs of just a few impressions, or larger commercial runs in the tens of thousands. We can print from the latest digital files converted in-house to polymer plates, design a project using our own hot metal type cast on the Ludlow or Linotype, or use our collection of historical handset wood type. We offer typecasting services to the trade and to the public, as well as hot foil stamping on pencils. Please contact us with any questions you may have, and we will be happy to let you know if it is a project we can take on, or at the very least point you in the right direction (or suggest a new moisturizer).
Press Room: Golding Jobber no. 18, Chandler and Price 10x15, Kluge 13x19 (x2), Poly MAN Automatic-fed cylinder press, Heidelberg Windmill 10x15 (x2), Heidelberg Windmill 10x15 with foil, Vandercook no. 4, Asbern proof press, Kensol book foil press, automatic-fed pencil foil press (x2), and more…
Platemaking: Anderson Vreeland A3 polymer platemaker, in-house film output care of Faces Imaging.
Typecasting: Linotype Model 31 linecaster (x2), Ludlow Typograph Model L. See our list of matrices available for casting here.
Finishing: Pro-Cut Model 320 programmable guillotine, Bostich no. 7 stitcher, Singer 132K6 thread stitched binder.