A press is a line of machines that has to go back together exactly as it came apart. Across the Denver metro we take presses and bindery equipment down unit by unit with your technicians, rig and crate each piece, and set them back in order so the press can be brought up again.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides printing press moving in Denver, CO and the surrounding metro. We move offset, web, flexo, and digital presses and bindery lines — disassembled with your press technicians, rigged, crated, moved, and reassembled in order. Our crews work across Denver and nearby Colorado metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Moving a press is mostly a sequencing problem. Each printing unit, the feeder, the delivery, the dryers and the controls come apart in an order, travel as separate loads, and have to reach the new floor in the order they go back down. In Denver, print and packaging shops run tight schedules, so the downtime window is usually what the whole plan is built around.
Badass Logistics works alongside your press technicians or the manufacturer's: they handle the mechanical and electrical disconnects, and we rig, skid, crate, and load each section. At the new site we set the units on the layout and our millwrights level and align them for the technicians to reconnect. Moving the whole plant? That's plant relocation. How to move a printing press →
Denver's print and packaging base includes Denver Post Adams County printing plant. Shops like these replace and relocate presses on tight downtime windows, so the teardown, the loads, and the reassembly are scheduled as one job.
Printing press moving is a specialist service, so we run it where the sector is concentrated. Outside Denver, the largest of those markets are:
Commercial printers, newspaper plants, and packaging and converting shops around Denver run lines that come apart in sections. The equipment we move includes:
The floor is the constraint. Denver's industrial buildings are a mix of century-old brick and heavy-timber industrial buildings in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea corridor with rail spurs and narrow bays, and newer clear-span distribution buildings along the I-70 and I-76 corridors, and a press needs a level slab with the capacity for its heaviest unit before anything is set. Most print and converting floors here sit in the Waterton Canyon aerospace campus in Jefferson County, the Centennial Airport aerospace corridor in Arapahoe County, the Commerce City refining and rail district north of downtown, and the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea industrial corridor along the South Platte River.
Multi-unit sheetfed presses taken down, moved, and set in sequence across the Denver metro.
Web press units, folders, and reel stands rigged and relocated across the Denver metro.
Flexo, converting, and packaging lines moved for packaging plants across the Denver metro.
Cutters, folders, stitchers, and finishing lines moved and set across the Denver metro.
Plenty of Denver jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-25, I-70 and I-76, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Every printing press moving job in Denver, CO is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Denver jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Denver crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Denver? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Denver, CO and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Printing Press Moving throughout Denver and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | Adams County | 8 mi |
| Lakewood | Jefferson County | 6 mi |
| Commerce City | Adams County | 6 mi |
| Thornton | Adams County | 9 mi |
| Westminster | Adams County | 7 mi |
| Arvada | Jefferson County | 7 mi |
| Centennial | Arapahoe County | 13 mi |
| Brighton | Adams County | 19 mi |
| Golden | Jefferson County | 13 mi |
| Boulder | Boulder County | 24 mi |
| Greeley | Weld County | 50 mi |
| Highlands Ranch | Douglas County | 13 mi |
| Longmont | Boulder County | 30 mi |
| Loveland | Larimer County | 46 mi |
| Broomfield | Broomfield County | 14 mi |
| Castle Rock | Douglas County | 26 mi |
| Parker | Douglas County | 19 mi |
| Littleton | Arapahoe County | 9 mi |
| Northglenn | Adams County | 10 mi |
| Dakota Ridge | Jefferson County | 12 mi |
| Englewood | Arapahoe County | 6 mi |
| Ken Caryl | Jefferson County | 13 mi |
| Wheat Ridge | Jefferson County | 5 mi |
| Lafayette | Boulder County | 18 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Denver services or get a quote.
Most Denver jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Denver crew.
industrial rigging in Denver →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Denver as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Denver →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Denver.
CNC machine movers in Denver →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Denver plants.
Denver plant & factory relocation →In Denver we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Denver.
The same Denver crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Denver: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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