Top commercial printing companies in Texas, ranked by ChatGPT answers

Places ChatGPT showed

• DALLAS PRINTING · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Einstein Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• PrintCity USA · 4.3★ · Commercial printer
• Print Shoppe · 4.4★ · Commercial printer
• American Color Labs · 4.2★ · Sign shop
• H Town Printing Services. Printing, Digital Printing, Screen Printer, brochures, catalogs, flyers, banners · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Papergraphics Printing · 4.9★ · Commercial printer

If you're looking for commercial printers in Texas, rather than consumer copy shops, I'd shortlist companies based on the type of work you need. Texas has a very large commercial-print market, with particularly strong options in Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

Strong Texas options

• DALLAS PRINTING — Dallas
  Full-service commercial printer with digital and offset printing, large-format graphics, design, and direct mail. It has been serving clients since 1970, making it a good option for substantial business-printing programs.
• Einstein Printing — Carrollton / DFW
  Offers digital and offset printing, wide-format graphics, finishing/bindery, direct mail, and design. Its location makes it particularly convenient for North Dallas/DFW clients.
• PrintCity USA — Dallas
  A broad one-stop operation covering digital/offset, variable-data printing, books, wide format, signs, banners, and direct mail. Useful if you want multiple production services handled by one vendor.
• Print Shoppe — Austin
  Particularly relevant for commercial print + direct mail, including EDDM and variable-data printing. It also supports AEC/construction printing.
• American Color Labs — Austin
  Better suited to large-format and visual graphics: vehicle/fleet graphics, signage, banners, trade-show displays, wall/window/floor graphics, and related commercial printing.
• H Town Printing Services — Houston
  Offers commercial/digital printing, brochures, catalogs, booklets, labels, banners, signage and bindery services.
• Best Press — Addison/DFW
  Worth considering for larger, more sophisticated commercial jobs. SMU currently lists Best Press among its full-service commercial printers, with digital and offset printing, prepress, direct mail, fulfillment, kitting, warehousing, wide format and specialty printing.
• Papergraphics Printing — Temple
  A well-reviewed Central Texas commercial printer that can handle ordinary business printing as well as more involved projects involving design, finishing and mailing.

If I were narrowing the field by project

One useful independent benchmark: SMU's current commercial-printing supplier list identifies Best Press, Blanks Printing & Digital Solutions, Brodnax21C Printers, and Millet the Printer as full-service commercial printers, and Ennis Graphics as a print-ready printer.

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g., 10,000 brochures, packaging, catalogs, books, direct mail, labels, etc.), approximate quantity, and which Texas city you're near, I can narrow this to 3–5 companies that are specifically suited to your job and compare their capabilities, minimums, turnaround, and likely pricing.

Places ChatGPT showed

• The Voom Group | Commercial Printing & Print Management Solutions · 4.7★ · Commercial printer
• ImageSet - Print, Mail, Signage, Marketing & Promo · 5.0★ · Printing shop
• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Einstein Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Accelerate Print Group · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Sir Speedy Print, Signs, Marketing · 5.0★ · Print shop
• Allegra Marketing Print Mail · 5.0★ · Print shop

If you're a mid-size company's marketing team, I'd look for a printer that can do more than basic business cards—especially campaign production, direct mail, variable-data personalization, fulfillment, signage/trade-show work, and repeat-order/brand management.

Based on current Texas offerings, these are worth putting on an RFP shortlist:

