ChatGPT's shortlist: commercial printing companies in Ohio

Places ChatGPT showed

• PXPOHIO · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Jakprints · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Progressive Printers Inc. · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Hopkins Printing · 4.6★ · Commercial printer
• Capitol Square Printing Inc · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Able Printing Company · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• ImagineThis Wholesale Printing · 5.0★ · Print shop

If you're looking for commercial printing in Ohio, rather than ordinary copy shops, these are some companies worth putting on your shortlist. I’m not treating “best” as a definitive ranking; the right choice depends heavily on volume, turnaround, finishing, mailing, and format.

• PXPOHIO — Reynoldsburg/Columbus area
  Full-service commercial printer with 50+ years in the Columbus market. Offers digital and offset printing, including brochures, booklets, folders, flyers and other business materials.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland
  A strong option for businesses in Northeast Ohio; current business listings show a 5.0 rating from 55 reviews.
• Jakprints — Willoughby/Cleveland area
  Particularly relevant for custom, short-run and creative printing. It serves businesses as well as designers, artists and organizations and is one of the more established Cleveland-area options.
• Progressive Printers Inc. — Dayton
  A commercial printer serving the Dayton market, with a current 4.8 rating across 81 reviews.
• Hopkins Printing — Columbus
  Another Columbus commercial-printing option, located near Easton/Citygate.
• Capitol Square Printing Inc — Columbus
  Convenient for downtown Columbus businesses and currently listed at 4.8/5 from 40 reviews.
• Able Printing Company — Columbus
  A smaller commercial printer with a 4.9/5 rating from 32 reviews; potentially worth considering when personalized service is important.
• ImagineThis Wholesale Printing — Massillon
  Particularly worth investigating for wholesale/production-oriented work; its current listing shows 5.0/5 from 137 reviews.

How I'd narrow it down

For large corporate print runs, offset work, brochures, booklets and direct mail, I'd get quotes from PXPOHIO and a couple of larger regional printers.

For creative/custom or shorter runs, Jakprints is worth a quote.

For Dayton-area work, Progressive Printers is a natural local candidate.

For Cleveland/Northeast Ohio, compare Northern Ohio Printing and Jakprints.

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g., 50,000 brochures, catalogs, packaging, direct mail, books, trade-show materials) and your approximate quantity/budget, I can narrow this to 3–5 Ohio printers that fit the job, including capabilities and contact/quote links.

Places ChatGPT showed

• PXPOHIO · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Kenwel Printers · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Vedda Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Master Printing + Mailing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Progressive Printers Inc. · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Early Express · 5.0★ · Direct mail advertising
• Allegra Marketing Print Mail · 5.0★ · Print shop

For a mid-size company’s marketing team, I’d look for more than basic print quality: strong project management, digital + offset capability, direct mail/fulfillment, variable data, signage, and ideally an online ordering or brand-management workflow.

A useful Ohio shortlist is:

• PXPOHIO — Columbus/Reynoldsburg. A particularly broad option for teams that want one vendor for commercial print, wide-format, direct mail, fulfillment, and branded online ordering. They handle everything from short digital runs to large offset jobs and personalized mail campaigns.
• Kenwel Printers — Columbus. A long-established commercial printer with digital and offset production plus substantial mailing/prepress capabilities. It looks especially appropriate for recurring marketing collateral and direct-mail programs where list hygiene, USPS preparation, and dependable execution matter.
• Vedda Printing — Cleveland. A full-service commercial printer with fulfillment capabilities; its customer profile includes businesses looking for an ongoing print partner rather than just one-off jobs.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland. Worth considering if your marketing team cares about premium finishing as well as conventional commercial printing. It offers digital and offset production, specialty finishes, direct mail, and web-to-print/fulfillment capabilities.
• Master Printing + Mailing — Berea/Cleveland area. A good fit for campaigns combining commercial print, variable-data direct mail, fulfillment, and measurable mail/digital follow-up. It also highlights G7 color certification, which can matter when brand-color consistency is important.
• Progressive Printers Inc. — Dayton. A broad commercial-print operation with digital production and additional capabilities for organizations needing repeat marketing production.
• Early Express — Dayton. Particularly interesting for a marketing team doing omnichannel campaigns: commercial printing, targeted/variable-data direct mail, mailing logistics, wide-format, design, and digital amplification are all part of its offering.
• Allegra Marketing Print Mail — Cincinnati/Blue Ash. More marketing-oriented than a traditional print-only vendor, with commercial print, direct mail, fulfillment, signage, promotional products, and complementary digital marketing services.

