Join Us as a Member!

Due to Covid-19 protocol, current studio hours are by appointment only. More info on appointments here. If you need to cancel or put your membership on hold, please contact Emmy at eao@iprc.org.
Basic Membership

As a Basic Member you gain access to the main studio, receive discounts on copies & workshops, and receive free admission to IPRC events, readings and lectures. In addition, Basic Membership also includes 3 Learn Make Share workshops a year.  Standard Basic Member prices are $10 a month or $100 a year.*

Become a Basic Member

Studio Membership

As a Studio Member, you gain all of the benefits of Basic Membership as well as access to the letterpress, screen printing, and risograph print studios (once you’ve completed requisite “Intro” workshop, though people with extensive past printmaking experience may be able to “test out” of intro workshops). Standard Studio Member prices are $25 a month or $250 a year.*

Become a Studio Member

 

 

More about memberships

Your story, your project, our shared studio space. Joining the IPRC community as a member will give you access to all of the resources you need to bring your ideas to life. Join as a Basic or Studio Member depending on your independent publishing needs. By becoming a member, you support the IPRC’s mission to provide affordable access to tools and resources for independent publishing.

*Everything that the IPRC does is offered on a sliding scale, so please contact eao@iprc.org to discuss a rate that will work for you. Those that are able to pay the standard membership prices help support our scholarship and reduced rate memberships, thank you!

Click to view the IPRC Member Handbook

Our facilities include:

  • A Letterpress Studio featuring table top and flatbed presses, as well as more than 150 diverse fonts of lead type, 25 fonts of wood type, and many unique engravings and printer’s ornaments
  • A Screen Printing studio where you can access basic screen printing supplies such as cleaners and silkscreen emulsion, screens and ink. We also provide an exposure unit, a light tight closet for exposing screens, a wash out booth, a drying rack for the screen studio, and a light table.
  • A Risograph print studio featuring 3 GR3770s risograph printers and 13 color drums
  • A BindFast Perfect Binding Service: Bring covers and interiors to have supervisors bind  professional Perfect Bound books with custom or generic wrap around covers. The BindFast machine is able to produce up to 30 perfect-bound books. See our Bindfast page for more information about prepping your files for printing.
  • A computer lab of Mac desktop computers with the Adobe Creative Suite, and large format scanners.
  • Two copier machines for digital printing, or scanning.
  • An assortment of supplies needed to hand bind books and finalize the production of books, zines or other publications, including saddle staplers, long arm staplers, corner rounders, paper scorers, 2 stack cutters, book mats, bone folders, exacto knives, awls and waxed thread.
  • Other various supplies: button makers and button supplies, colored pencils, stamps, pens, and basic art supplies.

Membership has other perks too:

  • 5% discount on used materials at SCRAP.
  • Discounted copies and workshops.
  • Access to members-only workshops.
  • Fee free access to our facilities.
  • Supports all our outreach efforts, which include teaching media literacy, critical thinking and zine making skills to at-risk youth.

The IPRC also allows access to our studio for non-members at the following rates:

  • $3/hour (Basic), $5/hour (Studio)
  • $5/day (Basic), $10/day (Studio)
  • $15/week (Basic), $20/week (Studio)
  • $30/month (Basic), $40/month (Studio)