About Us
Opening in 1915, The Earl Hays Press was founded by none other than Earl Hays himself in Hollywood, California, creating a legacy within the motion picture industry that has succeeded for over a hundred years. In the 1980s, we moved to Sun Valley, California and are now a third generation family-owned business.
We carry more than 25,000 stock printed items available to the movie industry on request. We specialize in both modern and period items, including license plates, newspapers, books, driver’s licenses, passports, credit cards, product packaging, and so much more. There is no end to what we can create.
Earl Hays and his employees working in the Hollywood, California location.
Ralph Hernandez scrutinizes a sample book of newspaper banners.
Bill Bailey with modern copy of McGuffrey's Reader
One of our platen presses, still in regular use.
A line of type being prepared for use on the printing presses.
Press
Adam Savage’s Tested: Where Hollywood's Printed Props Are Made!
July 12, 2023
Why the same fake cigarettes are used in TV and movies
by Chris Snyder | April 17, 2020
If you pay close attention to TV shows and movies, you'll start to notice the same fake brands being used over and over again. And one of the most reused brands is Morley Cigarettes…
dose. | The Masters of Fake News in Hollywood
March 2017
We get to the bottom of where fake news actually comes from by exploring the top prop shop for fake news in Hollywood. From newspaper to signs to ID's in the pictures - Earl Hays Press is the place we go.
BBC | Earl Hays Press: Where Hollywood gets fake money and newspapers
February 23, 2017
Do some of these faces seem familiar?
Many of the small details - newspapers, licence plates, cereal boxes - of Oscar-nominated films are made in one place. Writer James Bartlett takes a rare tour of a Hollywood factory of fake.
Semi-retired owner Ralph Hernandez, Sr, starts the tour of Earl Hays Press, an unassuming building near the Burbank airport, by showing me some souvenirs in his office…