Copy Max

This place is the best for quick copies, scanning, printing, etc. Super quick, super cheap, super convenient.
There is seriously NO REASON whatsoever to go to Kinko’s if you’re in the area. This place is 100x better.

Highly recommended. I’ve had books of sheet music in PDF format made into a double sided spiral bound booklet. I only had to hand the gentleman a USB drive with the documents, briefly describe what I wanted and was in and out inside of 20 minutes. I’ve recommended the place to others and will be back again for sure.

Excellent. Everything Lois A. said. Prices for prints and computer time are reasonable. Reliable service all the way around. Always there in a pinch. Friendly and gets the job done without a hassle.

I am making a Unilocal account just so I can give this review. I came in here in a panic, a book I had printed in Detroit to bring to Chicago Zine Fest was misprinted and I needed to reprint 25 complicated half color/​half not copies. Even though I really didn’t have my shit together they helped me get it right, at a great price, and had it in my hands in less than an hour. All my worries melted away. The service was great and it was easy to find, as well as totally affordable. Thank you so much Copy Max!!!

Pretty cheap and pretty fast if you’re needing something in a pinch that doesn’t need to look too amazing. I was forced to print wedding invitations here to meet a crazy deadline and nothing else was open on a weekend. Also, in design school, I had so many nightmarish experiences with FedEx/​Kinkos that I couldn’t bear to go in that store again. So this was good for what it was at the time.

Hooray! Great prices, great service. Double side? No problem? I printed about 75 pages worth of different documents, articles, etc. and my total came to 9.47 $. The nice guy working there helped me set up the printing and let me collate my documents with his stapler. I will definitely be back when I need to print something… having a reasonably priced place within reasonable distance from home keeps me from wasting money on a printer and ink, that will inevitably dry between prints b/​c I so rarely need printed materials. Thanks, CopyMax, keep up the great work!

I can’t say enough good things about this place. This is the opposite of going into a fedex/kinko’s type place where the people working have no idea what they are doing but charge you extra for their own incompetence. This place gets stuff DONE.
After being left in a horrible spot when an online company forgot to ship memorial programs for a funeral I was left having to come up with something on my own in the 11^th hour or risk possibly having nothing… which was not an option.
This place is awesome — high quality prints done fast. Plus — honest prices… they do not rip you off here. The person working knew exactly what needed to be done and did it without any of the confusion or hassle I am so used to dealing with at other copy places. I will never go anywhere else again for print projects. NEVER. I wish I had come here sooner. I was out of here in 25 minutes and I swear I waited that long just waiting for someone to notice me the last time I was at a Kinko’s. This is not just the best place in wicker park… it’s the best copy place I’ve gone to in the whole Chicagoland area and I’ve been to a ton. Last night I wanted to kiss this place I was so pleased!!!

This place did me right. The staff was helpful and recommended a way so that I didn’t have to pay so much when it came to getting some documents to my realtor. Only problem is that they were not listed when I googled them…

agreeing w/​above review that CopyMax on Milwaukee Ave is far and away the best non-​chain copy & print shoppe and always gets my business. use them for brief spur-​of-​the-​moment internet access too
i park on paulina st across from the jewel there, copymax has a rear entrance for that. on the days i’m one of the seeming millions riding my 2-​wheeler down Milwaukee Ave this place couldn’t be more convenient
and no finding all these services at a better price than right here

This place is great! Cheapest copies I’ve found, easy to use, and helpful friendly staff. I love the charming, small-​business feel to it. I also love that they have all the other tools I need there, like a paper cutter, long arm staplers, rubberbands to use for free, scissors, etc. If you have any questions about the machines, they’re super helpful.
5 cent copies rule.

The fact that an internet/​computer time rental place still exists anywhere on the northwest side of Chicago is worthy of some stars. The fact that I’m writing this review on my phone, about to get to work and sit on Microsoft Word all day, and will probably edit the review’s placing in a list at the library makes pay-​per-​use computing pretty obsolete.
I’m guessing the only people who still would use it on a regular basis are tourists. And how many of these are desperately looking for internet or to electronically crop a photo while shopping boutiques in Wicker Park?
I mean, besides people like me who are totally addicted to computing regardless (and who don’t really like boutiques).
Make no mistake, this is *not* an internet café. You can’t get coFFEE here but you can get coPIES (and rudimentary office supplies at cheaper prices than the Kinko’s a few blocks away). What you can also get here is relatively slow internet and computer services (like the Office suite and photoshop) pretty much down to the minute. They charge $ 6.00 per hour. But they will break it down to five minute incriments. 15 minutes, for example, is $ 1.50.
And you can do anything you want with the computer. I mean programwise. I’m sure there are certain activities that are frowned upon and they do expect you to wear pants at all times (sadly). But if there’s a site that you don’t want anyone to know about that you enjoy visiting, this might be the place to do it — not that I’d know. I swear they must have to clean these computers daily because they have to be swarming with viruses (virii for all the geeks who want to correct me) with what I’m guessing some users do.
The Boring Store is right down the street but I have to guess this is the place where the real spy stuff goes down! Except on Sundays. If they were actually open on Sunday when the library is closed, they might earn a fourth star. As it is, they’re not. But they definitely serve for file and photo cropping services in a pinch and I’m glad they’re still around even if unnecessary to probably 90% of the population.

This is the *new* location for the photocopy shop which was formerly at 1573 N. Milwaukee Ave.
I found it while walking to an event at the Elegant Mr. Gallery (@ 1355 N. Milwaukee).
This surprised me. I thought it had summarily bitten the dust when its space was sold for a convenience store.
This is the *best* non-​chain photocopy shop in Chicago. Standard 8 ½″ * 11″ B&W self-​serve copies are still only 5¢. Any number of issues of «Incendiary Words» were duplicated at its former location.
There is also Internet access available for $ 6.00 | hour.
I duplicated flyers for a Monday night presentation of mine at Risqué Café here.
It has a facsimile line at 773−252−8655.
There are two entrances. One on Milwaukee Ave., and another on Paulina Ave.
Transit options: It is one block northwest of the Division & Ashland Blue Line «L» station. You can also use the #56 Milwaukee bus, or the #9 and #X9 Ashland buses from that corner.
[Hours: Monday — Friday: 9:00 am — 8:00 pm. Saturday: 10:00 am — 7:00 pm. Sunday: Closed.]

No time for clever wordplay today.
Frankly, if you go anywhere else for copies this side of Chicago, you are a complete moron and deserve to be overcharged.
Copymax is the only place I’ll ever go when my computer is broken (again) and I need a quick run of high-​quality copies.