The Numbers Sixty-three percent of this year’s Top Shops classify themselves as a “Digital Color Shop/ Digital Printer,” up substantially from last year’s 48 percent. The sign shop designation was down from 34.52 percent in 2014 to 17 percent in 2015. Reprographic Shop was up slightly to seven percent from last year’s 5.95 percent. The other categories remain somewhat similar, with “Other” making up five percent, screen printer and service bureau each taking three percent, respectively, and commercial printer making up the last two percent. The average age of the shops in our list is 35.12 years, with our oldest founded in 1910, 106 years ago: Filmet Color Laboratories, Inc. from Cheswick, PA. This year, we have 11 shops with 50 or more years in business: Cushing (87), E.H. Teasley & Co., Inc. & Inkjet International (66), Alabama Graphics (62), Thomas Printworks (60), Candid Worldwide/Canon Litho (60), BPI Color (60), Duggal Visual Solutions (55), Vision Integrated Graphics Group (55), Visual Marking Systems (54), Sharpe Images (52), and Vision Graphics (50). Shops at the 10-year mark and under include Identity Signs (10), AlphaGraphics Carmel (10), reproHAUS (9), Harmonic Media (9), Cold Fire Signs (8), Off The Wall Signs & Graphics (7), and Chicago Print Group, Inc. (3). Comparing the top 50 shops in 2014 and 2015, the total number of locations is up only two shops this year to 149 from 147 last year. Adding in the additional 10 shops (for this year’s Top 60) we had 167 locations. Thirty-four shops only have a single location, but nine of our Top 60 list have five or more locations, with Richardson, TX-based Thomas Printworks topping out with 27, up two from last year. New York-based Diadeis GSG has 19 locations also up two, Duggal Visual Solutions has 10 up three from seven last year. Both reproHAUS and Sharpe images are up one (eight and seven, respectively). Gigantic Color, Coloredge, Inc., Color Reflections Las Vegas, and Big Mountain Imaging all have five locations a piece. Additionally, the Top 60 Shops have plans to open up 18 new locations in 2016, up four from last year’s projected number. According to the survey, 58 percent of the shops produce both black-and-white and color graphics whereas the remaining 42 percent produce only color graphics. As an average, 52.59 TOTAL AUTOMATION – Router with automatic bit changer – Automatic QR-code capture – Tandem operation, semi and fully automated material handling – Wide range of tool options – Fully modular, upgradeable – Non-stop cutting, finishing – Unsurpassed productivity percent of the top shops’ output is wide-format (36-96 inches in width). Grand-format (96-inches plus) grabs the next largest share with 22.71 percent. Medium-format (24-35 inches) has 14.86 percent of the share, leaving small-format (14-inches and smaller documents) the remaining 9.84 percent. Application-wise things have remained pretty similar to last year’s report. Banners and signs take up the lion’s share of the work, with shops reporting that it has nearly 20 percent of the overall graphics mix (19.23 percent) with the retail/POP displays and signs (including floor graphics) the next in line with 14.41 percent. The next largest category is exhibit and trade show graphics (8.25 percent) followed closely behind by fleet and vehicle graphics (7.67 percent), specialty printing & graphics (7.18 percent), building signs (6.08 percent), and engineering drawings (5.99 percent). Fabric and textile graphics is on the rise, up from last year’s numbers to 5.59 percent. Rounding out the rest of the applications we have: Décor printing (5.17), posters (4.9 percent), backlit display graphics (4.8 percent), other (4.26 percent), billboards and building wraps (3.43 percent), and fine art and museum graphics (3.05 percent). See us at ISA 2016 April 21-23, Booth 2171 www.zund.com infous@zund.com T: 414-433-0700 For more information, visit PrintingNews.com/10008759 PrintingNews.com Wide-Format & Signage | April 2016 17
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