How I'd narrow it down

I wouldn't treat this as a definitive "best-to-worst" ranking—the right choice depends heavily on volume, geography, direct-mail requirements, turnaround, and whether you need creative/marketing services or simply production.

If you tell me your Ohio metro area (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, etc.) and what you print most often—e.g. brochures, catalogs, direct mail, trade-show materials, packaging—I can narrow this to 3–5 vendors and compare their capabilities, approximate scale, reviews, and marketing-team fit.

Places ChatGPT showed

• PXPOHIO · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Kenwel Printers · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Master Printing + Mailing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• The Watkins Printing Co · 4.6★ · Commercial printer
• Print Direct for Less · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Early Express · 5.0★ · Direct mail advertising
• Vedda Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer

If you're looking specifically for Ohio commercial printers that can handle both direct mail and catalogs, these are the companies I'd put on a quote list based on their stated capabilities and current local-business information. I’m not treating this as a subjective “#1–#10” ranking; the right choice depends heavily on volume, geography, personalization, and catalog specifications.

• PXPOHIO — Reynoldsburg/Columbus
• Particularly relevant for catalogs + direct mail under one roof.
• Offers commercial printing, booklets/catalogs, variable-data direct mail, mailing, and fulfillment. It says it can handle projects from small digital runs through large offset work.
• Good one to quote if you're in Central Ohio and want a single vendor for print-to-mail.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland
• Strong fit for catalogs/publications and direct-mail programs.
• Its product mix includes booklets/catalogs and postcards, while its mailing capabilities include EDDM and direct-mail logistics.
• Worth considering for Northeast Ohio or national work shipping out of Cleveland.
• Kenwel Printers — Columbus
• Long-established Central Ohio commercial printer offering direct mail, marketing materials, and custom print production.
• Its current site says it has served Central Ohio businesses for more than 74 years and handles personalized mailings to thousands of recipients.
• Master Printing + Mailing — Berea/Cleveland
• Especially interesting for data-driven direct mail and catalog mailers.
• Offers list targeting, variable-address printing, postal logistics, catalog mailers, and turnkey fulfillment.
• Its MasterMail+ offering also connects physical-mail campaigns with digital tracking/follow-up.
• The Watkins Printing Co — Columbus
• A particularly relevant option when publication/catalog quality is important alongside direct mail.
• It focuses on publication printing and also handles direct-mail work, making it worth including for recurring catalogs, magazines, or similar pieces.
• Print Direct for Less — Columbia Station/Cleveland area
• Offers commercial printing including catalogs, magazines, newsletters and postcards, plus direct-mail services and EDDM.
• Could be worth comparing when price is an important factor.
• Early Express — Dayton
• More marketing/mail-operation oriented: targeted lists, CASS/NCOA processing, variable-data printing, postal preparation, tracking, and EDDM.
• A useful candidate for highly targeted or recurring direct-mail campaigns.
• Vedda Printing — Cleveland
• Full-service commercial printer with mail-house capabilities, including list hygiene, NCOA, CASS/PAVE and EDDM.
• Worth a quote if you're looking for a Cleveland-area vendor that can combine printing with mailing operations.

If catalogs are a major part of the job

I'd start by requesting quotes from PXPOHIO, Northern Ohio Printing, Watkins, and Freeport Press. Freeport Press is based in New Philadelphia and explicitly specializes in magazines, catalogs and direct mail, with capabilities positioned for higher-end commercial print production.

