A press is a line of machines that has to go back together exactly as it came apart. Across the Seattle 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 Seattle, WA 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 Seattle and nearby Washington 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 Seattle, 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 →
Seattle's print and packaging base includes Seattle Times Kent 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 Seattle, the largest of those markets are:
Commercial printers, newspaper plants, and packaging and converting shops around Seattle run lines that come apart in sections. The equipment we move includes:
The floor is the constraint. Seattle's industrial buildings are a mix of early-20th-century brick and heavy-timber warehouses near the waterfront with tight column spacing and low dock heights, and newer clear-span industrial buildings further south along the Duwamish, 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 Greater Duwamish Manufacturing and Industrial Center along the Duwamish River, including the SODO and Georgetown areas, the Ballard-Interbay Northend manufacturing and industrial area, and Fisherman's Terminal on Salmon Bay, home port to the nation's largest fishing fleet.
Multi-unit sheetfed presses taken down, moved, and set in sequence across the Seattle metro.
Web press units, folders, and reel stands rigged and relocated across the Seattle metro.
Flexo, converting, and packaging lines moved for packaging plants across the Seattle metro.
Cutters, folders, stitchers, and finishing lines moved and set across the Seattle metro.
Plenty of Seattle jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-5, I-90 and I-82, 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.
Presses moving into or out of Seattle rarely travel as one load. The Port of Seattle operates container and cargo terminals on Elliott Bay and along the Duwamish River waterway as part of the Puget Sound gateway to Asia-Pacific trade. Served by BNSF, whose SIG Yard sits in the SODO area of the Duwamish industrial district and connects to Port of Seattle cargo terminals. A used press sold overseas or bought in from another plant is crated unit by unit and sequenced so the sections reach the floor in the order they go back down.
Every printing press moving job in Seattle, WA 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 Seattle jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Seattle crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Seattle? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Seattle, WA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Printing Press Moving throughout Seattle and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Tacoma | Pierce County | 25 mi |
| Bellevue | King County | 6 mi |
| Kent | King County | 16 mi |
| Renton | King County | 10 mi |
| Auburn | King County | 21 mi |
| Everett | Snohomish County | 27 mi |
| Federal Way | King County | 20 mi |
| Sumner | Pierce County | 28 mi |
| Fife | Pierce County | 25 mi |
| Lakewood | Pierce County | 31 mi |
| Kirkland | King County | 8 mi |
| Marysville | Snohomish County | 32 mi |
| Redmond | King County | 11 mi |
| Olympia | Thurston County | 47 mi |
| Shoreline | King County | 10 mi |
| South Hill | Pierce County | 32 mi |
| Sammamish | King County | 12 mi |
| Burien | King County | 9 mi |
| Lacey | Thurston County | 46 mi |
| City of Sammamish | King County | 14 mi |
| Bothell | King County | 12 mi |
| Edmonds | Snohomish County | 14 mi |
| Puyallup | Pierce County | 29 mi |
| Bremerton | Kitsap County | 14 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Seattle services or get a quote.
Most Seattle 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 Seattle crew.
industrial rigging in Seattle →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Seattle as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Seattle →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Seattle.
CNC machine movers in Seattle →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Seattle plants.
Seattle plant & factory relocation →In Seattle 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 Seattle.
The same Seattle crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Seattle: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC 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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