Sheridan Printing Co. Inc.

What Sheridan Printing Co. Inc. does

Sheridan Communications, Inc., doing business as Sheridan Printing Co., Inc., is a privately owned commercial printing and digital workflow services provider founded in 1956 and headquartered at 1425 Third Avenue, Alpha, New Jersey. The company operates with a lean team of approximately 9 employees and serves a primarily vertical customer base of academic and conference publishers, journal and periodical publishers, and related organizations in the Northeast United States. Its service offering spans the full production lifecycle under one roof: prepress (typesetting, desktop design, scanning, plate making, E-Pub conversion), pressroom (two, four, five and six color perfecting presses accommodating sheet sizes from 8.5 x 11 up to 29 x 41), bindery (trimming, folding, binding, lamination, stitching), mailing and shipping (FedEx/UPS/DHL accounts, USPS permit management, and a local van fleet serving NYC), and approximately 30,000 square feet of warehousing and fulfillment capacity.

The company's principal software product is its proprietary Online Workflow System (OWS), a hosted, web-based submission, tracking, review and management solution targeting conference and academic publication workflows. OWS handles papers, abstracts, presentations, posters, video and audio files with associated metadata, and provides real-time status tracking, email notifications, distributed collaborative review, hierarchical authentication (authors, reviewers, administrators, committee members), daily off-site backups, and full broadband redundancy. Prepress technology includes an AGFA Avalon chemistry-free digital plate system and Nexus PDF RIP with Pitstop Preflight for print-ready file validation. The company goes to market through a direct enterprise sales motion — a Request Quote (RFQ) system on its website, phone (908-454-0700), fax (908-454-2554), and FTP-based file submission; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Sheridan has operated continuously for over 68 years and retains many of its original founding-era customers.

Name

Sheridan Printing Co. Inc.

Legal name

Sheridan Communications, Inc.

Website

https://sheridanprinting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1956

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sheridan Communications is a privately owned commercial printer founded in 1956 in Alpha, New Jersey, offering full-service print production and a proprietary web-based submission workflow system (OWS) to academic and conference publishers in the Northeast US.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Alpha

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Printing Services: Offset printing services using two, four, five and six color perfecting presses accommodating sheet sizes from 8.5 x 11 up to 29 x 41. Large format four and six color presses for deadline-critical jobs.
2. Prepress Services: Typesetting, desktop design, page makeup, scanning, CD/DVD/USB production, online products, and plate making. Editorial services for ongoing customer communication.
3. Online Workflow System (OWS): Hosted, web-based submission, tracking, review and management solution. Customized to customer workflow with hierarchical authentication and real-time status tracking. Revenue from setup/customization and hosting services.
4. Mailing & Shipping Services: Tabbing, inserting, jiffy bags, paper/plastic banding, shrink-wrapping, boxing. Inkjet addressing, mailing list handling, permit account management, FedEx/UPS/DHL accounts, local van pickup and delivery including NYC.
5. Warehousing & Fulfillment: Approximately 30,000 square feet of warehouse storage with loading dock access for back issue storage and complete fulfillment services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sheridan Printing Co. Inc. provides full-service commercial printing including prepress, pressroom, bindery, mailing and shipping, and warehousing and fulfillment. The company produces academic and conference publications, journals, and periodicals for publishers and similar organizations. It also offers a proprietary Online Workflow System (OWS) for managing editorial-to-fulfillment job workflows.

Product overview

Sheridan Communications Inc. operates as a traditional commercial printing company offering a unified suite of print production and digital workflow services. The product portfolio consists of two core offerings: (1) Printing Services covering the full production lifecycle from prepress through bindery and fulfillment, and (2) the Online Workflow System (OWS), a proprietary hosted web platform for conference and publication submission management, review tracking, and content preparation. The services are delivered through in-house control across prepress, printing, bindery, and shipping departments, with the OWS serving as the digital interface for managing submissions and coordinating the review process.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Printing Services Full-service commercial printing covering prepress, offset pressroom, bindery, mailing and shipping, and warehousing and fulfillment, targeted at academic and conference publishers, journal and periodical publishers, and other organizations requiring high-volume recurring print production.
• Online Workflow System (OWS) Proprietary web-based job management platform that enables publisher customers to manage editorial-to-fulfillment workflows for recurring publications, supporting version control across multiple editions and centralized job tracking.

Quantifiable outcome

• Lowest postage costs available through fully automated mailing adhering to strict postal regulations
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN): Provides compliance and communications solutions including print and digital publishing for financial and regulated industries. Overlaps with Sheridan in production of complex, deadline-driven publications, though DFIN is much larger and publicly traded.
• Cenveo: Diversified commercial printing platform serving publishing, retail, and direct mail customers. Broad incumbent in the same commercial printing category as Sheridan, though far larger and broader in scope.

Direct peers

• Versa Press: Book printer serving academic, trade, and specialty publishers with short- to medium-run production. Comparable customer profile in academic and educational publishing to Sheridan.
• Fry Communications: Magazine, catalog, and book printer with bindery, mailing, and digital content services. Comparable end-to-end publishing services model focused on recurring, deadline-driven work.
• Publishers Press: Magazine and journal printing and mailing services provider with integrated prepress, press, bindery, and distribution. Overlaps with Sheridan in periodical production and mailing.
• Malloy Incorporated: Family-owned book and journal printer offering prepress, printing, binding, and fulfillment for publishers. Highly comparable niche focus on book and periodical production with end-to-end services similar to Sheridan.
• Port City Press (CJK Group): Specialty printer of journals, magazines, and short-run books with bindery, mailing, and fulfillment. Closely comparable product mix and customer base to Sheridan Communications.
• Color House Graphics: Mid-sized commercial printer offering offset and digital printing, prepress, bindery, and mailing to publishing and corporate customers. Comparable scale and integrated service model to Sheridan.
• The Sheridan Group (an Atlas Holdings company): Largest US provider of print and content workflow solutions to journal, magazine, and book publishers. Directly comparable to Sheridan Communications in serving academic/scientific publishers with integrated print + digital workflow services, though at far greater scale.
• Automated Graphics Systems: Provides content management, composition, and digital workflow solutions to publishers alongside print production. Comparable to Sheridan's OWS-plus-print model for academic and professional publishers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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