By DPS Magazine Staff
In this issue we recognize companies that stood out to readers throughout 2023. Our annual Top 30 award recipients are selected based on engagement with our lead-generation site, DPSMagDirect.com, which tracks reader interest with editorial mentions and advertising within the year.
We’ve asked the Top 30 vendors and five honorable mentions to provide a company overview, as well as list up to three key products that serve the space. The product highlights and associated INFO#s are available in a chart within the article on page 22.
Above: Muller Martini offers its SigmaLine Compact finishing solutions.
Aleyant
Aleyant empowers print businesses with software and support to eliminate costly manual processes and foster profitable growth. Its automation print software reduces manual touches, errors, and production time for your print shop. With it, you can connect online design to business-to-consumer and business-to-business online print stores. Connect your print store to estimating, production management, customer service, and prepress automation. Use Aleyant software products separately, together, or with third-party applications.
BOBST
A supplier of substrate processing, printing, and converting equipment, and services for the label, flexible packaging, folding carton, and corrugated board industries. Founded in 1890 by Joseph Bobst in Lausanne, Switzerland, BOBST has a presence in more than 50 countries, runs 19 production facilities in 11 countries, and employs more than 5,600 people around the world.
Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $29.4 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. as of 2023 has ranked in the top-five overall in U.S. patents granted for 38 consecutive years. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility.
Crawford Technologies
Crawford Technologies is a global leader in providing extensive solutions for organizations seeking more effective communication with their clients, particularly in the realm of billing invoices and customer communications management. Its offerings encompass comprehensive solutions for high-volume transactional workflows, as well as cutting-edge technology facilitating seamless migration to digital delivery and preference management. It is recognized as a leader in ensuring accessibility, usability, and inclusivity of business documents for clients.
Customer’s Canvas
The complete web to print toolkit designed to streamline the creation of personalized designs online. Customer’s Canvas integrates into any existing or new website, allowing companies to build ordering workflows for print and packaging products of virtually any complexity.
Duplo U.S.A. Corporation
Established in 1979, Duplo USA Corporation is the leading provider of innovative print finishing solutions for the graphic arts. Duplo continuously strives to bring the latest in finishing automation to market and introduced the first all-in-one slitter/cutter/creaser, air suction collating and bookletmaking system, and tabletop folder, as well as the compact and sensory-driven raised spot UV coater.
eProductivity Software
eProductivity Software is the Productivity Software Business of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. It is an independent global software company after being acquired by an affiliate of Symphony Technology Group, a private equity partner to market-leading companies in software, data, and analytics.
Epson
Epson America, Inc. offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for business, commercial print, graphic arts photographic, signage, direct-to-garment, and fabric production.
Fiery
Fiery is a leading independent provider of digital front ends (DFEs) and workflow solutions for the digital print industry. With a customer base of over two million DFEs sold globally, its print servers and workflow tools deliver fast performance, stunning color, and exceptional print quality across commercial print, packaging, sign and display graphics, ceramics, building materials, textiles, and other specialty print applications. For the past 30-plus years, Fiery has led the industry with customer-focused innovation that sets the standard for productivity, quality, integration, and automation for real business results.
Graphic Whizard
Graphic Whizard is a North American company founded in 1987 with dealers located throughout Canada, the U.S., and abroad offering a variety of print finishing equipment suitable for all shop sizes and budgets. It specializes in automating post-press processes to maximize time and profit in digital print workflows. Bindery/print finishing solutions for your workplace include slit/cut/crease, laminating, perfect binding, digital die cutting, numbering, folding, and UV coating.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg has been a reliable and highly innovative partner to the global printing industry for more than 160 years. It helps to define the future trends in our industry with state-of-the-art technologies and innovative business ideas for commercial, label, and packaging customers. With the largest service coverage in the industry, it offers technical, financial, and performance services to ensure customers are getting the most from their equipment.
HP Inc.
HP Inc. is a global technology leader and creator of solutions that enable people to bring their ideas to life and connect to the things that matter most. Operating in more than 170 countries, HP delivers a range of innovative and sustainable devices, services, and subscriptions for personal computing, printing, three-dimensional printing, hybrid work, and gaming.
HYBRID Software
HYBRID Software is an enterprise software development company focused on productivity tools for the graphic arts. The company’s CLOUDFLOW workflow, PACKZ and STEPZ editors, and print quality solutions offer advantages that include native PDF workflows, enterprise cloud solutions, scalable technology with low cost of ownership, and direct integration with MIS solutions and output devices. These products are used by thousands of customers worldwide in all areas of prepress and print, including labels and packaging, folding cartons, corrugated, wide format, and digital printing. HYBRID Software is a subsidiary of Hybrid Software Group.
