Printers’ Showcase Returns to Graphics of the Americas

In the state of Florida alone, graphic arts is Florida’s number one manufacturing industry with 75,100 employees and $9.41 billion in annual sales. In addition, printing is the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States that employs 1.1 million individuals. With over 39,000 printing plants nationwide, the printing industry exceeds the combined number of franchises in all of the McDonalds, Taco Bells and Pizza Huts in the United States. Graphics of the Americas-Xplor, hosted each year in Miami Beach, Florida, is the second largest annual graphic arts, printing, communications exposition in the Western Hemisphere and the largest annual international graphic arts show in the United States. Graphics of the Americas-Xplor is also marketed by the United States government as part of the International Buyer Program (IBP) and certified by the US Department of Commerce.