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The Print Shop Where the Homework Has a Customer
At Cal Poly, ten students do not merely study printing. They quote the job, run the machine, answer the customer and live with the result.
The Print Factory Bet That One Vendor Could Print the Whole Brand
A business card, a tent and an embroidered polo look like separate errands. This Ontario print shop built its proposition on making them one conversation.
The Marketing Agency With a Loading Dock
Integrated Marketing Services built an agency around the least glamorous part of branding: making sure the idea survives contact with ink, vinyl, deadlines and the loading dock.
AdArt knows a good idea has to stand up
A retail display has to do more than look good in a presentation. The AdArt Company turns artwork into physical objects, then tackles the packing, shipping, and installation that get them in front of shoppers.
PrintMyStuff and the business of making the awkward thing
A Riverside printer makes everything from business cards to mahogany theater signs. Its most revealing product is the practical answer to a request that does not fit neatly into a shopping cart.
Astek makes walls worth a second look
From Hollywood sets to hotel corridors, Astek turns artwork into surfaces. Its real craft is getting an imaginative idea through the decidedly physical business of ink, material, color, and scale.
Colorprint puts a quarter of its profits back into the neighborhood
The Burlingame printer says it has given more than $307,000 to local charities. Behind that number is a family experience, a quarterly promise, and the everyday business of getting ink onto paper and mail out the door.
All Printing Services sells the part you cannot upload
At this family-run Encino print shop, the pitch is personal: help with the design, a plan for the deadline, and everything from business cards to a trade-show booth.
Vintage 99 makes wine labels worth picking up
Foil, texture, and a very unforgiving production line: inside the California printer turning winery artwork into something a shopper can hold.
Moyy wants your box to be worth opening
The Hamilton packaging maker pairs design with digital printing, then goes one step further: making the corrugated sheets itself. Behind the colourful boxes is a practical bid to control quality, timing and supply.
San Diego Printers Takes the Job Beyond the Press
A brochure is only the beginning. This San Diego print shop connects design, production, packing, and mailing - with a business built around the work customers would rather hand over.
Select Imaging sells the whole job, right down to the last fold
A Dublin print shop grew from two businesses sharing space into a place to order the brochure, the mailing, the team shirts and the box. Its appeal lives in the details customers would rather hand off.
IWCO's $50 Million Bet on a Smarter Mailbox
The direct-mail company put digital presses, audience data, and postal economics into the same business. Its story shows why a better letter needs more than better copy.
MOO Made the Business Card Worth Keeping
A failed social calling card became a business built on paper, personality and letting customers choose. Twenty years after launch, MOO is taking that idea into branded merchandise - with some hard lessons from the factory floor.
ePac Flexible Packaging
Most packaging plants reward scale. ePac built its network for the awkward stage before scale - when a growing brand needs five flavors, sharp graphics and another shipment before the old industry can finish making plates.
Custom Ink
Custom Ink is an online retailer that lets anyone design and order custom apparel and promotional products - t-shirts, hoodies, hats, drinkware and swag - without order minimums or design software. Founded in 2000 in a Virginia basement, the company built an easy online Design Lab plus human design and support help, turning group orders for teams, schools, businesses, nonprofits and events into a business that has grown to roughly $500 million in revenue. It has since expanded into corporate swag management through acquisitions like Swag.com and Printfection.