General commercial printing SERVICES

We are a family owned/operated company who live and work in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Dinsmore Lithographer was established in 1968 by Ray W. Dinsmore, Sr. Now retired after 29 years, Mr. Dinsmore began teaching as the Printing and Graphic Arts Instructor for Jefferson County-DuBois Vocational Technical School in Reynoldsville. Dinsmore Litho has operated under management by Ray Dinsmore, Jr. in a full-time capacity since 1985. The Dinsmore family have been continuous residents of Punxsy for nearly one hundred fifty years. This longevity in the community has gained us enormous expertise and insight to small town life.

What's in our name? Dinsmore... be assured we take a full measure of pride in who we are. Lithographer, a person who works at lithography. We do printing by the lithographic process. The image is specially prepared onto a plate in such a way that it is able to be inked and then transferred onto paper. The primary method used is "offset" printing. Simply, the image is created right-reading on a printing plate then inked onto a rubber blanket cylinder, which places the image backwards (or wrong-reading). When the paper is passed underneath this cylinder it is pressed (or offset) to the paper and becomes right-reading once again. The repeated application of the fixed image onto paper from a printing plate is our vocation. Dinsmore Lithographer may also use digital duplication of a customer's image or digital copying to fill an order.\