Infigo
Infigo is the leading provider of personalized print and ecommerce solutions, successfully delivering an innovative web to print platform that is supported by a world-class team. Its fully configurable and scalable solution allows businesses in a range of industries, including printing, packaging, and labeling, to create uniquely branded ecommerce storefronts with a powerful personalization editor. Its aim is to simplify the entire ordering and fulfillment process, through partner integrations and automation.
InSoft Automation
InSoft Automation, a pure-play technology company, develops high-performance software for the printing industry. Advanced algorithms and sophisticated mathematical techniques generate cost-based, print-ready layouts and order winning quotes. Powered by smart nesting engine for folding cartons and rigid boxes, powerful ganging for large format printers and intelligent imposition for book and labels.
INX Digital
INX Digital drives growth with inkjet technologies that deliver globally. Backed by a highly specialized R&D team and a global network, its premium quality inkjet inks are designed to match virtually every printhead type and printing system. Its chemists, engineers, and software experts focus on inkjet formulations, and printing and ink management systems. Its digital printing solutions and integration services can optimize an entire inkjet system.
Kodak
Kodak is a leading manufacturer in commercial print and advanced materials and chemicals. With 79,000 patents earned over 130 years, the company believes in the power of technology and science to enhance what the world sees and creates. Its innovative, award-winning products and customer-first approach, make it the partner of choice for commercial printers worldwide. Kodak is committed to environmental stewardship, including industry leadership in developing sustainable solutions for print.
Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions. With a comprehensive portfolio of production print offerings it delivers the latest innovations in printing, applications, and expertise. Its All Covered IT Services division offers a range of IT strategy, support, and network security solutions across all verticals.
MBO America
MBO America offers an array of cutting edge, high-performance finishing solutions for inkjet and other digital print production environments. Whether cutsheet or roll-fed, inline or nearline, commercial print or packaging, MBO America offers solutions expertise to make your production process more efficient. It has expanded its product portfolio to contain sheetfed finishing and folding, web finishing and folding, die cutting, and pharmaceutical literature finishing. It specializes in automation, robotics, and one-step production systems that reduce labor, increase productivity, and provide a competitive advantage.
Muller Martini Corporation
Muller Martini is one of the world’s largest producers of print finishing solutions for commercial and book printers, trade binderies, newspapers, and digital book manufacturers. Its groundbreaking Smart Factory: Finishing 4.0 platform delivers innovative systems, software, and machines that seamlessly accommodate offset, digital, and hybrid printed products while optimizing workflow. With U.S. headquarters in Hauppauge, NY, Muller Martini’s extensive sales and support team provides responsive service to printers and binderies nationwide.
Presswise by SmartSoft
PressWise by SmartSoft provides a single browser-based print management system that automates your entire workflow, including online orders, custom walk-ins, or orders entered by representatives in the field.
Ricoh
Ricoh is a provider of integrated digital services and print and imaging solutions designed to support digital transformation of workplaces and workspaces and optimize business performance.
Rochester Software Associates
Rochester Software Associates (RSA) is a leader in managing printing workflows and provider of prepress, transform, output management, and web to print software solutions to support digital print production. For over 35 years, customers have used RSA solutions to turn printing into productivity, automating their print centers and seamlessly converging printing from data center, in-plant, and distributed enterprise print environments—to improve workflows, increase productivity, and make customers happy.
Rollem International
Founded in 1963, Rollem International is a leading distributor of die cutting, slitting, scoring, creasing, perforating, semi-slitting, collating, and card pack production machinery. It provides printers with automated, high-quality finishing equipment enabling them to deliver quality products to their demanding customers. The Insignia die cutting system offers ease of operation and quick changeovers ideal for folded cartons, packaging, gift cards, and more, plus, it’s proudly made in the U.S. Jetstream is our bidirectional slitting, scoring, perforating system, ideal for postcards, business cards, shelf tags and, with a folder/gluer, it is a fully automated direct mail finishing system. The Champion 990 is our entry-level model delivering slitting, scoring, and perforating for lower-mid volume runs. Rollem’s experienced team addresses each customer’s finishing situations to help them improve production and increase profits.
Signs365
Signs365 is a grand format, trade-only wholesale printer. It offers a variety of full-color, high-quality printed products all produced in 24 hours. $10 Overnight Anywhere shipping is available on all products. Signs365—we are only trade only!