• The Voom Group — Plano / DFW. Particularly relevant if you want a longer-term print-management relationship. It combines commercial printing, mailing, fulfillment, signage, and repeat-order systems, which can reduce the operational work for an in-house marketing team.
• ImageSet - Print, Mail, Signage, Marketing & Promo — Houston. A strong fit for teams running recurring campaigns because it offers commercial print, direct-mail processing/fulfillment, list management, and variable-data personalization.
• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing — Houston. Offers offset, digital, wide-format, finishing, and direct-mail production, making it useful when one campaign spans multiple print formats.
• Einstein Printing — Carrollton / DFW. Broad commercial-print capabilities plus wide-format, direct mail, finishing, and design support; its 168-review business listing also gives you a relatively substantial public customer-review base to investigate.
• Accelerate Print Group — Plano / DFW. Especially relevant for marketing departments handling direct mail + trade shows/events + promotional products. It supports list management, postal processing, large-format displays, and recurring marketing programs.
• Sir Speedy Print, Signs, Marketing — Houston. Offers commercial print alongside variable-data direct mail, list/data management, kitting/fulfillment, design, signage, and marketing support.
• Allegra Marketing Print Mail — Addison / North Dallas. Its service mix is geared toward marketing departments: commercial collateral, direct-mail planning and production, list management, signage, creative support, and marketing consultation.
• AlphaGraphics — a particularly broad option if you want a combination of marketing services and print production. Its Texas locations offer direct marketing, personalized/variable-data printing, mailing/fulfillment, large-format work, and campaign support.

How I'd structure the RFP

For a mid-size marketing team, I'd ask each vendor to quote the same hypothetical campaign, rather than simply asking for a price-per-piece:

1. 5,000 personalized postcards
2. 2,000 premium brochures
3. 500 presentation folders
4. 3–5 large-format/trade-show graphics
5. Mailing, list processing and fulfillment
6. Storage and reordering of approved collateral
7. Typical turnaround for rush and normal jobs
8. Proofing/color-management process
9. Online ordering/approval workflow
10. Pricing at 1k / 5k / 10k / 25k quantities

That will expose the differences between a printer that's simply good at producing print and one that's capable of functioning as a marketing-production partner.

If you tell me whether you're primarily in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, or elsewhere in Texas, I can narrow this to 5 vendors in your market and compare capabilities, reviews, locations, and likely fit for a mid-size marketing department.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Dimaco Printing and Mailing · 5.0★ · Digital printing service
• Shweiki Media Printing Company · 3.9★ · Commercial printer
• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Thompson Print & Mailing Solutions · 4.4★ · Print shop
• ImageSet - Print, Mail, Signage, Marketing & Promo · 5.0★ · Printing shop
• Republic Print & Mail · 4.8★ · Print shop
• Allegra Marketing Print Mail · 5.0★ · Print shop
• Horizon Printing and Mailing · 4.4★ · Commercial printer

If you're looking across Texas rather than just one metro, I'd shortlist these based on their documented combination of commercial printing, direct mail, mailing/fulfillment, and catalog/publication capabilities. I’m not treating “best” as a universal ranking—the right choice depends heavily on volume, geography, catalog size, and how much mailing/data work you want outsourced.

My practical shortlist

For catalogs/publications + mailing: I'd investigate Shweiki, Disc Pro and Thompson first. Shweiki is particularly publication-oriented, while Disc Pro explicitly lists catalogs, magazines and booklets alongside direct mail.

For sophisticated direct-mail campaigns: Dimaco is worth a close look. It says it handles list acquisition, NCOA/data processing, printing, variable-data personalization, USPS presort/induction and tracking in-house in Carrollton.

For Houston: Disc Pro and ImageSet are two candidates I'd put on the quote list. ImageSet describes a turnkey process including list processing, address validation, printing, addressing, sorting and USPS delivery.

For Austin: Republic Print & Mail is interesting if personalization is important; it specifically supports direct mail and variable-data printing.

One other option is Crest Printing in Houston, which explicitly offers catalogs, offset printing, variable-data printing, finishing and direct-mail printing/mailing.

What I'd ask for in the RFQ

For a catalog/direct-mail project, don't compare just the per-piece print price. Ask each printer to quote the same complete scope:

• Catalog size, page count and paper stock
• Quantity and color specifications
• Binding: saddle stitch, perfect bind, etc.
• Personalization/variable data
• List acquisition, NCOA/CASS cleanup and deduplication
• Addressing and inserting
• USPS postage and presort discounts
• Estimated production + in-home dates
• Proofing process
• Freight/shipping
• Storage and fulfillment for subsequent drops
• Cost at several quantities, e.g. 10K / 25K / 50K / 100K

For catalogs specifically, I'd also ask whether they can print, bind, address and mail the catalog without handing it off to a third-party mail house. That can make a substantial difference in both coordination and total cost.

