by DPS Magazine Staff
Congratulations to this year’s Readers’ Choice Top 30 winners. These vendors generated reader interest in editorial and advertisements throughout the year, including products and services surrounding digital print, packaging, and publishing.
A little over half of the winning vendors are innovators in print technology, while supporting solutions like finishing equipment and workflow tools represent the remaining companies. Each of these areas is essential to the future of print.
Top 30 Company Profiles
Here are company overviews of the Top 30 vendors and five honorable mentions. Find more information on these vendors here with the INFO#s below.
Aleyant
We empower print businesses with software and unmatched support to eliminate costly manual processes and foster profitable growth. Our 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 more than 2,000 third-party applications via direct API or Zapier. INFO# 100
Aurigma
Aurigma, Inc. is a vendor of image composition, design personalization, and prepress automation software for print service providers and marketing companies. Our software development team specializes in the image processing area and web to print related tasks for more than 20 years. INFO# 101
BW Converting
Under their Baldwin Technology brand, BW Converting manufactures industrial enhancement technology for the printing, packaging, textile, film extrusion, advanced battery, nonwovens, and other high-performance industrial applications. INFO# 102
Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. is committed to helping our customers grow by providing an integrated array of automated, productive, user friendly, and profitable solutions. With one of the broadest portfolios in the industry we develop hardware, such as digital inkjet and toner presses as well as wide format printers, workflow software, and professional services to assist a commercial printer in growing their business and profits. Canon is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. INFO# 103
Duplo USA Corporation
Established in 1979, Duplo is the leading provider of innovative print finishing solutions. Our highly efficient, modular products streamline post-press production for digital color and offset applications and perform with incredible precision that is second to none. In recent years, Duplo has expanded its product offerings to bring on demand print embellishment, packaging, and B2 finishing technologies to market. INFO# 104
eProductivity Software
eProductivity Software (ePS) is a leading global provider of industry-specific business and production software technology for the packaging and print industries. The company’s integrated and automated software offerings and print solutions are designed to enable revenue growth and drive operating and production efficiencies. With over 30 years dedicated to delivering best-in-class technology, it is the company’s deep-held philosophy that ePS succeeds when its customers thrive. INFO# 105
Epson America, Inc.
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. INFO# 106
Gelato
Gelato transforms the traditional global supply chain through industry-leading software. The company has built the world’s largest network of on-demand production that connects 130 production hubs across 32 countries, giving creators and ecommerce sellers a global reach to five billion consumers. All while emphasizing local production and distribution—creating a smarter, faster, and ‘greener’ supply chain. INFO# 107
Graphic Whizard
Starting with the manufacturing of number/perf/score machines, Graphic Whizard now supplies a broad range of bindery/print finishing equipment able to fulfill any production requirement and budget. INFO# 108
Heidelberg
Heidelberg has been a reliable and highly innovative partner to the global printing industry for more than 160 years. We are helping 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 we offer technical, financial, and performance services to ensure our customers are getting the most from their equipment. INFO# 109
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, 3D printing, hybrid work, gaming, and more. INFO# 110
Kodak
Kodak is a leading manufacturer in commercial print and advanced materials and chemicals. With 79,000 patents earned over 130 years, we believe in the power of technology and science to enhance what the world sees and creates. Our innovative, award-winning products, with our customer-first approach, make us the partner of choice for commercial printers worldwide. Kodak is committed to environmental stewardship, including industry leadership in developing sustainable solutions for print. INFO# 111
Komori America
Komori America Corporation, Rolling Meadows, IL, is a premier manufacturer of offset and digital presses for printing and packaging. Komori’s world-class technology is known for product reliability, outstanding print quality, and substrate flexibility. From unsurpassed print quality and impressively fast makeready to intuitive software, Komori is committed to the advancement of print and dedicated to helping its customers navigate the print industry’s digital transformation. INFO# 112
Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. aims to partner with clients to “Give Shape to Ideas” by supporting their digital transformation through its expansive Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio. Its business technology offerings include IT services, intelligent information management, video security solutions, and managed print services, as well as office technology and industrial and commercial print solutions. INFO# 113
MBO America/Komori Group
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 can offer solutions expertise to make your production process more efficient. INFO# 114
Müller Martini
Müller Martini is the world’s largest producer of print finishing solutions for commercial and book printers, trade binderies, and newspapers as well as short-run and digital book manufacturers. INFO# 115
Nobelus
Nobelus offers a range of thermal laminates, adhesive-free films, pre-laminations, and thermal laminating equipment to digital print service providers across the print and packaging industry. From essential gloss and matte films to premium finishes and special effects, our solutions enable digital printers and converters to make products brands love. We also offer innovative solutions for the digital flexible packaging market, including print web films, thermal pre-laminations, and PE films that support recyclable applications. Our line of thermal laminators includes units for nearly any print application, including single-sided lamination, double-sided lamination, embossing, cold foiling, and more. Nobelus provides industry-leading service and support in nearly every market, including commercial print, prime labels, flexible packaging, publications, digital photo finishing, and print on demand. INFO# 116
Presswise by Smartsoft
Designed by a visionary printer burdened by the traditional manual workflow process that still plagues many printers today, PressWise is an end-to-end software as a service-based MIS and print workflow automation solution that comes complete with robust features such as unlimited web storefronts, estimating, quoting, order processing, workflow management, complete shipping integration, fulfillment, and the ability to integrate with most other third-party storefronts. INFO# 117
Ricoh USA, Inc.
