NIGP 96625: Digital Printing from an Ink Jet Plotter

NIGP 96625 Digital Printing From An Ink Jet Plotter, an Item code, encompasses state and local procurement of high-volume full-color digital printing services, including truck wraps, graphics design and layout, promotional materials, and finishing work such as lamination and installation. School districts, counties, transit authorities, and community college systems are the primary issuing bodies soliciting under this code, with recent activity concentrated across Texas, Florida, California, Georgia, and Illinois. Representative recent opportunities include Hillsborough County Public Schools' ITQ for SNS truck wraps (full-color digitally printed on Avery 1105 material for 18-foot box trucks, due April 28, 2026); the Orange County Transportation Authority's IFB for mail house services with full-color double-sided postcard printing on 100-pound matte stock (budget $427,000, due October 20, 2026); and the California Department of Water Resources' RFP for digital output and finishing services requiring in-house large-format ink-jet plotters, laminators, and flatbed equipment (responses due September 21, 2026, with a three-year contract term and November 1, 2026 anticipated start date).

Issuing bodies span state departments and purchasing cooperatives, single jurisdictions, and multi-entity cooperative purchasing vehicles. The Texas Education Agency has posted multiple education-focused procurements including custom-built instructional materials development (RFP 701-26-027, due November 13, 2026) and OER accessibility support services through the Education Service Bureau Directory cooperative (RFP 70126026, due September 23, 2026). County and municipal purchasers dominate recent volume: Santa Clara County (printing and mailing of NAV mailers, ITB due October 2, 2026), Gregg County, Texas (comprehensive printing services, RFP due June 17, 2026), DeKalb County, Georgia (ballot printing and absentee ballot mailing services, ITB due July 2, 2026), and the City of Huntsville, Texas (city-wide printing services IDIQ contract, ITB due September 17, 2026). School districts frequently use cooperative purchasing vehicles such as SAVE (Strategic Alliance for Volume Expenditures); Glendale Elementary School District and Northside Independent School District in Texas both issued recent RFPs and IFBs covering printing and binding services available to cooperative members. Transit authorities, particularly the Agency for Community Transit and Madison County Transit in Illinois, solicited compressed-timeline printing work (schedule rack cards, pre-trip inspection cards, and brochures, due August 6, 2026) with federal CMAQ and ATP grant funding and prevailing wage requirements. Academic institutions including Collin County Community College District, Maricopa County Community College District, Florida Atlantic University, and Clayton County Public Schools (Georgia) posted multiple printing and digital content distribution solicitations. Geographic spread is heaviest in Texas, with secondary concentration in Florida, California, Georgia, and Illinois, reflecting both state-level education and transportation funding and routine municipal and county printing demand.