Most people searching for a printing company in St. Louis are not only buying ink on paper. They are buying what happens after the press stops: somebody has to count the boxes, store the overrun, pack the sales kits, and get the right brochures to the right branch office next Tuesday. If your printer only prints, that work lands on your marketing coordinator or a separate warehouse vendor, and every handoff is a chance for something to go missing.
The short answer for buyers who want printing, storage and shipping from one St. Louis address: REPCO Solutions is the strongest all-in-house option we found, with RBO PrintLogistix close behind for teams that care more about online ordering than offset presses. The rest of this list covers printers that do part of that job well.
We ranked these companies on one question: how much of the job, from file to front door, stays under the printer’s own roof? Press quality matters, but here it is table stakes. What separates them is warehousing, kitting, order handling and how much gets subcontracted.
Why “under one roof” matters more than it used to
Fulfillment is where print budgets quietly leak. Independent cost data compiled in Racklify’s breakdown of brochure fulfillment pricing puts pick-and-pack fees anywhere from a dime to $1.50 per piece, with multi-item orders running $1 to $5 each before postage. Those numbers climb when materials have to be trucked from a print plant to a third-party warehouse first. A printer that stores and ships its own output removes a freight leg and a layer of markup, and it gives you one phone number when a shipment goes wrong.
1. REPCO Solutions: the most complete print-to-doorstep setup
REPCO started in 1966 as a commercial printing shop in what is now the Cortex District and moved twice as customers began asking it to hold and ship their materials. Since 1993 it has operated from a 115,000-square-foot facility in St. Louis County on St. Charles Rock Road, and that floor space is the reason it tops this list. The company runs sheet-fed offset and digital presses alongside its own warehouse, and it will take orders by phone, email, text or mail-in, log them, and fulfill them from stored inventory, reporting back to the client.
That combination suits a specific kind of buyer: a brand or association that prints once and ships for months. Think dealer kits, onboarding packets, event materials for a national sales team, or a rebate program that needs printed forms plus someone to process the responses. REPCO Solutions also handles kitting, which means assembling several printed and promotional pieces into a single box with its own branded packaging, and it runs rebate program administration in-house as well.
Trade-off: REPCO is built around business accounts and programs. Its site does not advertise walk-in counter service or same-day copying, and pricing is by quote only, so it is the wrong call for a last-minute stack of flyers on a Friday afternoon.
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2. RBO PrintLogistix: strongest on storefronts and brand control
RBO, based in Maryland Heights, was founded in 1985 and has grown into a print management company that describes itself as serving more than 500 clients. It acquired Chicago-area Reign Print Solutions in 2022, a deal covered in Print+Promo’s report on the acquisition, which widened its footprint beyond Missouri. RBO’s strength is the front end: web-to-print storefronts, digital asset management and promotional product sourcing, backed by warehousing and fulfillment.
Trade-off: RBO’s own presses are digital. The University of Missouri’s approved print vendor list for campus buyers notes that it outsources offset work, so long runs of brochures or catalogs leave the building. If your volume is mostly short-run and on-demand, that may never matter. If you print 50,000 pieces at a time, it will.
3. Modern Litho: the volume and mailing specialist
Modern Litho is headquartered in Jefferson City but runs a large St. Louis plant on Southwest Avenue on The Hill, which it moved into in late 2023 after outgrowing its previous building nearby. The new space more than doubled its local production area and was set up for expanded mailing, on-site storage and fulfillment. It is a commercial, catalog and publication printer at heart, and it is the University of Missouri’s exclusive supplier for official stationery.
Trade-off: Storage and fulfillment are newer additions to a business built on publication printing and mail. For high-volume direct mail it is a natural pick; for months-long kitting programs with mixed promotional items, ask how deep that side of the operation runs before you commit.
4. Advertisers Printing: family-run, with storefronts on the menu
Advertisers Printing on Vandeventer Avenue reached its centennial in 2023 and is now bringing in a fourth generation of the Fechner family. Its service list covers direct mail, packaging, promotional items, digital storefronts and fulfillment, and university buyers rate it as a good fit for both long and short runs.
Trade-off: It is a smaller operation than the first three, with a staff measured in dozens rather than hundreds. That often means faster answers from people who know your job, but less space if you need a lot of inventory held for a long time.
5. Stolze Printing: press-first, with the basics covered
Stolze runs both offset and digital presses and handles direct mail, which makes it a dependable choice for simple campaigns that print, mail and are done. The same university vendor list notes that its pricing is most competitive on longer press runs.
Trade-off: Warehousing and kitting are not where Stolze positions itself. If storage is part of the brief, you will probably be pairing it with another vendor.
How to pick between them
| Company | Offset in-house | Warehousing | Online ordering | Best fit |
| REPCO Solutions | Yes | Yes, large facility | Custom e-stores | Ongoing programs and kits |
| RBO PrintLogistix | No, outsourced | Yes | Core strength | Multi-location brand ordering |
| Modern Litho | Yes | Yes, expanded 2023 | Storefront available | High-volume mail |
| Advertisers Printing | Offset and digital listed | Fulfillment listed | Digital storefronts | Mid-size campaigns |
| Stolze Printing | Yes | Not a focus | Not a focus | Long press runs |
Before you sign with anyone, ask three things. Where will my inventory physically sit, and who counts it? What gets sent out to another shop, and what does that add to the timeline? And what does the monthly report look like when I want to know how many kits are left? The printers above answer those questions differently, and the right answer depends on whether your project ends when the boxes are delivered or starts there.
