Wide-Format Printing — Sizing Up a New Market

Similarities can be found in the evolution of DPI in San Francisco, which has grown into a full-service printer with 55 employees. Sanjay Sakhuja started the company in 1989 as a pioneering, PostScript-based color prepress house.

The company first ventured into the commercial printing arena in 1996 by installing a digital color press. Soon after, it added a digital platesetter and began selling plates to local printers. Sakhuja says he quickly recognized that the future was in direct-to-plate production, so in 1998 the company acquired one of its printer clients (a 40˝ sheetfed shop).