Funding for Printing & Signage Shops
Print and sign shops are equipment businesses carrying commercial receivables — a natural fit for equipment financing at up to 100% of cost, lines of credit that bridge net-30 invoices, and asset-based programs that lend against what you are owed.
In printing, capacity is destiny. The shop with the wide-format flatbed, the faster digital press, or the in-house finishing line bids jobs the others cannot touch — and the equipment that gets you there costs more than most owners can pull from cash flow. Meanwhile the work you have already delivered sits in receivables: good commercial clients who reliably pay in thirty or sixty days, which is thirty or sixty days your suppliers will not wait. Broadway covers both ends: equipment financing up to 100% of cost for the iron, and working capital or receivable-based programs for the gap. One short form, three months of bank statements, a soft credit pull, same-day decision, funding in as little as 24 hours.
The challenge
Your business is a race between machine capability and receivables. Commercial clients pay net 30 or net 60 while ink, substrate, and the equipment lease run on their own clock — and the shop with the newer flatbed wins the bids you used to.
How Broadway Advance helps
Print and sign shops are equipment businesses carrying commercial receivables — a natural fit for equipment financing at up to 100% of cost, lines of credit that bridge net-30 invoices, and asset-based programs that lend against what you are owed.
What owners use it for
- Finance a wide-format printer, flatbed, or digital press that opens new bid categories
- Bridge net-30 and net-60 commercial invoices without shorting suppliers
- Stock ink, vinyl, substrate, and paper in volume at better pricing
- Add finishing equipment — laminators, routers, cutters — to keep jobs in-house
- Cover payroll on a big job between deposit and final payment
- Buy or wrap an install vehicle and bucket truck for the signage side
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Apply nowFunding options that fit printing & signage shops
Equipment Financing
Buy the equipment you need; the equipment itself secures the deal.
Up to 100% of equipment cost →Business Line of Credit
A revolving cash reserve you only pay for when you draw on it.
Flexible limits →Asset-Based Lending
Turn real estate, inventory, equipment, or credit into working capital.
Based on asset value →Printing & Signage Shops funding questions
A new flatbed would let me bid work I currently turn away. How much can I finance?
Broadway's equipment financing covers up to 100% of equipment cost, so a strong applicant can put a press on the floor with little or no cash down. The machine is the collateral, which keeps pricing well below working capital products. Underwriting still runs through the same short process — one form, three months of bank statements, soft credit pull. The discipline is on the revenue side: have real jobs or bids in hand that the new capacity wins, not just a hope.
My clients are solid but slow payers. Is there a product built around receivables?
Yes — asset-based lending and receivable-focused programs lend against the invoices themselves, which suits a shop whose money is tied up in good commercial accounts. You typically access a percentage of eligible receivables, and the facility grows as your billing grows. The trade-off versus an MCA is more documentation and a slower setup; the payoff is cheaper, larger, recurring capacity. For a one-time crunch, a fast advance may still be the practical answer.
Lease the equipment or finance it through you — what's the real difference?
Financing builds equity: you own the press at the end, and with up to 100% of cost covered, the cash outlay can look lease-like anyway. Leasing can make sense for technology you expect to swap every few cycles, and some manufacturers subsidize their lease rates — compare those offers honestly. The trap to avoid is funding a long-lived machine with short-term expensive capital. Match the money's term to the machine's working life and most of the decision makes itself.