Appl Druck GmbH

Name

Appl Druck GmbH

Legal name

Appl Druck GmbH

Website

https://appldruck.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pforzheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Print Production: Individual print production orders using sheet-fed offset and digital printing methods. Each order is produced as a single-unit custom job with high quality standards and continuous monitoring. Revenue generated through project-based print orders.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Appl Druck GmbH is an owner-operated printing company based in Pforzheim, Germany, established in 1978, that produces custom printed materials using sheet-fed offset printing and digital printing. The company offers individual production runs for regional businesses and organizations, handling jobs from a single piece through larger commercial print runs with continuous quality sampling.

Product overview

Appl Druck GmbH operates as a print media service provider offering two primary printing technologies: Bogenoffset (sheet-fed offset printing) and Digitaldruck (digital printing). All production is based on an Einzelfertigung (individual/single-item production) model, meaning each order is produced separately with maximum care. The company has maintained continuous sampling and data archiving as standard practices for decades. Their quality control process includes stopping production immediately and contacting the customer if any irregularities are detected during manufacturing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sheet-fed offset printing (Bogenoffset) Commercial sheet-fed offset printing service for producing high-quality printed materials in standard print runs, intended for regional businesses and organizations in the Pforzheim area.
• Digital printing (Digitaldruck) Digital printing service providing on-demand and short-run print production for regional business customers requiring flexible, smaller-quantity print jobs.
• Individual custom production (Einzelfertigung)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Flyeralarm GmbH: Germany's largest online mass-print provider. Appl Druck explicitly contrasts its single-item production model against Flyeralarm's Sammelform-/Flyera products, making it the most direct reference competitor for positioning despite very different scale.
• Saxoprint GmbH: German/Belgian online offset and digital printer serving SME customers across Europe. Directly comparable in product offering (offset + digital commercial printing) but competing primarily on price/scale in the same SMB segment Appl Druck targets regionally.
• Onlineprinters GmbH: Major German online commercial printer serving SMBs across Europe with offset and digital printing. Comparable in technology (offset + digital) but operates at scale via standardized mass production rather than Appl Druck's individual-production model.
• Diedruckerei.de (Carl Meyer GmbH): German online commercial printer offering offset and digital production for business customers. Shares the same product category (commercial print) and buyer (regional SMBs), but competes on volume pricing rather than single-item quality.
• CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA: European printing group with commercial print and photo/personalization operations. Comparable in offering breadth across print technologies and customer segments, but at much larger scale and with broader geographic reach.

Others

• Canon Deutschland (Production Print): OEM of production digital printing systems used in commercial print shops. Comparable as the technology supplier behind Appl Druck's digital printing capability, enabling potential partnership or fleet comparisons.
• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG: Global manufacturer of offset printing presses and equipment used in commercial print shops. Comparable as an ecosystem participant since Appl Druck's offset capabilities depend on this class of equipment; not a direct competitor for print services.
• HP Inc. (Graphic Solutions): OEM of Indigo and PageWide production digital presses used in commercial printing. Comparable as ecosystem participant supplying the digital print technology Appl Druck uses to deliver individual production runs.

Direct peers

• Kösel GmbH: German family-owned commercial and book printer in operation since 1949. Closely comparable in profile: owner-operated, quality-focused, regional roots, and serving customized print orders rather than commodity mass output.

Regional players

• Prinovis / Schlott Groupe (regional German printers): Mid-sized German commercial printing groups such as Bonifatius and similar regional printers. Comparable in offering custom offset and digital print for regional business and institutional customers across Germany.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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