If you tell me your Texas metro (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, etc.), approximate catalog quantity/page count, and whether you need list + mailing handled, I can narrow this to 5–6 companies and compare their capabilities and current reviews.

Places ChatGPT showed

• RushMyPrints · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Quik Print · 4.3★ · Print shop
• Crest Printing, LLC · 4.7★ · Commercial printer
• Sel-Fast Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Dallas Print · 4.9★ · Printing shop
• Texas Signs & Printing - Commercial Printer, Digital Printing Services · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Precision Press Printing & Graphics · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• B&B Printing · 5.0★ · Digital printing service

If turnaround speed is the priority, several Texas commercial printers advertise same-day or 24-hour production. The fastest options I found are concentrated in Houston and DFW.

A few particularly notable claims:

• ISGCxPress in Carrollton advertises orders placed by 1 p.m. CT being ready for pickup by 6 p.m. or delivered that evening in DFW. It specifically offers same-day business cards, postcards, flyers and other commercial products.
• Vivera Printing in the Dallas/Fort Worth area advertises same-day production as quick as 2 hours for qualifying products, including business cards, postcards, brochures, booklets and flyers.
• ShopSign in Houston says print-ready stock orders approved by 10 a.m. go into the same day's production run; specialty stocks and finishing can take longer.
• Rapid Color advertises 24/7 rush production and same-/next-day production on most products, serving Austin, Houston, Fort Worth and San Antonio.

If you need the absolute fastest possible job, I'd contact ISGCxPress or Vivera for DFW, and RushMyPrints, Crest, or Sel-Fast for Houston, giving them the exact quantity, finished size, stock, finishing requirements and deadline. Turnaround promises usually apply only to qualifying products with print-ready artwork, and shipping/finishing can add time.

If you tell me which Texas city and what you're printing (e.g. 5,000 brochures, 10,000 postcards, business cards, booklets), I can narrow this to the fastest realistic options and compare their published cutoff times.

Places ChatGPT showed

• DALLAS PRINTING · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• AlphaGraphics · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Minuteman Press Fort Worth Stockyards / Downtown / Dickie's Arena · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Little Giant Printers · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Metropolitan Press · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Brumley Printing · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Millet the Printer, Inc. · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Lawton Printing and Graphics · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Digital Press Printing · 3.0★ · Digital printer

If by “reliable” you mean a combination of established local presence, broad commercial capabilities, and strong current customer-review signals, there are several DFW printers worth getting quotes from. I’d focus on these rather than simply picking the highest-rated shop.

Strong DFW commercial-printing options

• DALLAS PRINTING — Dallas
  A particularly broad commercial operation: digital and offset printing, large-format, direct mail, fulfillment, labels, packaging, and shipping/mailing. It has served the area since 1970, and current business listings show a 5.0/5 rating from 90 reviews.
  Good for: recurring business printing, catalogs, brochures, direct mail, larger runs.
• AlphaGraphics — Downtown Dallas
  Full-service commercial printing plus signage, design, wide-format, finishing, and fulfillment. The Dallas location currently shows 4.9/5 from 62 reviews.
  Good for: companies wanting printing plus design/marketing support and quick-turn projects.
• Minuteman Press Fort Worth Stockyards / Downtown / Dickie's Arena — Fort Worth
  Offers digital and offset printing, direct mail, signage, promotional products, embroidery, and related services. The location currently has 5.0/5 from 157 reviews.
  Good for: Fort Worth businesses needing a local, full-service print partner.
• Little Giant Printers — North Richland Hills
  A long-established local commercial printer offering short- and long-run digital/offset printing, finishing, and mailing services. Current listing: 4.9/5 from 119 reviews.
  Good for: Mid-Cities/Fort Worth-area businesses and recurring commercial jobs.
• Metropolitan Press — Dallas
  Commercial printer with digital and offset capabilities, plus marketing collateral, direct mail, signage, and promotional work. Current listing: 4.8/5 from 41 reviews.
  Good for: traditional business collateral and organizations that want hands-on local service.
• Brumley Printing — Fort Worth
  Family-owned full-service commercial printer operating since 1990, with offset and digital printing and direct-mail capabilities. Current listing: 4.8/5 from 26 reviews.
  Good for: brochures, catalogs, postcards/direct mail, business cards, and higher-volume offset work.
• Millet the Printer, Inc. — Dallas
  A long-running Dallas commercial printer with offset, digital, prepress/color management, specialty finishing, and letterpress-style capabilities.
  Good for: premium-quality pieces, specialty finishing, demanding color work, and projects where physical presentation matters.

