March 2026 Business Spotlight - Old Pioneer Press

Old Pioneer Press first came about in 2003 after my father passed away and gave me all of his printing equipment. He initially started printing in 1967. I remember in my younger years working many hours as a family and having printing presses in our garage and some rooms in our house. He later started "Pioneer Press" in SLC. After my father's passing, we started printing in our home and then gradually moved to Main Street here in Santaquin in 2010.  This is after having many other careers and businesses, one of them being "Pioneer Pizza" on Santaquin Main Street next to where Ivanovs Market is. We have really enjoyed our history of small business here in this quaint little town. Like all businesses, we've had our ups and downs but have always come through. The building we are in is one of the oldest buildings in Santaquin. Brigham Young gave several discourses right in front of our building. 

We do all kinds of printing and book binding and are starting to branch more into hardback books and have helped many people create family heritage books and family histories. We have a team of editors, Amy and Beverly, who have helped people from beginning to end and have inspired many people to write their stories, histories and novels that would normally not be published.

One claim to fame was my boy's baseball coach who told me a story when he was young about a big red bike he wanted so badly and all the crazy things he did to earn the money for it. I turned to him and said "You need to write a book, and I know someone who can help you do that." He smiled, knowing I had a printing business and said "Yeah, I've been starting to write it."  
His book turned out to be a bestseller and is in most of the Elementary Schools here in Utah. The name of the book is "The Big Red Bike" by J. Tims. 

Amy started here in 2012 and learned many layout and design skills from Beverly. They both are wonderful at what they do, keeping the business running and helping people with their projects and books.

We are happy to be here to serve our community and make people's dreams come true. 

Thank you,

Kevin Kraut, Owner