Morris Press

Morris Press is a printing service in Kearney, NE. The business serves Kearney and central Nebraska with printing, bindery, and graphic design services, and holds a 5.00 rating based on customer reviews. Their product range covers full-color and black-and-white copying, digital and traditional printing on a range of presses, and a bindery operation that produces more than 7.5 million books each year, including booklets, catalogs, manuals, newsletters, directories, calendars, handbooks, notepads, workbooks, memo pads, and brochures in binding styles such as saddle-stitch, perfect, plastic comb, three-ring, plastic coil, and glue.

The company traces its roots to 1933, when Fred Carlson purchased the Hub Printing Company and later operated it on East 22nd Street in Kearney. His son-in-law Harold Morris took over management, bought out Webert Printing in 1956, and moved the business to 2305 Central Avenue, the same address it occupies today. In 1972, office supplies and furniture were added to the product line, and the company incorporated as Morris Press and Office Supplies, Inc. in 1975. Harold Morris died in 1976, and his son Scott Morris became president. Under Scott's leadership, the firm launched a cookbook publishing division and, in 1989, moved its cookbook production to a sales and production facility on East Highway 30. In 1994, the company expanded into short-run book printing with Morris Publishing, and it now runs separate divisions dedicated to book and cookbook publishing.

The printing office is located on Central Avenue, about a tenth of a mile from the Museum of Nebraska Art and the Kearney Fire Department, roughly a quarter mile from the Kearney Public Library, and within a third of a mile of the Kearney Police Department and Buffalo County Sheriff's Offices. Staff are available by phone from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.

With four generations of family ownership and more than 90 years operating in Kearney, Morris Press combines a long local printing tradition with one of the larger in-house bindery operations in central Nebraska.