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Who this is
Two people and a press.
25A Print Shop is the printing arm of Big Nice Studio, a recording studio that has been running for a decade in Rhode Island. Same building, same people, same idea about how to treat somebody’s project.
Where it came from
It started with band merch.
Big Nice Studio has been recording local and international artists for ten years. Bands finish a record, and the next question is always the same one: where do we get shirts made, and why does every quote come back with a setup fee nobody mentioned?
So we bought a press. Then a dryer, then an exposure unit, then a wall of ink. Now the shirts get made in the same building as the record, and the printing side takes work from anyone — restaurants, plumbers, schools, rescues, whoever walks in.
Small on purpose
A twenty-shirt order is a real order here.
Most shops set a fifty or seventy-two piece minimum because small runs are annoying on a big automatic press. We run a manual carousel, so the maths is different: setting up for twenty shirts costs us roughly what setting up for two hundred does, and that setup is already in the flat rate. Which means the small job you cannot get printed anywhere else is a normal Tuesday for us.
How we work
Three things we are stubborn about.
Nothing prints unapproved
Every job gets a proof on a private link and waits there until you approve it. Not a courtesy — a hard gate in our own system. Nobody here can skip it to save an afternoon.
Color gets measured
Brand colors are mixed to a Pantone or hex target and checked against it numerically, then the recipe is logged against your job. A reprint a year later comes back matching.
The price is the price
The rate card is published on this site. There is no hidden screen fee, no rush charge you find out about at pickup, and no artwork charge that was not quoted to you first.
The unglamorous part
We built the software too.
The proof portal, the color log, the screen rack, the job tracking — all of it runs on a system we wrote ourselves, because the off-the-shelf options were either built for shops forty times our size or held together with spreadsheets.
That is not something a customer should have to care about. It just means the answer to “where is my job” is a real answer, and the ink recipe from your last run is still on file when you come back for another hundred.
Where we are
Lincoln, Rhode Island.
Ten minutes from Providence, fifteen from Pawtucket and Cumberland, twenty from Woonsocket and Attleboro. Most of what leaves this shop never crosses a state line, and that is the way we like it.