Printz Shop prints its success story with 13 Canon presses
Bengaluru-based Printz Shop is not merely what its name sounds or suggests. It’s not a typical commercial graphic print shop in a generic sense. It’s a chain of 14 outlets dotted across the length and breadth of Bengaluru city, catering for anything of commercial prints and wide-format graphics possible under the sun. What it has been powering the chain of Printz Shop’s outlets is a fleet of advanced machines, among which 13 Canon presses play the pivotal role in digital printing in a revolutionary way.
05 Dec 2025 | 744 Views | By Rahul Kumar
Santosh Kalivaraprasad, founder of Printz Shop, is a visionary who always aims at unfolding a print revolution. “In fact, every single outlet which we operate under the brand Printz Shop across Bengaluru denotes our firm dedication to quality printing and our capability to meet what exactly our clients want,” he said.
He added that Printz Shop’s current production setups are home to the advanced 13 Canon digital presses and other capable machines of different technological platforms and formats.
According to Santosh, Printz Shop is an outcome of his years of relentless pursuit for innovation and excellence in printing. From a young age, he exhibited a natural aptitude for technology and innovation. His professional journey started from being an engineering graduate then to a print entrepreneur today. He said, “It all began with my job at AXA where I honed my skill and gained valuable experience in the technology sector.”
He added, “It had been my entrepreneurial spirit and passion for print innovation that eventually drove me to launch Printz Shop in 2018, with an aim for catering comprehensive print solutions equally to corporate clients from diverse sectors and individuals from different walks of life.” He continues to mention that Printz Shop has emerged as a trailblazer in the landscape of Bengaluru’s printing market, offering unbeaten print quality and graphic innovations using a raft of 13 Canon machines and others.
Of all the 13 Canon digital colour production presses now running productively and efficiently at Printz Shop, it was the imagePRESS C710 that arrived first in 2020, and the latest one being the ImageRunner Advance DX 8986 installed in the early part of 2025.
“Empowered by our huge family of Canon digital presses, we now confidently say ‘yes’ to every demand of digitally-printed quality graphics and short-run items from corporate biggies and walk-in customers who are ideally so quality conscious,” Santosh said, adding, “Also, we strictly maintain their strictest delivery deadlines.”
The family of 13 Canon digital colour production presses at Printz Shop is composed of four iPR V700 units, one iPR C710 unit, one iPR C650 unit, four iR-ADV DX 8986 units, and three iR-ADV DX 8786 units. “With our formidable presence in Bengaluru with an expansive network of 14 outlets and a vast portfolio of machines, we make sure that our customers in any part of the city can conveniently access our service and products,” Santosh said.
In addition to the 13 Canon digital presses, Printz Shop has yet another Canon family comprising 15 plotters for signage and promotional graphic applications.
“We engage in large-format printing too, which eventually makes us a one-stop corner for all commercial and digital large-format printing solutions,” Santosh said. The 15 multifunctional Canon plotters at Printz Shop include two units of Canon ImagePrograf TZ-5300, four units of ImagePrograf TX-5300, one unit of ImagePrograf TX-5320, five units of ImagePrograf TX-5350, and three units of ImagePrograf TM-5300.
Backed by a team of 51 skilled professionals, Printz Shop is extensively engaging in commercial and digital large-format printing. Quite ambitious about expanding footprints beyond the current chain of 14 outlets in Bengaluru city,
Santosh, with a keen eye on strategic growth, is envisioning further to foray into the new markets and territories soon. “In future, we like to strengthen our partnership with Canon India, perhaps, with more new machines. In addition to all the groundbreaking machines, we rate the after-sales service support from the team Canon India as one of the best in the industry with the lowest downtime and fastest response time,” Santosh said.