About

Remco Press was founded by my grand­fa­ther, Paul Skalicky, in 1961. Paul was born and raised in the Bronx bor­ough of New York City, and fought in World War II as a tail-gunner in the U.S. Air Force. When he came back from the war, he found work set­ting lead type in Manhattan’s Chelsea print­ing dis­trict, and opened Remco Press in 1961. We are pretty sure that Remco was a name he pulled out of thin air (most likely because Acme had already been taken)! At first, Remco Press was a trade shop, work­ing solely for print­ing bro­kers and count­ing among its few employ­ees Paul’s eleven-year-old son, Anthony.

By the late 1960s, Anthony was work­ing with Paul dur­ing the day at Remco Press and work­ing nights at Pioneer-Moss, a much larger union shop fur­ther uptown, mas­ter­ing his craft on a Vandercook four color proof­ing press. It wasn’t long before Remco Press started to expand. Paul was quite con­tent to run a job for a bro­ker and then take the after­noon off to fish or go bowl­ing. Tony, how­ever, oper­ated at a dif­fer­ent speed. Under his direc­tion, Remco Press acquired new off­set print­ing presses and began work­ing with design­ers, non-profits, and larger direct accounts.

My grand­fa­ther passed on in 1988, and today Remco is still owned and oper­ated by my father Anthony (known to nearly every­one as Tony Sr.) and me. Remco Press has since moved from the Chelsea area to the beau­ti­ful vis­tas of West New York, NJ.

The print­ing busi­ness has changed a lot, but Remco is still here, doing work we love with cus­tomers we love to work with, some of whom have been with us for over 35 years! We answer our own phones, we (try to) reply to our email right away, and we han­dle every job like it’s the only one we have in-house. And if you have a hun­dred ques­tions, we’ll try to find a hun­dred answers. That kind of ser­vice is tough to find anywhere. Call us crazy, but we think putting ink on paper is excit­ing. It’s a fam­ily thing.

If you have to put ink on paper for any rea­son, whether it be a metic­u­lously designed invi­ta­tion or a bor­ing old office form, we want to hear about it. And if you have a hun­dred ques­tions — or just one — feel free to send us an email, but feel even more free to give us a call at (201) 751‑5703.

Thanks for visiting!

Tony Skalicky, Jr.