For 25 years, Direct Edge has grown because of the people behind it.
What started as an idea has evolved into a comprehensive print and production company serving brands, retailers, agencies, and organizations across the country. Along the way, we’ve expanded our capabilities, invested in technology, built lasting customer relationships, and continuously challenged ourselves to find better ways to produce, manage, and deliver our customers’ projects.
But while technology has played an important role in our growth, our biggest investment has always been in our people.
As we celebrate 25 years, we want to recognize every employee—past and present—who has been part of the Direct Edge journey. Your hard work, loyalty, resilience, and dedication have helped shape the company we are today. Every project produced, challenge solved, deadline met, and customer relationship built has contributed to this milestone.
25 Years of Investing in What’s Possible
Over the past quarter century, Direct Edge has evolved far beyond traditional printing.
Today, our more than 195,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities across California, Colorado, and Texas house an extensive range of printing, finishing, manufacturing, kitting, warehousing, and fulfillment capabilities.
Our production floor includes some of the industry’s most advanced digital, offset, and large-format equipment. From the Fujifilm J Press 750S and KBA Rapida 105 offset press to high-speed digital production on equipment including the Kodak Nexfinity and Durst TAU RSC-E 330, our small-format capabilities allow us to produce everything from commercial print and packaging to labels and other highly detailed applications.
Our large- and grand-format capabilities take production to another scale. With equipment including EFI VUTEk, Inca Onset, EFI Matan, Fujifilm Uvistar, and Epson SureColor systems, we can produce graphics ranging from detailed point-of-purchase applications to massive environmental graphics and displays measuring more than five meters wide.
But printing is only part of the equation.
Built to Finish the Job
One of the advantages of Direct Edge’s growth has been our ability to bring more of the production process in-house.
Our extensive finishing and converting capabilities include folder/gluers, perfect binding, stitching, creasing, folding, die cutting, drilling, cutting, laminating, and shrink wrapping. Equipment such as the SBL Platinum die cutters, Horizon finishing systems, MBO folders, Grafotronic DCL2, Polar cutters, and Zünd digital cutting systems give our teams the ability to take printed sheets and substrates and turn them into highly finished, production-ready pieces.
For large-format and specialty projects, our capabilities extend even further.
Industrial sewing and welding equipment, automated sewing systems, grommet machines, heat bending, laminating, and finishing equipment allow our team to manufacture everything from fabric graphics and banners to dimensional displays and other custom structures.
And with advanced digital cutting technology—including multiple Zünd cutting systems and an Esko CAD table—we can precisely cut and shape a wide range of materials for custom displays, packaging, signage, and point-of-purchase applications.
The result is a production environment designed to keep projects moving under one roof.
More Than a Printer
Today, Direct Edge offers a comprehensive suite of in-house services spanning creative design, advanced software development, print production, finishing, manufacturing, kitting, warehousing, and fulfillment.
Our Anaheim facilities provide large and grand format, finishing, kitting, warehousing, fulfillment, small format sheet-fed and offset printing, and label printing. Our Denver facility provides large format, grand format, and small format digital printing, while our newest Dallas-area location expands our large format, grand format, and small format digital capabilities in Texas.
This combination of technology, infrastructure, and experienced people allows us to approach projects differently.
Instead of relying on a collection of outside vendors to handle different stages of production, our teams can manage much of the process internally. That means greater control over quality, timelines, consistency, and the customer experience.
Whether we’re producing thousands of retail displays, large-scale environmental graphics, custom packaging, labels, event materials, or complex kitting and fulfillment programs, our goal remains the same: deliver the right solution, at the right quality, at the right time.
Built by People. Driven by Innovation.
Equipment can print, cut, fold, sew, glue, and finish—but it takes people to know how to bring everything together.
Our 25-year journey has been defined by the people who operate our equipment, manage our projects, solve production challenges, develop new technologies, work with our customers, and find a way to get the job done when the unexpected happens.
That combination of experience and innovation is what makes Direct Edge different.
We’ve never been content to simply keep doing things the way they’ve always been done. As our customers’ needs have changed, we’ve continued to invest in new technology, expand our capabilities, and develop the systems and processes necessary to support increasingly complex programs.
Looking Ahead to the Next 25 Years
We’re incredibly proud of what Direct Edge has accomplished over the past 25 years—but we’re even more excited about where we’re going.
The next chapter will bring new technology, new capabilities, new markets, and new opportunities to help our customers bring their ideas to life. Our footprint continues to grow, our capabilities continue to expand, and our commitment to our customers remains at the center of everything we do.
Most importantly, we’ll continue to invest in the people who make it all possible.
To our employees, past and present: thank you for 25 years of hard work, dedication, and belief in what Direct Edge can become.
To our customers and partners: thank you for trusting us, challenging us, and allowing us to be part of your success.
And to everyone who has helped shape Direct Edge over the past 25 years:
Thank you for being part of the journey.
25 years down. The next chapter is just getting started.