The data presented in this article are culled from the responses of 41 U.S. and Canadian industrial printing companies. It was collected as a part of the 2015 SGIA Specialty Imaging Industry Survey, which was conducted between January 1 and February 28, 2015.

For the sake of the survey (and this article), industrial printing is defined as “printing produced by companies that use any of a variety of imaging technologies to either create or embellish items within a broader manufacturing process.” While some industrial printing companies operate using a “print for pay” model, their end product usually falls outside of the display graphics/signage most commonly associated with specialty graphics companies.

Companies in the industrial printing community almost exclusively serve business-to-business customers. It is most common for companies in this segment to serve either national or international customers. Three-fourths of companies are print-for-pay operations serving both industrial and other markets. Slightly more than half of companies report between 80 and 100 percent of their total revenue is generated via industrial printing activities. The median annual revenue for industrial printing companies is $4,784,615.