About

Mission

Troubador Press is dedicated to preserving the past while sharing it with the future.

Revived in 2025, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina near Asheville, Troubador Press is a archival micro-press and focuses on digital preservation services that are dedicated to the technical rescue and revitalization of at-risk creative history. We bridge the gap between decaying analog archives and the digital future by combining museum-grade imaging with independent publishing.

About

Originally founded in 1956, Troubador Press was a pioneer of the "Golden Age" of independent publishing. Troubador Press started the “adult” color book long before the modern craze, they were also at one point the largest publisher of beat poetry in the United States. Today, we have evolved into a specialized micro-press and preservation digital services company. While we honor the legacy of founders Malcolm Whyte and Brady Harris, our modern focus is the preservation of the catalog they built.

We operate as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) sitting at the intersection of technology and history. Using planetary imaging systems. Which is the same technology trusted by the National Archives. This helps capture the works at 600 DPI native resolution, ensuring that every pen stroke is preserved for the next century.

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What Troubador Press Offers

Digital Preservation Services

We provide FADGI-compliant digitization for fragile manuscripts, rare books, and historical records. Our "white-glove" protocol ensures that at-risk items are handled with zero mechanical stress, creating a permanent digital surrogate before the original analog material degrades.

Archival Publishing

We don't just reprint; we restore. Using our high-fidelity digital masters, we produce remastered editions of classic works, bringing lost creative artifacts back into the hands of researchers, artists, and collectors worldwide. We do not use AI upscaling.

We prioritize true-to-source fidelity over artificial enhancement. We strictly reject AI upscaling, as algorithms often smooth over original textures and "hallucinate" details that weren't there. Instead, our process relies on high-resolution CCD raw scans followed by manual restoration to remove age-related damage like stains or foxing. By avoiding "computer guesses," we ensure our remastered classic editions remain faithful to the artist's original intent, preserving the authentic line work and paper character for future researchers and creators.

Legacy Management

Troubador Press serves as a strategic partner for estates and institutions, offering specialized record rescue for collections that are too fragile for industrial scanning warehouses.

Join the Journey

Troubador Press is more than a publisher, it is a preservation project dedicated to keeping a vital part of creative history alive. Whether revisiting beloved classics or exploring archival releases for the first time, readers are invited to take part in continuing the legacy.