Prisma Print Ltd is a printing, publishing and design business in Blenheim, established in 2000 to meet a local need for short-run publication services in Marlborough. Since then, the business has grown into a wider range of printing, publishing and design services, delivered with what it describes as fast, efficient service.
Alongside commercial printing and design work, Prisma Print also runs its own book shop, publishing and selling a range of titles directly. Books are sold in New Zealand dollars, with the business handling overseas pricing, postage and office pickups on request.
As a local Marlborough business, Prisma Print positions itself as a one-stop option for short-run book publishing as well as everyday print and design needs, from business stationery to event materials.
Prisma Print Ltd has been operating in Blenheim since 2000, when it was established specifically to fill a gap in Marlborough for local short-run publication services. Over the years, the business has broadened out from that original focus into a fuller range of printing, publishing and design services, while keeping short-run book publishing at the core of what it does.
While book printing and publishing remain central to the business, Prisma Print's service list covers a lot of ground. Book layout and cover design sit alongside general graphic design work, and the business also handles everyday commercial printing - business cards, letterheads, newsletters, posters, brochures and rack cards. For more personal or creative printing needs, Prisma Print also produces artists' cards, prints and bookmarks, invitations, postcards, calendars and gift cards.
One detail that sets Prisma Print apart from a standard print shop is its own book shop, where titles the business has published are sold directly to customers. The current range includes children's titles like Anxious Allie and Her Brave Brother Ben and Anxious Allie and Her Sad Friend Jane, alongside titles such as A Pelorus Boy, Nightfall in the Wind, Live the Day, and Forty Miles from Nowhere. All books are listed in New Zealand dollars, and the business handles overseas pricing and postage, or arranges direct pickup from the office, on request.
For authors in Marlborough looking to get a short print run of their own book made, Prisma Print's history as a business built specifically around that need is worth noting - it's not a sideline for a general commercial printer, but the reason the business exists in the first place. That focus carries through into the design services on offer, with dedicated book layout and cover design work available alongside the printing itself.
Prisma Print is located at Shop 5, 14 Alana Place, Blenheim, Marlborough. The shop keeps set hours across the working week: Monday from 10.30am to 3.00pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 8.00am to 3.00pm, and Thursday from 10.00am to 3.00pm. The shop is closed on weekends and public holidays, so it's worth planning a visit within those hours if you're dropping by in person rather than contacting the business online.