Other than in the case of Africa's largest publisher of newspapers and magazines who own their own printing group of businesses, printers in South Africa are generally independent and as with the case of many other things come in 3 sizes, namely large medium and small. These businesses have a tendency to trade in niche markets, there is additionally the overlap of printing services delivered by them, in terms of product type.
The larger concerns are generally involved in the printing of independent magazines and newspapers, the printing of large scale posters and such products, while there are those that also specialise in the printing of cardboard boxes. Mid-sized printing services are either highly specialised in the service they provide, employing high tech equipment, while others are regional based. These regional printing services often use older technology, as the pressure is not as high on volumes and critical quality printing. Smaller printing services are either in-house facility to large businesses, small town based printers or printing providers of high-tech, high quality specialised printing.
The range of printing services delivered by these concerns, small and big is truly incredible. There are the highly specialised services of printing top quality glossy magazines and luxury goods brochures, to the extremely high speed printing by laser printer of address labels and other computer generated data, to the printing of backlit marketing material, to vinyl printing, to the routine country newspaper and business card. Although of course, there's much pressure on the printed media as a result of online and other data carrier's networks there is still a vast volume of printed media around. The supply of brochures, flyers and other bits of marketing media, which is inserted into regional newspapers, is truly astonishing - week after week, without failure.
Printing services also play a large role in the development of top quality graphics for the use in magazines and publications using sophisticated software applications, also in their layout design. Supplemental services, including binding, stitching, advertising campaign insertion, plastic wrapping as well as others are also provided through printing services apart from their mainstream purpose of providing printed media of varied descriptions.
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