About

Iron Ink Printing Co.

We roll up in a trailer and leave you looking better than you did.

Let's address the obvious: you're reading this on a website. For a company whose whole reason for existing is "your gear shouldn't come from some faceless website," that's either bold or wildly hypocritical. We're going with bold — and we'll explain.

We started Iron Ink because we believe the things you wear and the things you hand out — the team hoodie, the tumbler with your shop's logo on it, the shirt that makes a stranger snort-laugh in the cereal aisle — ought to come from an actual human who lives where you live. Someone who shows up, knows the town, and stands behind the work. Not a logo and a shrug from three time zones away. Your community deserves better than anonymous sameness. It deserves a neighbor with a heat press.

So we built one. Then we built a whole trailer around it. We haul our direct-to-film printing and laser engraving setup to wherever the people are — Good Guys car shows at the Washington State Fairgrounds, holiday markets where we'll laser a kid's name onto something while they watch it happen. The hands-on work is hand-pressed, hand-engraved, occasionally hand-cursed-at when a design fights back, and always done right here in the 253.

Here's the part most shops won't say out loud: we don't hand-press every last thing — some pieces we print on demand so we can offer more. But every design in our lineup is ours, drawn in-house, not pulled off some clip-art bin and slapped on a blank. And the work that earns the hands — engraving, leatherette patches, custom team and school runs, the name we'll burn into a tumbler while you wait — that's us, in the trailer, doing it ourselves.

Here's what we put in your hands: custom graphic tees and hoodies — car-show Americana, unapologetic PNW pride, the adulting humor that hits a little too close to home, kids' designs, and seasonal runs. Hats with laser-cut leatherette patches. Engraved hard goods like tumblers, metal wallets, awards, and wood pieces. And if you've got a team, a school, a shop, or a whole organization that needs a pile of matching gear — that's our favorite kind of order.

Which brings us back to this website. We built it so the folks who already know us can reorder without flagging us down between corn dogs, and so people one town over can get our gear without standing in a parking lot in the rain to do it. Same people. Same town. Same standards. Just a longer reach.

So poke around. Buy a shirt. Better yet — come find the trailer and heckle us in person.

Iron Ink Printing Co. — Puyallup, WA. Proudly 253.

~Denise & Kris

Catch us in person

  • Good Guys Car Shows — Washington State Fairgrounds
  • Seasonal holiday markets — live name personalization, made on the spot