As a team, we live for creativity. We’re constantly drawing, sketching ideas, and journaling. But we all shared the same deep frustration: our best ideas were getting trapped.

They were trapped in our phones, buried in camera rolls, or lost in old chat threads.

Angela, our financial lead, would sketch a beautiful owl, or Aidan, our CEO, would draft a clever koala drawing. We'd share them, love them for a moment, and then... they'd vanish, forgotten after the next meeting. Our digital creations felt temporary, and we desperately wanted a way to make them tangible, to hold them, paste them into a physical journal, or pin them to our walls. And to remember all the great things we did together, as a team.

Frustrated, we tried the solutions that already existed. Mark, an analyst on our team, pointed out what we all knew: we could just print them.

But we quickly hit a wall.

Using a regular printer felt like a chore. It was slow, bulky, and wasted an entire sheet of paper for one small sketch. Portable thermal printers were the right size, but their blurry 75 DPI resolution turned our detailed art into an unrecognizable smudge.

We were stuck. We wanted the quality of a regular printer with the portability and speed of a thermal one. The perfect middle ground didn't exist.

So, we decided to build it.

Monopress is the solution we always wanted. It combines the crystal-clear, 300 DPI quality of a high-end printer with the go-anywhere convenience of a device smaller than your hand.

It’s designed to instantly print your high-quality, black & white drawings, notes, and inspirations, finally freeing your ideas from their digital prisons.

After months of hard work and designing prototype after prototype, Monopress officially launched on November 12, 2024. We built it to solve our own problem, and we hope it helps you bring your creations to life, too.

Thank you for reading our story. We can't wait to see what you'll create.