Canadian Trade Printers — Going North of the Border

Toronto is home to many wondrous icons, from the CN Tower on down to hockey’s Maple Leafs. But, to the printing industry, the greater Toronto area is a fertile feeding ground for farming out excess volume or special needs jobs to the scores of printers to the trade that thrive here.

It is a curiosity that so many printers to the trade are based in and around Toronto, but there are advantages to taking this route. Many of the trade businesses are relatively young, thus, much of the equipment in these shops is new. For many, an outside sales force is unnecessary. And, now, with Chinese and Indonesian coated free sheet paper imports carrying a hefty tariff, it’s yet another way for a U.S. printer to save some money outsourcing and remain competitive in its bidding process.