Crafting excellence
Premium printing, simplified

We have built our reputation on pride, precision, and genuine care. We deliver high‑quality book printing with consistency, through careful management at every stage of the process.

From pre‑press to finishing, every stage is managed with industry‑leading standards and materials to ensure your books will make a lasting impression.

Oriental Press has been setting the pace for the printing industry for over 70 years.

From small beginnings our family business has grown to become an internationally recognised premium printer. We currently export over 70 per cent of our production to over 80 countries around the globe.

Our commitment to customer satisfaction, our passion for quality, together with our wide range of printed products and services, have made us the preferred supplier to the book publishing commercial print and packaging industries.

At Oriental Press we are continually investing in the latest print technology so that our clients can benefit from cutting edge new developments together with our experience of over half a century in printing.

We also understand that good business means investing in people as well as machines. With sales and marketing offices in the Middle East and Europe, we take pride in serving our many customers around the world.

At Oriental Press we understand the importance and take seriously our responsibility to minimise the impact of our operations on the environment. We recognise the importance of sustainable sourcing and are committed to deliver on our internal social and environmental policies to successfully meet agreed global CO2 emission reduction targets.

Whatever your needs – commercial printing, books or security printing, from design stage to final delivery – we can take care of everything.

Successful businesses are built on firm foundations of trust.

Trust is the driving force that keeps our clients coming back time after time. Our well-earned reputation for excellence and reliability makes us the preferred supplier for hundreds of companies across the globe.

From simple beginnings with a single colour letterpress, to our current 44,100 square metres of modern production space in Bahrain and Dubai, we are now one of the world’s premier print organisations. Our state-of-the-art machinery and comprehensive order fulfilment capabilities allow us to offer one-stop solutions for the complete range of printing and print management assignments.

At Oriental Press we are continually exploring emerging technologies to ensure we remain leaders in our field. Our pre-press capabilities demonstrate our cutting-edge approach and our manufacturing platforms embrace integrated solutions. Combine all of this with our many years  of experience in print and you can be confident that we will deliver the highest quality and consistency on every project we undertake.

Our Companies

Oriental Press UK

Oriental Press has a dedicated sales and marketing team based in our central London office. From here, our specialist staff can liaise between you – the customer – and our plants in Dubai and Bahrain, ensuring seamless trouble-free production.

Oriental Press Dubai

Whether it’s Winnie the Pooh or a World Atlas, you’ll almost certainly own a book printed by Oriental Press. For many years, our book printing plant in Dubai has been bringing you the latest bestsellers from the biggest names in publishing. 

Our location is close to the state-of-the-art Jebel Ali port, a seamless multi-modal transport hub integrating air, sea and land global logistics.

Dubai is a central hub strategically located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and our location means we can offer considerable savings on shipping, in both time and cost, compared to our competitors in Europe and the Far East.

Oriental Press Bahrain

Blending tradition, innovation, and creativity, we make every project a showcase of precision and quality.

Our purpose-built Bahrain manufacturing complex integrates high-capacity commercial print facilities with specialised packaging capabilities to deliver world-class efficiency at every step of the production cycle. From high-stakes educational publishing to precision-engineered packaging, our facility operates under strict global compliance and quality controls.

From the moment raw materials arrive to the final stages of printing, finishing, and dispatch, we guarantee flawless execution and absolute regulatory compliance across all product sectors.

We cater to 5 mainstream business divisions

Our Delivery

Straddling the east and west, Dubai has superb transit links to all major ports around the world.  

Shipping times

Southampton – 41 days
London Gateway – 40 days
Felixstowe – 40 days
Dublin – 45 days
New York – 40 days
Sydney – 36 days
Hong Kong – 35 days

See why clients trust our capabilities