Copy Centers & Online Printing Services Industry Competitors

AlphaGraphics wants to be the beginning -- and the end -- of printing services. The franchise company provides print-related and digital publishing services through some 300 shops in over 10 countries. Besides printing and copying, AlphaGraphics also offers graphic design, corporate identity, and sales materials consultation....

Document Security Systems caters to those who are insecure about their security, particularly on paper. The company develops anti-counterfeiting products. Document Security Systems' offerings include technology that prevents documents from being accurately scanned or copied and authentication coding that can be used in conjunction with a handheld reader to verify that a document is genuine....

The International Center for Entrepreneurial Development (ICED) is a holding company offering franchise opportunities in the computer education, health care, and the mail center and printing industries. ICED offers a number of franchise brands including Kwik Kopy, Parcel Plus, and Women's Health Boutique....

Mimeo provides digital document printing, binding, and delivery services to locations nationwide from a centralized plant. Customers place and proof orders via the Web, with production facilities located in Memphis, Tennesse near DHL, FedEx, and UPS hubs to ensure a quick delivery....

Minuteman Press International wants to be the first in line for your printing business. The company franchises full-service quick printing centers, offering graphic design, typesetting, and printing. Minuteman Press International provides franchisees with equipment, training, supplies, and marketing services as well as start-up financing options....

They love the smell of ink in the morning. PrintingForLess.com provides color printing services through an online ordering system. The company prints brochures, business cards, newsletters, stationery, booklets, postcards, and mailers. It targets small and home businesses, offering customers online quotes, orders, and proofing....

Tangent Communications (formerly Documedia Solutions) is a digital printing and software business that provides electronic marketing services. The company digitally prints marketing brochures for direct mailing to customers. It hosts an online system called Toolkit that lets companies choose templates to create promotional materials geared towards local markets....

Think fast! Allegra Network franchises quick printing centers under a number of names, including Allegra Print & Imaging, American Speedy Printing Centers, Speedy Printing Centers, Instant Copy, Insty-Prints, and Zippy Print. Allegra has more than 600 centers in Canada, the US, and the UK....

Elateral tackles the problem of online printing head-on. The company offers a suite of Web-based tools that allow clients to create, modify, and approve visual marketing communications documents and order production and delivery from printers. Its Elateral MSP family of collaborative applications, which targets the production of advertising and marketing materials (such as brochures), can be used to connect departments within a corporate organization or to connect companies with graphic design firms and suppliers....

A unit of express delivery giant FedEx, FedEx Office and Print Services (formerly FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services) has duplicated its business formula many times. The company operates about 1,960 business service centers in the US and 10 other countries worldwide....

My Lords and Ladies! Franchise Services is a holding company for the franchise operations of Sir Speedy and PIP Printing quick-print chains. Other Franchise Services offerings are TeamLogic IT, which provides computer maintenance and repair services to small and mid-size businesses, and inkTone, a seller of remanufactured inkjet and toner desktop printer cartridges....

Postal Instant Press has about 400 quick printing franchises that operate under the name PIP Printing and Document Services. The PIP stores offer offset and digital printing of business items such as brochures, newsletters, signs, stationery, and direct mail pieces....

Gallant knights of printing, Sir Speedy rounds your table with more than 1,000 franchise locations in some 25 countries worldwide, including more than 400 Sir Speedy franchises about 40 US states and the District of Columbia. The shops offer printing, graphic design, mailing, document management, and finishing (collating, assembly, binding) services, primarily to corporate and business clients....

VistaPrint provides online self-service printing for small businesses and consumers. The company's products include business cards (both free and premium), labels, stationery, magnets, invitations, announcements, brochures, postcards, and holiday items; it also offers mailing-related and creative services designed to assist customers' marketing efforts....