The Best Places in the United States for Printing Companies to be Located Are...

During this same 65 years, print consumption (the same thing as the U.S. population) migrated at a pace of 10.8 miles per year from Attica, IN, to Perry, OK. That places it (brown pin in the map in photo tab to the right) 757 miles (or 1,218 km) SSW of our collective shipping dock, and on a more alarming heading difference of 21°. If we calibrated our presses so carelessly we’d all go out of business, and so we may if the supply trajectory is not course corrected.

Inside or Outside the Strike Zone
If your business is concentrated, it’s best to be nearer the customers than to their customers. Co-location is the home run strategy here. No traveling back and forth, and no sales offices to set up. The latter are always disasters with issues of taxation, law, rents and personnel.