01 / Design Design
Structural designers, engineers, and project managers who know exactly what the presses can do. Every piece is concepted, prototyped, and specced before a single sheet runs, with color managed to G7 Master standards.
The equipmentSee the equipment → The biggest names in American retail trust Graphic Systems as the production partner behind the idea: the shop that takes an approved design and ships it correctly, at scale, on the promised date. One roof in Minneapolis since 1971.
Counter display
Foil and finish
New Era
Google
Sleep Number
Dimensional
Windows
Wayfinding
Tester unit
Printed textureNational rollouts for national names, most of them for many years running. The logos change with the seasons. The standard never does.
Most shops do one of these. We built the whole line under one roof, which is why the details never fall through the cracks between your designer, your printer, and your shipper.
01 / Design Structural designers, engineers, and project managers who know exactly what the presses can do. Every piece is concepted, prototyped, and specced before a single sheet runs, with color managed to G7 Master standards.
02 / Produce Two Agfa Tauro hybrids, an Inca Onset X2 flatbed, HP Latex and Indigo lines, six photographic printers, and Zund digital cutting. Printed, cut, laminated, and finished on one floor in Minneapolis.
03 / Fulfill Kitting, packaging, and national store rollouts backed by GS Online, our inventory and ordering portal. Every store gets exactly what it needs, intact and on time, at the lowest freight cost we can engineer.
The best digital printers and finishing equipment in the industry, running seven color plus white, gloss, and varnish, holding text down to four point type across sheets over ten feet wide.
The approved design, not a version of it.
The promised date, not close enough.
The same standard, every single time.
Environments, signage, backlits, wallcoverings, textures, and displays, shot in the stores they were built for.
“We want a sign of this dog in the corner, and the tail needs to wag for six weeks.”
They walked in with a tin full of candy and that request. Our team engineered a small, long lasting battery and motor light enough to hang anywhere, and the tail wagged in stores for six straight weeks. Even the dog was happy with the results.
Williams SonomaWe are not all bark!The wagging dog, from crazy request to six weeks of uptime.
Sleep NumberMaking it snow!Prismatic snowflakes at double the budget? Specialty inks matched the effect, on time and on budget.
LuxotticaBrighter is betterHoliday sparkle, engineered: blinking lights glowing through a semi opaque substrate.
Solar panels have powered the roof of our production plant since 2014.
Graphic Systems has run from the same plant at 2632 26th Avenue South since 1996. Solar panels on the roof, a floor full of presses below, and a team that has been making big, beautiful, brilliant things for decades.
Come see your project on the floor. You will find us fast, friendly, and fair.
The lobby · printed in house
The whole team · one roof Tell us what you are making. We will take it from inquiry through installation, and manage every step in between.