Ricoh USA Graphic Communications is committed to helping you grow your business, improve customer engagement, and increase operational efficiencies. Ricoh boasts an expansive portfolio of services, hardware, and software that includes sheet-fed systems, expert professional services, software, and finishing. As part of a global leader, Ricoh creates competitive advantage and solves problems for 1.4 million-plus businesses—both large and small. INFO# 118
RISO, Inc.
RISO, Inc., headquartered in Woburn, MA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, Japan’s leading manufacturer and distributor 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/160 pages per minute duplexed. RISO machines are environmentally friendly, inexpensive to operate, and easy to use. INFO# 119
Rollem International
Rollem specializes in automated slitting, scoring, and perforating systems and sheet-fed, rotary die-cutting systems. The Insignia die-cutting system offers ease of operation and quick changeovers. It is ideal for folded cartons, packaging, gift cards, and more. Proudly made in the U.S., Jetstream is a bidirectional slitting, scoring, perforating system, well suited for postcards, business cards, and shelf tags. With a folder/gluer it is a fully automated direct mail finishing system. The Semi-Slitter kiss-cuts pressure-sensitive adhesive stock for stickers and labels. The Champion 990 is our economical scoring and perforating system. Tell us about your finishing issues or bottlenecks and we’ll provide you with options to streamline production and eliminate excess labor and waste while expanding your product offerings. Sizes compatible with all press sizes up to B2 sheets. INFO# 120
Screen USA
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 the commercial, transactional, publishing, direct mail, label, folding carton, and flexible packaging markets by delivering the latest innovations to help printers grow their businesses. INFO# 121
Sharp
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) helps businesses achieve simply smarter work by assisting in workflow management, creating immersive environments, and increasing productivity. SIICA offers secure production printers, office printer and copier solutions, commercial displays and projectors, Dynabook laptops, management and productivity software, and fully managed services. INFO# 122
Signs365
Signs365 is a grand format, trade only wholesale printer. We offer a wide 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! INFO# 123
Standard Finishing Systems
Standard distributes a broad line of feeding and finishing products including Horizon perfect binders, collators, folders, saddlestitchers, die cutters, slitters/creasers, and bookletmakers; and Hunkeler unwinders, rewinders, cutters/stackers, dynamic perforators, and inspection systems for continuous-feed printers. Standard has applied its knowledge of the conventional offset print finishing industry to engineer effective solutions for the expanding digital and inkjet print markets. INFO# 124
Therm-O-Type
Therm-O-Type digital finishing products include the new 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 supported the printing industry with equipment, supplies, and technical expertise since 1977. INFO# 125
Valloy Incorporation
Korean venture VALLOY is a global digital printing solution company. BIZPRESS13R is a Xerox engine based roll label press and DUOBLADE WX is a fully automatic blade-driven, roll-to-roll digital label finisher. DUOBLADE WX II has eight cutting heads to catch up with the speed of laser cutters, showing clean cutting edges without dust nor scratches. DUOBLADE FX is an intelligent sheet fed sticker cutter, which produces various kiss- and full-cut outputs in unmanned environments. INFO# 126
Videojet Technologies, Inc.
Videojet Technologies is a world leader in the product identification market, providing inline printing, coding, and marking products, application specific fluids, and product lifecycle services. With customer application experts and technology leadership in continuous inkjet, thermal inkjet, laser marking, thermal transfer overprinting, case coding and labeling, and wide array printing, Videojet has more than 400,000 printers installed worldwide. INFO# 127
Xeikon America, Inc.
A division of the Flint Group, Xeikon is an innovator in digital printing technology. The company designs, develops, and delivers web-fed digital color presses for label and packaging applications, commercial, and graphic arts printing. These presses utilize LED-array-based dry toner electrophotography, open workflow software, and application-specific toners. Xeikon Dry Toner is FDA-compliant for food labels and packaging applications. INFO# 128
Xerox Corp.
For more than 100 years, Xerox has continually redefined the workplace experience. Harnessing our leadership position in office and production print technology, we’ve expanded into software and services to sustainably power the hybrid workplace of today and tomorrow. INFO# 129
Honorable Mentions
In addition to the Top 30 we present five companies that have earned honorable mention status.
Bobst
We are one of the world’s leading suppliers of substrate processing, printing, and converting equipment and services for the label, flexible packaging, folding carton, and corrugated board industries. INFO# 130
Crawford
Crawford Technologies is an award-winning, global provider of high-value solutions and services that helps enterprises optimize and improve the secure and accessible delivery, presentment, and storage of high-volume customer communications/documents. INFO# 131
Enfocus, an Esko Company
Enfocus develops affordable, flexible automation software for commercial and wide format printers. Our products, PitStop, Switch, Review, Phoenix, and Griffin enable print service providers to automate their business toward profitability while ensuring quality. INFO# 132
Rochester Software Associates
Rochester Software Associates is the only company in the industry to provide transform, output management, prepress, and web to print software solutions to support digital production print workflows. INFO# 133
Zund America, Inc.
Zünd digital cutting systems are perfect for graphics, packaging, and other industrial applications. With a complete palette of cutting, routing, and even laser tool options for processing rigid and/or flexible substrates, the G3/S3 and dual-beam D3 are adaptable to any production environment. INFO# 134
Editor’s Note
Each year DPS magazine recognizes the top-performing industry vendors as decided by our proprietary tracking and lead generation system, dpsmagdirect.com. The annual Top 30 Readers’ Choice Awards help provide a snapshot of the products and services our readers engage with the most. Continue to request information via the portal on products you’re interested in to show your support for your favorite vendors throughout the year.
Mar2025, DPS Magazine
