The printing business, operating out of the back of a commercial building at 14 Urbanstrasse, became W. Kohlhammer Verlag and was funded by proceeds from the bathhouse until it was closed in 1890.

[3][non-primary source needed] Employees of Kohlhammer joined those of other Stuttgart-based companies in early 2016 to petition the mayor to abate traffic congestion hindering their operations inside the city.

That year, the company opened a new office and subsidiary, Kohlhammer Druck, in Wangen im Allgäu.

[8] In 2019, it moved to a paper packaging system developed with Hugo Beck Maschinenbau GmbH, which is more environmentally friendly and durable than the foil previously used.

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