NAICS 323111

Commercial Printing in California

Establishments primarily engaged in commercial printing by lithographic, digital, screen and other processes.

Establishments (2023): 1,884; Statewide, California
Employees: 24,011; Mid-March employment
Annual payroll: $1.5B; All establishments
Avg. establishment size: 12.7; Employees per establishment

What acquirers look at

Secular decline in general print, but wide-format, packaging and labels are growing. Equipment collateral supports SBA leverage where cash flow alone would not.

Printing by county

Ranked by establishment count, 2023 County Business Patterns. For the crowded-versus-underserved reading, see the saturation ranking, which ranks by establishments per resident instead.

#	County	Establishments	Per 10k residents	Share of state
1	Los Angeles County	596	0.6	31.6%
2	Orange County	293	0.9	15.6%
3	San Diego County	168	0.5	8.9%
4	Alameda County	93	0.6	4.9%
5	Riverside County	85	0.3	4.5%
6	San Bernardino County	78	0.4	4.1%
7	Santa Clara County	75	0.4	4.0%
8	Sacramento County	62	0.4	3.3%
9	San Francisco County	49	0.6	2.6%
10	San Mateo County	38	0.5	2.0%
11	Ventura County	34	0.4	1.8%
12	Contra Costa County	33	0.3	1.8%
13	Fresno County	29	0.3	1.5%
14	Sonoma County	25	0.5	1.3%
15	Kern County	20	0.2	1.1%
16	San Joaquin County	17	0.2	0.9%
17	Placer County	15	0.3	0.8%
18	Santa Barbara County	15	0.3	0.8%
19	San Luis Obispo County	14	0.5	0.7%
20	Napa County	11	0.8	0.6%
21	Santa Cruz County	11	0.4	0.6%
22	Tulare County	11	0.2	0.6%
23	Marin County	10	0.4	0.5%
24	Monterey County	10	0.2	0.5%
25	Shasta County	10	0.6	0.5%

Counties in California

Printing in Los Angeles Printing in San Diego Printing in Orange Printing in Riverside Printing in San Bernardino Printing in Santa Clara Printing in Alameda Printing in Sacramento Printing in Contra Costa Printing in Fresno Printing in Kern Printing in Ventura Printing in San Francisco Printing in San Joaquin Printing in San Mateo Printing in Stanislaus Printing in Sonoma Printing in Tulare Printing in Solano Printing in Placer Printing in Santa Barbara Printing in Monterey Printing in Merced Printing in San Luis Obispo Printing in Santa Cruz Printing in Marin Printing in Yolo Printing in Butte Printing in El Dorado Printing in Shasta Printing in Imperial Madera Printing in Kings Printing in Napa Printing in Humboldt Nevada Sutter Yuba Printing in Mendocino San Benito Lake Tehama Tuolumne Calaveras Siskiyou Amador Glenn Lassen Del Norte Colusa Plumas Inyo Mariposa Trinity Mono Modoc Sierra Alpine

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns. Establishment counts, employment and annual payroll by NAICS. Retrieved 2026-09-08.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (2026Q1). Quarterly establishment counts and employment for employers covered by unemployment insurance. Retrieved 2026-09-08.