If direct mail is the bigger priority

I'd compare Master Printing + Mailing, Pressworks, PXPOHIO, and Early Express. Pressworks, for example, describes an end-to-end operation covering design/printing through delivery, including variable data, inserting, NCOA/CASS processing and USPS compliance.

When requesting quotes, give each printer the same specs: quantity, finished catalog size, page count, paper, color, binding, personalization, mailing list size, ZIP distribution, and desired in-home date. That will make the quotes much more meaningful than comparing a generic “catalog printing” price.

If you tell me your approximate catalog quantity, page count, and whether you're mailing nationally or primarily in Ohio, I can narrow this to the most relevant 3–5 companies and compare their capabilities.

Places ChatGPT showed

• ShortStack Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• AlphaGraphics · 4.9★ · Print shop
• Minuteman Press · 5.0★ · Print shop
• Shamrock Printing · 4.8★ · Print shop
• Dayton Creative Printing, Inc. · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Printex Printing Company · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Minuteman Press · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Cloud 8 Printing · 4.7★ · Commercial printer
• RushMyPrints · Printing Services
• Angel Printing and Reproduction Inc. · 5.0★ · Digital printing service
• Kendall Printing · 4.4★ · Commercial printer

If speed is the priority, the fastest commercial printers in Ohio tend to be shops with in-house digital presses, local production, and rush/same-day workflows. Turnaround depends heavily on the product (business cards vs. booklets vs. large banners), quantity, finishing, and whether your files are print-ready, but these Ohio companies advertise or are known for rapid production options:

A few additional options:

• RushMyPrints markets same-day commercial printing in Ohio, including brochures, booklets, postcards, and large-format items.
• Angel Printing advertises next-day and same-day printing for many products such as brochures, postcards, and business cards when print-ready files are supplied.
• Kendall Printing states many jobs are completed within 1–5 days after proof approval and has expanding same-day services.

For the fastest possible turnaround, I’d usually start by contacting:

1. A local digital printer near your delivery point (pickup can save a day).
2. A shop that explicitly offers same-day production.
3. A printer with your exact product capability (for example, banners and signage often have different timelines than postcards).

If you tell me the Ohio city (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, etc.), what you’re printing, and quantity/deadline, I can narrow this to the best-fit rush printers.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Vedda Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Foote Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Keener Printing Company · 5.0★ · Print shop
• Streamline Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Minuteman Press Westlake · 5.0★ · Commercial printer

If by “reliable” you mean a combination of established track record, broad commercial capabilities, consistent customer feedback, and the ability to handle business-volume work, there are several strong Northeast Ohio options.

Strong commercial printers to consider

• Vedda Printing — Cleveland
  A long-established, family-owned commercial printer with a broad full-service operation. It has a 5.0 rating from 99 business-profile reviews in the current local data. Good candidate for recurring business printing, marketing collateral, signage, and projects where you want a local partner rather than an online-only printer.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland
  Particularly interesting for businesses needing both digital and offset printing, finishing, mailing, and fulfillment. The company says it has served the area for more than 30 years and keeps design, production, mailing, and fulfillment in-house.
• Foote Printing — Cleveland
  A particularly established operation: the company dates to 1907 and specializes in traditional offset printing, finishing, and direct mail. Its current business listing shows a 5.0 rating, while broader review aggregations also show a large number of positive reviews.
• Keener Printing Company — Euclid
  A smaller, family-oriented commercial printer with a strong local reputation. Its current profile shows 5.0 from 42 reviews. It may be worth considering if responsive, hands-on service is more important to you than having an enormous production operation.
• Streamline Printing — Valley View
  Offers commercial printing, direct mail, design, promotional products, and mailing/shipping services. Its local profile currently shows 5.0 from 26 reviews, and the company traces its Cleveland-area printing roots back decades.
• Minuteman Press Westlake — Westlake
  A full-service option for business printing, marketing collateral, direct mail, promotional products, signage, and design. Its current local profile has 5.0 from 173 reviews, giving it a relatively substantial review base.

