About us

Graham grew up in Masterton in the 1960’s where he served an apprenticeship as a letterpress machinist. He retrained on offset printing as technology evolved and later moved to Auckland with his wife Rachel. Then in the 1980’s Graham set up GTO Printers. In his young adult years Graham came to a personal faith in God through Jesus Christ.

Graham has experience in most aspects of the printing trade. He is proud to have won a number of Pride in Print awards in recent years, and won the Supreme Award in 2014 where his submission was judged the best print in New Zealand.

He has trained two ladies as letterpress printers, both running successful printshops, and is still passionate about anything related to letterpress printing. He is always happy to have visitors to his printshop, which you could almost call a working museum!

In 2018 Graham created the Inkiana Judd character, someone who values preserving the important invention of letterpress printing, and in 2021 decided to rebrand the business as Inkiana Press.

Inkiana Press takes an environmentally conscious approach to printing, and endeavours to make all print processes as clean and green as possible. Letterpress printing uses environmentally friendly inks and washes and the trade in general is very environmentally aware. Our Crane Lettra boards are rag based and considered very eco friendly. We use vegetable oil based inks, and encourage the use of recycled papers and boards.