A couple of specialized choices

• Lawton Printing and Graphics — especially relevant if you're in architecture, engineering, or construction. It specializes in plan sets, specifications, submittals, document control, and wide-format output.
• Digital Press Printing — Crowley; offers digital, offset, large-format, books/booklets, labels, direct mail, and signage, making it a useful option for a wide variety of commercial jobs.

What I'd compare before choosing

For a recurring commercial-printing relationship, I'd send the exact same RFQ to 3–4 companies and compare:

1. Per-piece price at your actual quantity.
2. Turnaround, including proofing and delivery.
3. Paper/substrate options and whether they stock what you need.
4. Color consistency from run to run.
5. Finishing — folding, binding, die-cutting, lamination, foil, etc.
6. Mailing/fulfillment if you're sending the pieces directly to customers.
7. Whether they provide a dedicated account/contact person.
8. How they handle reprints, defects, and missed deadlines.

For context, independent local-business research also identifies companies such as Hill Print Solutions, DALLAS PRINTING, The Odee Company, Bass Printing, and River Oaks Printing among established DFW-area printing providers, with documented histories and broad commercial capabilities.

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g., 10,000 brochures, books, packaging, direct mail, business cards), approximate quantity, and whether you're closer to Dallas, Fort Worth, or the mid-cities, I can narrow this to 3–5 particularly appropriate vendors and compare their capabilities and current reviews.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Print-O-Graph of America · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• LP Printing · 4.7★ · Commercial printer
• ImageSet - Print, Mail, Signage, Marketing & Promo · 5.0★ · Printing shop
• ABC Imaging - Houston · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Speedy Printing - W. Alabama St. · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Minuteman Press Printing · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Minuteman Press Heights · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• H Town Printing Services. Printing, Digital Printing, Screen Printer, brochures, catalogs, flyers, banners · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Sel-Fast Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer

If by “best” you mean strong commercial capabilities, reputation, and breadth of services, these are several Houston-area printers I’d put on a shortlist. I’m not ranking them overall because the right choice depends heavily on whether you need offset, digital, large-format, direct mail, fulfillment, or specialty finishing.

• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing — Particularly worth considering for true commercial production: offset + digital printing, large-format graphics, bindery/finishing, and direct-mail fulfillment. It has a 5.0 rating across 36 business-profile reviews in the current local results.
• Print-O-Graph of America — A long-established West Houston printer with a commercial offset focus; the company says it has served Greater Houston since 1985. Good candidate for traditional commercial print runs.
• LP Printing — Full-service commercial printing covering marketing collateral, wide-format work, finishing, and mailing/EDDM. Its current business listing shows 4.7/5 from 86 reviews.
• ImageSet - Print, Mail, Signage, Marketing & Promo — A good option if your project extends beyond printing into direct mail, fulfillment, variable-data personalization, signage, and promotional products.
• ABC Imaging - Houston — Strong fit for fast-turnaround business printing, large-format/reprographics, and finishing, particularly around the Galleria/Uptown area.
• Speedy Printing - W. Alabama St. — Full-service commercial printer serving businesses and organizations, with marketing collateral, event materials, large-format/signage, finishing and mailing support.
• Minuteman Press Printing — Downtown option with a broad commercial-printing menu: brochures, catalogs, booklets, manuals, folders, direct mail, signage and promotional materials. Its current local profile shows 4.8/5 from 28 reviews.
• Minuteman Press Heights — Worth a look for businesses needing both larger commercial jobs and quick-turnaround work; the current profile has 249 reviews and a 5.0 rating.
• H Town Printing Services — Particularly broad digital/commercial capabilities, including booklets, catalogs, brochures, labels, banners and binding.
• Sel-Fast Printing — A long-running Houston shop that emphasizes fast turnaround, commercial printing, posters/signage, mounting, laminating and bulk mailing.