For larger or more specialized jobs

Image Concepts in Valley View is worth a look if your project goes beyond ordinary brochures/business cards. It handles offset and digital printing, large-format graphics, specialty die cutting, trade-show displays, mailing, fulfillment, packaging, and finishing. The company has served Northeast Ohio since 1999.

Unlimited Ink is another substantial commercial operation, with Cleveland and Akron/Canton coverage and capabilities ranging from digital and sheetfed printing to heatset web and grand-format printing, plus mailing and fulfillment.

For the Akron/Canton side of Northeast Ohio, Document Concepts offers digital/laser printing, commercial offset, business forms, and in-house design, while USA Quickprint has operated in Canton since 1984 and offers digital, offset, wide-format, finishing, and design services.

My practical shortlist

Rather than ranking them, I'd put these five on the first quote-request list:

1. Vedda Printing — broad commercial work + established local operation
2. Northern Ohio Printing — digital/offset + specialty finishing + fulfillment
3. Foote Printing — long-established offset/direct-mail capability
4. Image Concepts — especially good for large-format, specialty, and complex projects
5. Unlimited Ink — particularly relevant for higher-volume commercial production

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g. 10,000 brochures, catalogs, annual reports, direct mail, labels, packaging, books, etc.), approximate quantity, and whether you're closer to Cleveland, Akron, or Canton, I can narrow this to the 3–4 companies most suited to that particular job and compare their capabilities and reputation.

Places ChatGPT showed

• AlphaGraphics · 5.0★ · Sign shop
• Bethart Printing · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Curative Printing · 4.2★ · Commercial printer
• Evolution creative solutions · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Keystone Graphics Printing & Design · 5.0★ · Commercial printer

If by “best” you mean strong commercial-printing capabilities, established local presence, and a broad range of business services, I’d put these Southwest Ohio printers on your shortlist. I’m not treating “best” as an objective ranking—different shops are better suited to different jobs.

• AlphaGraphics — Mason. Broad business-print offering: brochures, booklets, folders, manuals, labels, signage, and marketing support. Its current business listing shows 214 reviews and a 5.0 rating.
• Bethart Printing — Hamilton. A full-service local printer with digital and offset printing, variable-data printing, finishing, design, and wide-format work. Particularly worth considering for businesses in the Butler County/Middletown area.
• Curative Printing — Cincinnati. Full-service commercial printing plus labels, signage, promotional products, embroidery and fulfillment.
• Evolution creative solutions — Cincinnati. Combines commercial printing with graphic design, promotional products, branded apparel, distribution and mailing.
• Keystone Graphics Printing & Design — Cincinnati. Family-owned shop offering commercial/digital printing and design, with both digital and offset capabilities and bindery services.
• RPI Graphic Data Solutions — Cincinnati. A larger-scale operation with more than 55 years in the business, offering commercial printing, packaging, wide-format work and specialized production capabilities.
• Jos. Berning Printing Co. — Cincinnati. A fifth-generation family-owned printer dating to 1883, with offset, digital/variable-data, large-format, finishing, mailing and fulfillment.
• Perfection Print Media — Fairfield. Commercial digital/offset printing with graphic design, finishing, mailing, apparel and promotional products.
• CDS Print — Cincinnati. Especially relevant for manuals, booklets, binders, spec sheets and recurring corporate print. It also offers Web-to-Print storefronts, warehousing and print-process analysis.
• Catdi Printing — Dayton. Its Dayton facility offers digital and offset printing, wide-format and finishing, with same-day pickup available for qualifying jobs. It says the Dayton plant serves the broader Southwest Ohio region.

Which I'd investigate for different needs

• High-volume commercial/corporate work: RPI, Jos. Berning, CDS
• General business printing: AlphaGraphics, Bethart, Keystone
• Printing + direct mail/fulfillment: CDS, Evolution, Catdi
• Printing + signs/wide format: AlphaGraphics, Curative, Bethart
• Packaging/labels: RPI, Curative, Bethart
• Dayton/Miami Valley: Catdi, plus established Dayton printers such as Kendall Printing and Schuerholz Printing.