Standard Finishing Systems
Standard Finishing Systems, founded in 1910, is a leading supplier of print finishing systems and paper handling equipment. Based in Andover, MA, Standard partners with world-class equipment manufacturers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions across the U.S. and Canada. Ranging from desktop to floor models to fully integrated solutions that process printed rolls or cut sheets, Standard’s feeding and finishing solutions deliver outstanding performance and ultimate flexibility for the fast-changing offset, digital, and inkjet print markets.
THERM-O-TYPE
THERM-O-TYPE digital finishing products include the Glue-Tech Sheet-to-Sheet gluer, the NSF Elite, Excel & Ultra die cutting/foil stamping/embossing presses, RDC-Flex rotary die cutter, Zip cutter/slitter/creaser/finisher models, RAS-mc right angle slitters, and traditional business card slitters. THERM-O-TYPE also produces foil fusers and handfed thermography equipment. THERM-O-TYPE has been supporting the printing industry with equipment, supplies, and technical expertise since 1977.
Valloy Incorporated
Valloy Incorporated is an 20-year old Korean venture, international technology publishing company for various products and solutions in the visualization and digital printing market. Valloy means value alloyers. The company was founded by international marketing and digital imaging professionals who have tens of years experience in development and marketing for digital imaging algorithm, software, and devices. It performs research and marketing globally by fusion of different innovational technologies and remarkable products for the pin-pointed market demand in this visual world, with helping digital convergence in signage, textile, decoration, label and packaging, and industrial markets.
Xeikon
Xeikon, a division of Flint Group, is a long-standing leader and innovator in digital printing technology. Grounded in the principles of quality, flexibility, and sustainability, Xeikon designs, develops, and delivers digital color presses for label and packaging applications as well as graphic arts and commercial printing. These printing machines work with different imaging technologies, open workflow software, and application-specific consumables.
Xerox
For more than 100 years, Xerox has continually redefined the workplace experience. Harnessing its leadership position in office and production print technology, it has expanded into software and services to sustainably power the hybrid workplace of today and tomorrow. Today, Xerox continues its legacy of innovation to deliver client-centric and digitally-driven technology solutions and meet the needs of today’s global, distributed workforce. From the office to industrial environments, the company’s differentiated business and technology offerings and financial services are essential workplace technology solutions that drive success for its clients. At Xerox, we make work, work.
Honorable Mentions
We also want to recognize the five runner-up companies that just missed making the Top 30.
Durst Image Technology US LLC
Durst Image Technology U.S. is a manufacturer of professional wide and grand format digital UV inkjet printers for today’s imaging industry. Durst products are designed for performance, reliability, and longevity offering high print quality, productivity, flexibility, and efficiency.
Nobelus
Nobelus distributes a variety of specialty laminates and films along with the highest quality laminating systems in the industry. It serves a range of clients across the print, publishing, photo, packaging, and prime label markets by providing industry leading service and support. Nobelus solutions are driven by continuous innovation, ingenuity, and a desire to see our customers succeed. In every endeavor, it is committed to enhancing people, partners, and the world’s brands.
RISO, Inc.
RISO, Inc., headquartered in Woburn, MA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, one of Japan’s leading manufacturers and distributors of high-speed inkjet printers for the production print market. Its compact design and heatless imaging system reliably produces millions of variable data prints at speeds of up to 320 images per minute (ppm) or 160 ppm duplexed. RISOs are environmentally friendly, inexpensive to operate, and easy to use.
Screen Americas
SCREEN Americas, a SCREEN Graphic and Precision Solutions group company, provides a range of solutions to meet graphic communications needs with a strong focus on production-class inkjet printing technology. For more than 50 years, SCREEN Americas has created satisfied customers in commercial, transactional, publishing, direct mail, label, folding carton, and flexible packaging by delivering the latest innovations to help printers grow their businesses.
Sharp
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) helps businesses achieve Simply Smarter work by helping companies manage workflow efficiently, create immersive and engaging environments, and increase productivity. SIICA offers a full suite of secure printer and copier solutions, professional and commercial visual displays and projectors, software management and productivity software, and markets durable Dynabook laptops.
Readers’ Choose
Congratulations to this year’s Top 30 Readers’ Choice and honorable mention winners. These companies help push the industry forward, promoting innovation and disruption among their competitors and clients. We encourage readers to visit dpsmagdirect.com throughout the year to learn more about the companies and the products covered in print and online.
Mar2024, DPS Magazine
