Name

Alcom Printing

Legal name

Alcom Printing Group, Inc.

Website

https://alcomprinting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1943

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Harleysville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commercial Printing Services: Core revenue stream from offset and digital printing services for marketing materials, publications, catalogs, brochures, books, and promotional collateral. Includes high-volume cold-set web printing and sheetfed offset printing for large-scale production runs.
2. Variable Data Printing: Personalized printing services charging per-piece or per-campaign fees based on customization complexity and volume. Combines digital and offset capabilities for personalized direct mail and transactional communications.
3. Direct Mail Services: Full-scale direct mail services including strategic campaign planning, printing, mailing, and fulfillment. Revenue generated through postage, processing, and handling fees alongside print production.
4. Promotional Products: Corporate promotional products including branded merchandise, apparel, event materials, and custom items. Revenue from product sourcing, customization, kitting, and distribution services.
5. Online Print Ordering Portal: SaaS-style print procurement platform enabling centralized ordering, budget management, and fulfillment for multi-location businesses. Platform features real-time inventory tracking, automated approvals, and version control supporting brand consistency.
6. Class Action Notice Printing: High-volume legal notification printing services including personalized notices, claims packets, settlement booklets, transactional documents, and secure check distribution for class action settlements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Alcom Printing is a commercial printing provider that produces physical printed materials and integrated marketing communications for mid-to-large organizations. Its offerings span offset, digital, cold-set web, wide-format, and variable data printing; full direct mail production and mailing via an on-site USPS office; promotional products sourcing and kitting; and a cloud-based online print ordering portal for multi-location and franchise customers. Industry-tailored services cover class action notices, education enrollment, financial, health insurance, and pharmaceutical/healthcare printing.

Product overview

Alcom Printing Group is a commercial printing provider offering a comprehensive suite of integrated marketing communications services. The company operates as a single-source print partner providing both traditional and digital printing technologies alongside fulfillment services. The core portfolio includes Digital Printing Services and Variable Data Printing Services for personalized campaigns, complemented by Sheetfed Offset Printing and Cold Set Web Printing for high-volume production runs. Wide-Format Printing supports large-scale graphics needs. Direct Mail Printing and Mailing Services with USPS integration handles distribution, while an Online Print Ordering Portal provides centralized print management for multi-location organizations. Specialized services span Class Action Notice Printing and Mailing, Education Printing Services, Financial Printing, Health Insurance Printing, and Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Printing. Corporate Promotional Products and custom Collectible Card Printing round out the offering. The company also participates in the 9Fold Collective partner network for expanded national capabilities. Services are unified through in-house production, mailing, kitting, warehousing, and fulfillment operations at their Pennsylvania facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 9Fold Collective: North American network of industry-leading experts in print, packaging, branding, marketing, and fulfillment that Alcom Printing is part of.

