Print Happier moves from home to storefront as business grows
Jeremy and Laura West were not only happy to be in Bucyrus to experience totality during the solar eclipse, but they were excited about the purchase they were making at Print Happier.
“We are here for the path of totality of the eclipse and to visit family,” said Jeremy West, who traveled from Rifle, Colorado, to Bucyrus.
Jeremy West said he is a foodie and waited as Rachel and Kevin Myers, owners of Print Happier, created a Total of Eclipse of the Brat sweatshirt for him.
Rachel (Striker) Myers opened Print Happy in 2020, right before the pandemic hit.
“Things really took off when the pandemic hit because of the signs I created for essential workers,” Rachel said.
Business began to boom with essential worker flags
She created and produced yard flags that read, “An Essential Worker Lives Here,” along with an array of other signs and face masks through the business she operated at her home before moving it to East Warren Street.
“The essential worker signs just took off and really got the business going,” she said of the signs she shipped all over the country, including 200 to Missouri.
A few years later, she moved the business to its current location at 238 S. Sandusky Ave. and changed the name to Print Happier.
“I started helping out at the business after we were married. I have a lot to learn but I have a great teacher,” Kevin said of his new wife.
The couple married on Dec. 23.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the business by the Bucyrus Area Chamber of Commerce recently.
“We are a small family-owned and -operated screen printing and custom design business. We do not currently have any employees, however, as we continue to grow, we intend to add additional help,” Rachel said. “We’ve had one job shadower with two more scheduled.”
Customized offerings a key to their success
The business not only offers a variety of products, but various quantities also.
“We have been selling T-shirts predominately lately, but I think the more people come into the shop, the more they realize the vast possibilities of things we can create with them and for them,” Rachel said. “I don’t think people have fully realized everything we do here and our ability and willingness to customize and create their wildest ideas.”
The couple is more than happy to do low run (small quantity, no minimums) paper products that would not be economical elsewhere.
“We offer a line of award plaques that can be full color printed or laser engraved. We also print and/or engrave personalized gifts for things like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries,” Rachel said.
Rachel said she and Kevin strive to bring the wildest ideas to life and also to print routine items such as company shirts, business cards and shipping labels.
“If you can dream it, we can do it, for the most part,” said Rachel as she pressed the eclipse sweatshirt for Jeremy West.
She said the shop offers school spirit wear from sweatsuits and keychains to garden flags and large face cutouts.
“We also love doing fundraisers and have a great platform in place to offer organizations specific online stores where we handle ordering, inventory and delivery including shipping,” Rachel said. “I love creating things for people that make than happy or that can help in some way.”
She said her shop is creating products as part of a fundraiser for Bucyrus resident Gabby Kozinski, who recently was named Ms. Wheelchair Ohio 2024, so she can attend the national competition in August.
The shop is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and by appointment Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. The store is closed Sundays.
For more information, call 419-562-5694 or visit printhappier.com or Facebook.
This article originally appeared on Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum: Print Happier finds success in Bucyrus business community