If I were narrowing the list

For a substantial corporate/commercial print program, I'd get quotes from Disc Pro, LP Printing, Print-O-Graph, and ImageSet. Their capabilities cover much more than basic copy-shop printing. Current Houston commercial-printing directories also identify CME Printing, Bayside Printing, Simon Printing, Catdi and 1to1 Printers among the established local options.

If you tell me what you're printing (e.g. 10,000 brochures, catalogs, books, direct mail, packaging, trade-show materials), quantity, and whether you need design/mailing/fulfillment, I can narrow this to 3–5 Houston printers that are specifically suited to the job and compare their capabilities, locations, reviews, and websites.

Places ChatGPT showed

• ND4C.com · 3.6★ · Commercial printer
• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• LP Printing · 4.7★ · Commercial printer

If your main criterion is lowest total cost on high-volume commercial work, I’d get quotes from several Texas printers rather than rely on advertised retail prices. High-volume pricing is usually quote-based, and the cheapest option can change substantially with paper stock, color coverage, finishing, freight, and whether the job is offset or digital.

Here are the Texas companies I’d include in a quote comparison:

• ND4C.com — Houston — A trade-only/wholesale printer serving print resellers, agencies and brokers. Its wholesale model makes it particularly worth quoting for commodity-style, high-volume work.
• Disc Pro Graphics & Printing — Houston — Offers offset, digital, finishing and mailing under one roof, including high-volume offset production.
• LP Printing — Houston — Has both sheet-fed offset and digital presses, including a 6-color + coater Heidelberg, making it a good candidate for larger runs.
• Community Impact Printing — Pflugerville/Austin area — Particularly relevant for very large recurring quantities; it describes production of hundreds of thousands of publications weekly.
• AC Printing — Euless/DFW — Commercial production facility with in-house prepress, press, bindery and fulfillment; useful for large recurring corporate/public-sector jobs.
• Omega Printing — Irving/DFW — Offers both digital and offset production plus finishing and fulfillment, so it's worth including for larger corporate runs.
• Sixth Street Printing — Austin — Offers offset and digital printing; local customer feedback specifically mentions competitive pricing and savings versus larger alternatives.
• PrintMailPro — Dallas/Austin — Handles runs from 1 to 1,000,000+ pieces and combines offset/digital printing with fulfillment and mailing, which can reduce the overall cost when postage and distribution are part of the job.
• Copy Cat Printing — Dallas — One of the more transparent options for comparing prices because it publishes quantity pricing. For example, its listed 5,000-copy prices are $249 for 4×6 flyers and $575 for 8.5×11 flyers, while also advertising volume discounts.

What I'd ask each printer to quote

Send the exact same RFQ to 5–7 companies:

> Quantity: 25,000 / 50,000 / 100,000 > Finished size: [size] > Pages: [number] > Printing: 4/4 CMYK > Stock: [weight/type] > Finishing: [fold/bind/cut/etc.] > Packaging: [cartons/pallets] > Delivery ZIP: [ZIP] > Required delivery date: [date]

Ask them to break out printing, setup/plates, finishing, packaging, freight, and any fulfillment/mailing costs separately. That makes the quotes genuinely comparable.

For 500–1,000+ pieces, offset often becomes more economical than digital as quantity rises; Catdi, for example, explicitly describes offset as its high-volume option and digital as the better fit for shorter/variable-data runs.

If you tell me what you're printing, quantity (e.g. 50k/100k/500k), finished size, number of pages, paper stock, and your Texas delivery ZIP, I can narrow this to the 3–5 printers most likely to be price-competitive and find their current quote/contact pages.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Simon Printing Company · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Brumley Printing · 4.8★ · Commercial printer
• Little Giant Printers · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Hawkeye Printing and Graphics · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• Einstein Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• CenTex Printing, Inc. · 4.2★ · Commercial printer
• Papergraphics Printing · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Austin Texas Print, Inc. · 4.9★ · Commercial printer
• Print Shoppe · 4.4★ · Commercial printer
• Sel-Fast Printing · 5.0★ · Commercial printer
• LP Printing · 4.7★ · Commercial printer

If by “trusted” you mean established, family/local ownership + a meaningful commercial-printing operation + evidence of repeat business/customer confidence, there are several Texas printers worth putting on a shortlist. I’d separate them from national chains and franchise locations.