Products and services

• Digital Printing Services Scalable digital printing solutions enabling high-quality variable printing for targeted personalized messaging with quick-turn capabilities. Ideal for business cards, brochures, postcards, booklets, flyers, marketing materials, checks, and short-run books.
• Variable Data Printing Services Combines digital flexibility with offset quality to deliver personalized campaigns at scale. Enables one-to-one engagement through variable names, offers, images, and QR codes while reducing per-piece costs and lead times.
• Sheetfed Offset Printing Cost-effective solution for large-scale print runs producing consistent, accurate results with enhanced detail and color fidelity using state-of-the-art equipment and computer direct-to-plate technology. Ideal for medium-to-large runs of books, brochures, magazines, catalogs, annual reports, publications, pharmaceutical inserts, newsletters, financial materials, and sales/marketing materials.
• Cold Set Web Printing High-volume cost-efficient printing on uncoated paper using ink that dries through absorption and evaporation. Features black-and-white and CMYK capabilities with roll sizes from 11 to 39 inches, in-line glue and trimming, and multi-page web offset book press. Ideal for annual reports, catalogs, and booklets.
• Wide-Format Printing Prints up to 96 inches wide and 2.5 inches thick on almost any medium. Capabilities include event and tradeshow banners, window clings, wallpaper, transparencies, posters, floor graphics, prototype packaging, 3D and lightback signage, canvas wall art, and custom installations.
• Direct Mail Printing and Mailing Services Full-scale direct mail services including strategic campaign planning, printing, and mailing through an on-site USPS Office. CASS-certified to meet USPS requirements. Includes NCOA directory integration, pre-sort software, and database manipulation for maximum postal discounts.
• Corporate Promotional Products Full spectrum of promotional products including uniforms, apparel branding, tradeshow and event swag, and high-end corporate gifts. Accredited by ASI with access to over 3,000 suppliers and in-house kitting assembly and distribution.
• Online Print Ordering Portal Centralized cloud-based print management platform enabling multi-location businesses to order pre-approved marketing materials, manage budgets with automated approvals, track inventory in real-time, ensure brand consistency with centralized templates, and eliminate expense reporting with direct corporate invoicing. Features include live proofing, version control, PCI-compliant payments, and FDA approval tracking for pharmaceutical companies.
• Class Action Notice Printing and Mailing End-to-end class action communication services including high-volume printing, personalized notice production, mail fulfillment, and secure settlement check distribution. Supports hundreds of thousands to millions of notices, settlement booklets, claims packets, and transactional documents with variable data integration.
• Education Printing Services Scalable printing and direct mail services for education organizations including personalized enrollment campaigns, fundraising materials, alumni communications, and publications. Supports higher education, private schools, and early education providers with variable data personalization to improve response rates.
• Financial Printing High-quality financial printing for timely documents with InfoSafe Certification and ISO-compliant policies ensuring confidentiality and data security. Streamlines printing and mailing logistics for investor and shareholder communications, financial statements, annual reports, and regulatory filings.
• Health Insurance Printing Services Precision printing for health insurance documents including Evidence of Coverage (EOC), Summary of Benefits (SBC), Annual Notice of Change (ANOC), Pre-Enrollment Guides, and Formulary Guides. Supports variable data printing for policyholder information with ISO-compliant data security measures.
• Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Printing Services Comprehensive pharmaceutical and healthcare printing including packaging inserts, patient education materials, and marketing collateral. Features warehousing, pick and pack fulfillment, and a secure print management portal with FDA approval tracking and real-time inventory management.
• Custom Trading Card Printing Professional custom trading card and collectible card printing services for brands, game creators, and artists, featuring precision printing, durable materials, premium finishes (gloss, matte, soft-touch, UV), thick premium card stock, and options for rounded or square corners. Supports short runs, large quantities, and repeat printings with warehousing and fulfillment options.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30-50% lift in direct mail response rates with personalized variable data printing
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• 9Fold CollectivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth American network of industry-leading experts in print, packaging, branding, marketing, and fulfillment. Enables Alcom to provide expanded capabilities, nationwide reach, and seamless execution for complex multi-location campaigns while maintaining local expertise and quality standards.
• USPS (United States Postal Service)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOn-site USPS Office with CASS certification for direct mail optimization. Alcom meets all US Postal Service stringent requirements ensuring direct mail programs execute without issues, including eligibility for postage discounts and postal promotions.
• NCOA (National Change of Address)supportingTechnology or IntegrationNCOA Directory integration providing accurate address updates to increase delivery results. Pre-sort software updates records and fixes potential non-deliverables before postal mail stream entry, preventing wasted postage and returned mail.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Taylor Corporation: Large diversified commercial and digital print provider with comparable breadth across marketing collateral, direct mail, and personalized printing for enterprise customers.
• Cenveo: Direct peer offering commercial printing, labels, and packaging with significant exposure to financial, legal, and regulated-document printing. Closely comparable to Alcom's class action, financial, and direct mail offerings.
• RR Donnelley (Donnelley Financial Solutions / LSC Communications): Historically the largest US commercial printer with deep overlap in financial printing, transactional documents, and direct mail—Alcom's regulated vertical mix closely mirrors DFIN/LSC's core offerings.
• Multi-Color Corporation: Global label and packaging printer with comparable variable-data, premium-finish capabilities to Alcom's collectible card and specialty printing lines.
• Walsworth Publishing: Family-owned commercial printer with strong book, yearbook, and publication printing capabilities—directly comparable to Alcom's cold-set web book/annual report/catalog production.
• Deluxe Corporation: Provider of printed and digital marketing solutions including checks, financial documents, and direct mail—directly comparable to Alcom's class action check distribution and financial printing business.

Regional players

• Tukaiz: Midwest-based integrated marketing services and commercial printer with comparable digital, offset, direct mail, and fulfillment offerings to Alcom, though serving different regional customers.
• DS Graphics: Northeast US commercial printer with comparable offset, digital, wide-format, and direct mail capabilities; competes for similar Mid-Atlantic enterprise customers as Alcom.

Broad incumbents

• Cimpress (Vistaprint): Mass-customization printing platform with overlapping online self-service portal and variable data capabilities. Comparable on the product-led/online ordering model Alcom deploys for multi-location customers.
• Quad/Graphics: Public large-scale commercial printer and marketing services provider with overlapping capabilities in catalogs, direct mail, and variable data printing, though serving much larger enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/alcom-printing-109126879145605
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/502574

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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