The Key Printing And Binding

these guys (Danya & team) at The Key binding are the best book binding guys in the bay area. they did an outstanding job on my portfolio books. they are very professional from beginning to end of the process. they are extremely friendly, flexible, considered, knowledgeable and worth every penny! i will highly recommend them for their superb services and professionalism to my school mates, friends, family and anyone that needs book binding services.

I found The Key on Unilocal,and now that Danya and Lou and the rest of the crew have completed the photo album I requested, I am writing to lend my voice to the resounding chorus of praise for their beautiful work. I commissioned a relatively small project (a wedding album), yet throughout the process The Key staff made me feel like I was their best and only customer. Danya met with me multiple times to help me choose the right styling, fabric, etc. She worked with me on price, and rushed my order to meet my timing. I picked up the album this morning, and I gasped when I saw it: so much richer and more beautiful that I ever could have hoped for. These guys are a treasure, and I cannot wait to visit them at their new location on Park Blvd. in a few weeks.

Always awesome, great quality work and customer service all around!
They’ve been printing all the business cards, fliers, postcards, and price tags for the store I manage for at least the five years.
They’ve even helped me out with a few emergency rush orders, thanks guys!
Even used them for some personal DJ event fliers, there always good!
Oh they do great art work to if you aren’t on the creative side.

Danya and Austyn are amazing! I’ve had three books bound here, two perfect bound and one signature bound hardcover. The craft on all three was outstanding, and the prices very reasonable.
Start by emailing or calling to discuss your project, and they will help you with anything you need to know. Great experience, great product; I’ll be going back to the Key again and again.

These guys know what they’re doing!
I had my portfolio bound here and the end product was, for lack of a better word, PERFECT. I expected for my portfolio to look great, but wow. it looked waaaaaaay awesome.
You need to call for an appointment to get things started. I was Austin’s client (I’m sure the others are great as well) and he guided me through all what was needed, what colors, binding types were available and so on, regarding the cover of my portfolio. I printed and cropped my own pages, so I handed them my part of the process. The turnaround is about two weeks, so plan ahead! Two weeks later, I picked up my portfolio and my jaw dropped. The quality was clean and professional, and it was exactly what I imagined. My fellow classmates, teacher and director loved the binding as well.
I recommend this to anyone in need for their work to be bound. The price is a tad steep but it’s all worth it in the end. I will definitely work with them again!

I had a consultation with Danya today and although I haven’t had any work done by The Key personally, I know many people that have, all with beautiful results.
All of the samples she showed me are meticulously crafted and beautifully done. Danya was very knowledgeable and gave me a zero-​pressure consultation concerning my options. It’s obvious they know what they’re doing here!

Talk about an art of printing… these guys are masters and their work is exquisite! We had our business cards made here. They were specially die-​cut and look so cool. I looked at other projects they had done and it was even more over the top beautiful, from foil stamping to gorgeous custom product boxes. I highly recommend the Key!

The Key is amazing. Danya was extremely helpful and personable and put me at ease with all of my concerns/​questions. She is extremely knowledgeable and offered great suggestions regarding book cloth choices, foils and binding techniques. I recently got my first book bound there and it turned out beautifully. I’m going back to have my thesis and portfolios bound there as well. I have complete trust in their work and the process was extremely easy. Wonderful wonderful business.

An amazing team of bookbinders that offer you more than just great quality and service, but piece of mind.
While preparing my graduation portfolio I was stressed, frazzled, and overall a bitch to deal with, yet Ivar and Danya were total sweethearts to me through out going above and beyond to answer my questions about both binding and things outside the spectrum of their duties like my printing options at home and book cloth choices outside of their shop. They also were great in giving me on the spot critiques (at my request of course) of some of my work.
Through all my stress and doubts they assured me my book would come out looking amazing, and you know what, it did! I almost cried when I saw my final portfolios (mind you I was running on no sleep for about 3 days) as they looked so perfect, better than I had even imagined.
In the end I came out with a portfolio I was blissfully happy with and that looked positively amazing! I would recommend them to anyone looking to get something printed or bound. They love the work they do, are amazingly knowledgeable about it, and the passion they have for it really shows in the outcome of the product.

I was recommended to The Key by numerous classmates and colleagues for their exquisite and vast options for custom hand done binding.
I recently got back my first hard cover signature bound book from them, and I couldn’t be more happy with the result. Not to mention how helpful and friendly they are to answer questions and be flexible with my schedule.
They also offer small run offset printing and design, as well as a plethora of embellishment techniques from embossing, hot-​stamp foils, and die cutting. These people are serious craftsmen. I will not even bother looking for others for my next project.