Our Approach

We strive to provide our customers with an easy and fun approach to promoting themselves, whether it be for their Business, School, Teams, Band or just creating a fun shirt for themselves!

Our Story

When the boys basketball team at Fullerton IV Elementary School in Roseburg needed uniforms in 1976, mother and seamstress Carolyn Kemp volunteered for the task. She made the pattern and distributed it to the other moms, who made shorts and shirts for their boys.
Kemp realized the uniforms needed the school logo and numbers. She decided she could do that also. She and her husband, Gene Kemp, traveled to Portland to a screen printing business to learn. They returned home with a squeegee, can of ink and a board, and applied the logo and numbers to the uniforms in their garage. “That’s how we got started,” Carolyn Kemp said.

Now Prints Charming Screenprinting & Embroidery is a successful business in downtown Roseburg with grown sons Rick and Randy acting as part owners and operators. The business has also expanded beyond uniforms, targeting print projects for companies, events and promotions. Logos, designs, words and names can be printed or embroidered on a variety of items from clothes to pens.
“I’ve printed everything from calculators with tiny names on it to horse blankets,” said Randy Kemp. “Pretty much anything that can be printed or sewn – we do it,” he said.

The business also bought an engraving company in the late 1990’s, therefore features engraving as well.
Randy Kemp said the company has been continually expanding over the year and not just by the products they offer. Prints Charming began in one section of a large building off Main Street and is currently in the process of acquiring the entire location. “We started with the one side and then we bought the side part and then the corner store, so we’ve got the whole building. We’ve got three addresses,” said Randy Kemp.
The bigger space also fits a bigger crew. In addition to Rick and Randy Kemp, Prints Charming has approximately 10 other employees, both full time and part time.

“What we do puts smiles on people’s faces,” Carolyn Kemp said. “They’re happy. We don’t have customers go out of here unhappy.”
Hawks & Co. Realtors in Roseburg has purchased printed promotional items from Prints Charming for years, according to David Hawks. “They’re just a great business,” he said. “They’re always happy to help us any way they can. They’re fast and friendly with their service.”

Rick Kemp, who works on art design, said it is fun to work with a customer who comes in with an idea to create an attractive look. “When we see people around town wearing clothes that we’ve printed on, it’s pretty neat,” he said.

Back when the Kemps obtained their business license and started filling orders in a garage, they named their business Umpqua Emblems. In the first couple of years, Gene Kemp continued to work as a manager at Gove’s Market on Diamond Lake Boulevard in Roseburg and then helped Carolyn with screen-printing at night and on weekends.
After almost two years in their garage, the Kemps opened a small retail T-shirt shop on Jackson Street in downtown Roseburg. A year later in 1979, there was enough printing work that Gene Kemp left the grocery business and devoted himself to the developing family business. It expanded again in 1980 when the Kemps moved a couple doors up Jackson Street to a larger space.
Over the next couple of years, Rick Kemp, a 1981 Roseburg High graduate, and Randy Kemp, a 1982 RHS grad, joined the family business.
In the mid-80s, the Kemps opened a casual clothing business, Bottoms Up Jeans and Shirt Shop, in the 600 block of Jackson Street. In 1987, the family purchased Sun Printing, an offset printing business on Main Street. But after a couple years of spreading themselves between the stores, the Kemps decided to bring their three businesses together under one roof. At the same time, they gave their business a new name — Prints Charming — and dropped the offset printing work.
The business was incorporated in 2000 with Rick and Randy added as board members and partners.
“Like any family we have some arguments, but we’re focused on the same goal,” said Randy Kemp. “I like working with family and for family. It’s better than working for somebody else.”

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