By 1907, Holmes had determined that the best way to produce large quantities of embossed pages would be to modify a regular rotary printing press—remember he was a newspaper man. He had ascertained that such modifications were feasible, but could not be completed in time for the first issue of the Ziegler. By the summer of 1907 the magazine had purchased one press, and a second press was bought that September, along with machinery to bind the magazine. This equipment was installed in the magazine's first home on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue and 53rd Street, where a four-room loft was rented.

To a sighted visitor it quickly became obvious that this was no ordinary publishing operation. There were indeed sighted women working at typewriters, but also scattered about on desks and tables were all manner of knitted items, shawls, pink and blue baby clothing, woven baskets—all made by blind people who had sent them to the magazine for sale. The Ziegler had also arranged for the large Macy's store to open a department where items made by blind people were sold at no commission.

In 1911, the magazine moved into larger premises, just a block away, on 54th Street. This was to be its home for 16 years, and it became also a home away from home for many blind people.

Blind people visiting New York, and those living or working there, knew they would be welcome to call on Mr. Holmes and the staff of the Ziegler. As one reader put it, the office was a "refuge from the turmoil of the city and a source of inspiration and hope."

In time, these premises began to prove too expensive, and in 1927 the magazine moved into a former carriage house it had purchased in Monsey, in suburban New York. The plant stayed there for 40 years, continuing production every month throughout the second world war. That was a difficult time because it was hard to obtain paper of a high-enough quality to hold the raised dots; readers often encountered holes where dots should have been. War-time shortages also made it difficult to repair and maintain the aging machinery properly.

In 1965, production of the braille edition was transferred to the Clovernook Printing House for the Blind (now known as the Clovernook Center) in Cincinnati, OH, where it is still produced. Two years later, the office was moved back to New York City, where its quarters were rented from the American Foundation for the Blind. When AFB sold its buildings in 1994, the magazine moved, in a coincidental completion of a circle, back to the very avenue on which it had started—Eighth Avenue, but 40 blocks south.