Texas family- or locally owned commercial printers to consider

• Simon Printing Company — Houston
  A particularly established family operation: Simon says it was founded in 1935 and is now fourth-generation family owned and operated. It handles offset, digital, wide-format, and finishing work for local and national clients.
• Brumley Printing — Fort Worth
  Family-owned since 1990, with commercial printing, marketing, promotional products, and design. Its customer feedback emphasizes responsiveness and meeting deadlines.
• Little Giant Printers — North Richland Hills / DFW
  Locally owned with a four-generation family-business heritage and Texas operations dating to 1985. Offers commercial printing, finishing, direct mail and design.
• Hawkeye Printing and Graphics — Roanoke / DFW
  Family-owned, with digital/offset commercial printing plus wide-format graphics, signage and design. Its current customer feedback is particularly strong on communication and service.
• Einstein Printing — Carrollton / North Dallas
  A full-service commercial printer offering digital and offset, wide format, finishing, direct mail and design. Its business listing currently shows 168 reviews at 5.0, making it one of the more substantial customer-review signals among the local DFW options I found.
• CenTex Printing, Inc. — Temple / Central Texas
  Family-owned and connected to Temple's printing history going back to 1920. It handles commercial and short-run work, including business materials, labels and production materials.
• Papergraphics Printing — Temple
  Long-running family-owned commercial printer serving businesses, schools and nonprofits, with a broad range of business printing and finishing. Its current business listing shows 4.9 stars from 146 reviews.
• Austin Texas Print, Inc. — Austin
  Locally owned and family-run, with paper printing, signage, promotional products, apparel and event/convention work. Its current listing shows 4.9 stars from 58 reviews.
• Print Shoppe — Austin
  Locally owned commercial printing and mailing operation, particularly relevant if you want printing integrated with mailing.
• Sel-Fast Printing — Houston
  Family-owned Houston printer with a long operating history and capabilities spanning commercial print, posters/signage, finishing and bulk mailing. Its current listing shows 5.0 stars from 27 reviews.
• LP Printing — Houston
  Full-service commercial printer covering business collateral, wide-format, finishing/bindery and related services; its current listing shows 4.7 stars from 86 reviews.

Larger family-owned operations

Two names stand out if you need more production capacity than a typical local print shop:

• Thomas Printworks — Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. It's in its third generation of family ownership, has more than 600 employees and serves the A/E/C sector particularly heavily.
• Newman Printing Company — Houston. Newman describes itself as the only major Houston-area printing firm to have remained under continuous single-family ownership for more than 70 years, and says it is among Houston's 20 largest printers.

There's also PrintMailPro, which describes itself as the largest locally owned printing company in the Dallas/Austin market and offers high-volume printing, direct mail, fulfillment, warehousing and logistics.

A useful way to narrow this down

If you're selecting a printer for ongoing business work rather than a one-off job, I'd compare them on:

• Annual volume/capacity — can they comfortably handle 10,000 vs. 500,000+ pieces?
• Offset + digital — useful when you have both long and short runs.
• Finishing — binding, folding, die cutting, UV/aqueous coating, perfect binding, etc.
• Mailing/fulfillment — important if the printer will ship directly to customers.
• Color management/proofing — particularly important for branded materials.
• Account management — whether you get a dedicated person who knows your recurring jobs.
• Local production — whether work is actually produced in Texas rather than brokered elsewhere.

If you tell me which Texas metro (Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, etc.) and what you're printing (e.g. catalogs, brochures, packaging, direct mail, books, corporate collateral), I can narrow this to 5–7 genuinely comparable local/family-owned commercial printers and compare their capabilities, reputation, ownership and approximate scale.