Trends · data through September 2026

Printing Services in the United States

Iceflower tracks 4,183 stores from 3,732 printing service chains in the United States. The Mercury News grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Copy Plus and Copy Central.

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
3,732
Tracked stores
4,183
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. The Mercury News and Copy Plus sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 The Mercury News ▲1 +17.9%
2 Copy Plus - +16.4%
3 Copy Central ▼1 +12.3%
4 The Print Shop ▲2 +4.8%
5 CopyWorks ▲1 +3.4%
6 Instant Imprints - -2.0%
7 Minuteman Press - -2.8%
8 T-Mania - -6.5%
9 Elite ▲1 -7.2%
10 AlphaGraphics ▲1 -7.8%
11 Steamroller Copies - -10.3%
12 Cap World ▼1 -17.3%
13 FASTSIGNS ▼1 -19.5%
14 Sir Speedy Print, Signs, Marketing - -21.4%
15 Signarama ▼2 -28.8%
  • Minuteman Press
  • Chicago Tribune Northwest Offices
  • AlphaGraphics
  • Megapro Screen Printing
  • FASTSIGNS
  • YORKVILLE
  • Prattville Printing
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,183 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 235 of the 4,183 stores (6%); 3,593 of the 3,732 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Minuteman Press (119)
  • Chicago Tribune Northwest Offices (1)
  • AlphaGraphics (47)
  • Megapro Screen Printing (1)
  • FASTSIGNS (44)
  • YORKVILLE (1)
  • Prattville Printing (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Minuteman Press 119
  • 2 AlphaGraphics 47
  • 3 FASTSIGNS 44
  • 4 The Print Shop 13
  • 5 Allegra Marketing Print Mail 12
  • 6 Signarama 11
  • 7 Sir Speedy Print, Signs, Marketing 8
  • 8 PIP Marketing, Signs, Print 7
  • 9 Copy Central 6
  • 10 Instant Imprints 5
  • 11 ARC Document Solutions 5
  • 12 Elite 5
  • 13 Duncan-Parnell, Inc. 5
  • 14 International Minute Press 5
  • 15 CopyWorks 4
  • 16 T-Mania 4
  • 17 The Mercury News 4
  • 18 Copy Plus 4
  • 19 Fresh Start 4
  • 20 Signs By Tomorrow 4
  • 21 ProSource 3
  • 22 Cap World 3
  • 23 Steamroller Copies 3
  • 24 Gordon's Copyprint 2
  • 25 Campus Customs 2
  • 26 C.C. Creations 2
  • 27 Arlington Ink 2
  • 28 Lake Zurich 2
  • 29 Metrograph 2
  • 30 Campus Ink 2
  • 31 Printex Printing Company 2
  • 32 Gw School Supply 2
  • 33 AZ Custom Print 2
  • 34 Embroidery & More 2
  • 35 TSS Printing 2
  • 36 The Teen Center 2
  • 37 PC Print Center 2
  • 38 Signs In One Day 2
  • 39 The Shirt Shop 2
  • 40 Greentree 2
  • 41 Print Plus 2
  • 42 Yellowstone T-Shirt Co. 1
  • 43 DeSigns Inc. 1
  • 44 Mesa Blueprint 1
  • 45 Williams Printing & Office Supply 1
  • 46 ACS Printing 1
  • 47 Classic Printing 1
  • 48 Stafford Printing 1
  • 49 JEB Designs, Inc. 1
  • 50 High Desert Prints 1

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