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g. 10,000 brochures, annual reports, catalogs, labels, direct mail, packaging, etc.), approximate quantity, and whether you're closer to Cincinnati, Dayton, or Middletown, I can narrow this to the most relevant 3–5 and compare their capabilities and likely fit.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Pressworks · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• PXPOHIO · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Hopkins Printing · 4.6★ · Commercial printer
• Sheridan Ohio · 4.1★ · Commercial printer
• Vedda Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Progressive Printers Inc. · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• ImagineThis Wholesale Printing · 3.0★ · Print shop

If your main criterion is lowest total cost on a genuinely high-volume commercial run, I’d get quotes from several Ohio printers rather than rely on advertised list prices—commercial print pricing varies substantially with quantity, paper, size, colors, finishing, shipping, and turnaround.

Ohio printers worth quoting

• Pressworks — Plain City/Columbus area. Particularly relevant for large offset/web runs, with in-house finishing, mailing, fulfillment, warehousing, and distribution.
• PXPOHIO — Reynoldsburg/Columbus. Handles large offset jobs, has no minimum orders, and combines printing with direct mail and fulfillment.
• Hopkins Printing — Columbus. Large commercial operation with 40-inch sheetfed presses, digital presses, bindery, mailing and fulfillment; specifically says it seeks cost-effective production solutions.
• Sheridan Ohio — Kent/Brimfield. More industrial-scale, making it worth quoting for very large catalogs, magazines, books and publication runs.
• Vedda Printing — Cleveland. Offset production for catalogs, brochures, magazines and mailers, plus high-volume envelopes and mailing services.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland. Offers both offset and digital production, finishing, direct mail and fulfillment; customer feedback cited by the company/review aggregation emphasizes reasonable pricing.
• Progressive Printers — Dayton. Full-service commercial printer with both conventional and high-speed digital production, making it another useful benchmark quote. Progressive Printers

For the absolute lowest quote

For 10,000–100,000+ identical pieces, I'd specifically ask each printer to quote sheetfed/web offset, not just digital. Offset generally becomes increasingly economical as volume rises; PXP explicitly notes that offset becomes the smarter option as volume increases.

If you're a print reseller, ImagineThis Wholesale Printing or other trade/wholesale operations may also be worth investigating, while ColorFX operates a wholesale printing operation with an Ohio/Cleveland plant.

My practical approach: send the exact same specification to 4–6 printers and compare the delivered price—not merely the per-piece printing price. Ask them to break out printing + paper + finishing + freight + mailing, because a slightly higher press price can be cheaper overall if it eliminates outsourcing or shipping.

If you tell me what you're printing, quantity (e.g. 25,000 brochures), finished size, number of pages, color, paper stock, and destination, I can narrow this to the Ohio printers most likely to produce that particular job economically and find their current quote/contact pages.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Keystone Graphics Printing & Design · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Kenwel Printers · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Progressive Printers Inc. · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Northern Ohio Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Foote Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Keener Printing Company · 5.0★ · Print shop
• The Watkins Printing Co · 4.6★ · Commercial printer
• The Printed Image · 5.0★ · Print shop
• Monk's Copy Shop Inc · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Able Printing Company · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• A-1 Printing & Promotions · 4.8★ · Promotional products supplier
• Prographics Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• PXPOHIO · 5.0★ · Commercial printer

Yes. I found a solid group of family-owned or locally owned Ohio commercial printers with long operating histories and evidence of positive business/customer relationships. Rather than treating “trusted” as a formal ranking, I’d look at ownership, longevity, capabilities, and independent review signals.

