Trends · data through September 2026

Printing Services in California

Iceflower tracks 335 stores from 317 printing service chains in California. Copy Central grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Mercury News and FASTSIGNS.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
317
Tracked stores
335
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked printing service chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Copy Central and The Mercury News sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Copy Central - +7.8%
2 The Mercury News - +5.7%
3 FASTSIGNS - -27.8%
  • Grass Valley Sign
  • Coast Designs
  • Humane Society of Sonoma County
  • ProSource
  • Golden Gate Litho
  • JP Digital Imaging
  • The Mercury News
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

335 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 17 of the 335 stores (5%); 306 of the 317 tracked chains have a single store here. 1% of the tracked other stores here are printing services, against 2% across the United States.

  • Grass Valley Sign (1)
  • Coast Designs (1)
  • Humane Society of Sonoma County (1)
  • ProSource (1)
  • Golden Gate Litho (1)
  • JP Digital Imaging (1)
  • The Mercury News (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Minuteman Press 4
  • 2 The Mercury News 4
  • 3 FASTSIGNS 4
  • 4 Copy Central 3
  • 5 Piedmont Copy & Printing 2
  • 6 Cal Copy 2
  • 7 Tri Valley Cares 2
  • 8 Gw School Supply 2
  • 9 Copy Center 2
  • 10 Copy Express 2
  • 11 Copy Plus 2
  • 12 JH Tackett Marketing Inc 1
  • 13 Hyegraph Invitations and Calligraphy 1
  • 14 American Express 1
  • 15 Ace Litho Printing 1
  • 16 Elite Shipping 1
  • 17 J Hernandez Signs 1
  • 18 Boomerang Blueprint & Reprographics 1
  • 19 Joy Embroidery 1
  • 20 Digital Copy 1
  • 21 The Purrrinting Company 1
  • 22 California Marking Device 1
  • 23 Elite 4 Print 1
  • 24 Custom Print Bros 1
  • 25 Ace Screen Printing Supply 1
  • 26 Copy Cove of La Jolla 1
  • 27 Inland Signs, Inc 1
  • 28 New Skin Sactown 1
  • 29 Super Copy 1
  • 30 Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union 246 1
  • 31 Bay Area Indian Cultural Society 1
  • 32 Print Kraze 1
  • 33 Send & Receive Mail Printing N More 1
  • 34 Ceres Garden Club 1
  • 35 Alliance Graphics 1
  • 36 Concepts of Ink 1
  • 37 Morrison's Silkscreen & Embroidery 1
  • 38 Pins & Needles Embroidery 1
  • 39 CopyCats Digital Solutions 1
  • 40 Paco's Graffix and Signs 1
  • 41 Cap World 1
  • 42 Brentwood Embroidery & Screen Printing 1
  • 43 Sunburst Printers 1
  • 44 Pak N Mail 1
  • 45 Just Send It Postal 1
  • 46 Ojai Business Center 1
  • 47 Engrave 'N Embroider Things 1
  • 48 Movement Ink 1
  • 49 Package Depo 1
  • 50 LOCAL 49 1

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