Strong Ohio options

• Keystone Graphics Printing & Design — Cincinnati
  Family-owned and operated, with roots going back to 1901. It handles business cards, brochures, catalogs, booklets, envelopes, flyers, signage and other commercial work. Its site specifically describes it as a trusted, family-owned local printer.
• Kenwel Printers — Columbus
  A locally owned commercial printer dating to 1952, with both digital and offset printing plus mailing, fulfillment and data/list services. That's particularly useful for businesses doing recurring direct-mail campaigns. Customer feedback emphasizes communication, reliability and turnaround.
• Progressive Printers Inc. — Dayton
  Family-owned commercial printer with a broad production operation, including digital and conventional commercial printing. It currently shows 4.8/5 from 81 reviews in the business listing, with review themes around long-term relationships and family-style service.
• Northern Ohio Printing — Cleveland
  Full-service commercial printer offering digital and offset production, finishing, specialty effects and direct mail. It currently shows 5.0/5 from 55 reviews in the business listing. A good candidate if you need more sophisticated marketing pieces rather than basic copying.
• Foote Printing — Cleveland
  A family-owned union commercial printer founded in 1907, offering design, printing, finishing and mailing. The combination of longevity and end-to-end production makes it worth considering for established businesses with recurring print needs.
• Keener Printing Company — Euclid/Cleveland area
  Family-owned, long-running commercial printer serving Greater Cleveland. It has 5.0/5 from 42 reviews in the current business listing, with customer feedback emphasizing responsiveness, professionalism and competitive pricing.
• The Watkins Printing Co — Columbus
  Family-owned Columbus printer particularly suited to publication printing, commercial work, direct mail and fulfillment. It has been operating for generations and has a 4.6/5 rating from 35 reviews in the current business listing.
• The Printed Image — Columbus
  A family-owned, women-owned small business established in 1998, offering both digital and offset printing along with direct mail, design and promotional products.

A few more worth checking

• Monk's Copy Shop Inc — Columbus — family-owned, especially oriented toward fast digital production, manuals, training materials and business collateral; currently 4.8/5 from 18 reviews.
• Able Printing Company — Columbus — operating since 1954, with commercial printing, design, binding, signage and inventory/storage services.
• A-1 Printing & Promotions — Bucyrus — commercial printing plus signage and promotional products; currently 4.8/5 from 96 reviews.
• Prographics Printing — Cincinnati — locally owned, serving Cincinnati businesses since 1986 with digital/offset printing and mailing.
• PXPOHIO — Reynoldsburg/Central Ohio — long-established commercial printer with roots in family ownership and a particularly broad commercial/direct-mail/fulfillment operation. Its own buyer's guide emphasizes family ownership, quality and personalized service.
• Murr Printing & Graphics — Wooster — family-owned since 1980; in 2026 it was named the Wooster Area Chamber's Small Business of the Year (15 employees or fewer). The chamber describes it as a trusted local business serving businesses and organizations throughout central Ohio.
• Vedda Printing+ — Cleveland — third-generation, family-owned commercial printer founded in 1956, with print, direct mail, fulfillment and logistics. Its website includes testimonials from organizations including Cleveland Housing Network and NASA Glenn.

If you're choosing a printer for business use

I'd narrow the list according to what you're actually printing:

• High-volume commercial / recurring business printing: Kenwel, Vedda, Watkins, PXPOHIO
• Marketing collateral and premium pieces: Northern Ohio Printing, Foote, Keystone
• Direct mail + fulfillment: Kenwel, Vedda, Watkins, PXPOHIO
• Smaller businesses wanting personal service: Keystone, Keener, Murr, Able
• Cincinnati: Keystone or Prographics
• Columbus/Central Ohio: Kenwel, Watkins, PXPOHIO, Able, The Printed Image
• Cleveland/Northeast Ohio: Vedda, Foote, Keener, Northern Ohio Printing
• Dayton: Progressive Printers

One caveat: review counts and ratings change, and “trusted” isn't a standardized designation. I would put more weight on a printer's longevity, relevant production capabilities, repeat-business references, and ability to meet your specifications than on a raw star rating.

If you tell me what part of Ohio you're targeting (e.g. Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, statewide) and what you're buying—business cards, brochures, books, packaging, direct mail, forms, etc.—I can narrow this to 5–7 locally owned printers that are particularly well suited to that type of commercial work, including contact/website information.