Exhibit 99.1

ARC Document Solutions Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012

WALNUT CREEK, CA—(February 28, 2013)—ARC Document Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ARC), the nation’s leading document solutions company for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012.

Business Highlights:

Financial Highlights:

Management Commentary:

“The aggressive and ambitious restructuring plan we announced in November helped us avoid what could have been a significantly depressed earnings per share and cash performance in the fourth quarter of 2012,” said K. “Suri” Suriyakumar, Chairman, President and CEO of ARC Document Solutions. “A timely response was critical to transition the company in line with the dramatic changes we observed in our customers’ behavior.”

“While our organization continues to strengthen its position as a leading document solutions provider, I am pleased with the speed and efficiency with which we implemented our restructuring plan,” added Mr. Suriyakumar. “ It not only provided a strong finish for the year, but our improved cost structure certainly will allow us to deliver significantly better performance in 2013 even without a full recovery in the AEC industry.”

CFO John Toth commented, “Throughout 2012 we maintained our strong cash flow and balance sheet. We absorbed the costs of the restructuring without drawing on our revolver, and we ended the year with our highest amount of cash since 2009. And in the fourth quarter, we took critical steps to improve the quality of our earnings through diversification across product lines and importantly, refining our cost structure to support and grow margin from multiple service lines. This fundamental improvement in our value proposition – and in the quality of our earnings – can be seen in the expansion of our adjusted EBITDA margin which increased almost 200 basis points between Q3 and Q4, bucking the historic trends of margin contraction between Q3 and Q4.”

Sales Reporting Presentation:

The company announced that beginning with its annual filing on Form 10-K, ARC Document Solutions’ statement of operations will reflect net sales reporting under two categories – “Service sales” and “Equipment and supplies sales” – replacing the historical revenue categories of “Reprographics services,” “Facilities management,” and “Equipment and supplies sales.” The broader categories of “Service sales” and “Equipment and supplies sales” will allow the company to better assign and report distinct sales recognized from its traditional reprographics services, onsite services, color printing services, digital services, and equipment and supplies sales. Under its previous revenue reporting structure, traditional reprographics, color, and digital services were blended in “Reprographics services.”

Restructuring Charge

ARC Document Solutions management recorded a restructuring charge of $3.3 million as a result of reducing its service center footprint and headcount during October and November of 2012. The charges pertain primarily to property lease exit costs and severance payments related to headcount reductions.

Outlook:

ARC anticipates annual adjusted earnings per share in 2013 to be in the range of $0.03 to $0.07 on a fully-diluted basis, and annual cash flow from operations to be in the range of $38 million to $45 million.

Teleconference and Webcast:

ARC will host a conference call and audio webcast today at 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time (5:00 P.M. Eastern Time) to discuss results for the Company’s fourth quarter and full year 2012. The conference call can be accessed by dialing (855) 812-4355. The conference ID number is 94854869.

A live Webcast will also be made available on the investor relations page of ARC’s website at www.e-arc.com.

A replay will be available approximately one hour after the call for seven days following the call’s conclusion. To access the replay, dial (855) 859-2056. The conference ID number to access the replay is 94854869. A Web archive will be made available at http://www.e-arc.com for approximately 90 days following the call’s conclusion.

About ARC Document Solutions (NYSE: ARC)

ARC Document Solutions provides specialized document solutions to businesses of all types, with an emphasis on the non-residential segment of the architecture, engineering and construction (“AEC”) industry. The company’s products and services enhance our customers’ document workflow, reduce costs, shorten document processing and distribution time, improve the quality of document management tasks, and provide a secure, controlled environment in which to manage, distribute and produce documents. The company’s service centers are digitally connected and allow the provision of services to tens of thousands of customers all over the world. ARC is headquartered in California with more than 150 service centers located in major metropolitan markets in the US, Canada, China, and in select locations in the U.K., Hong Kong, Australia and India. For more information, visit www.e-arc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on current opinions, estimates and assumptions of management regarding future events and the future financial performance of the Company. Words such as “allow us to deliver,” “anticipated,” “trends,” “opportunities,” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements and all statements other than statements of historical fact, including, but not limited to, any projections regarding earnings, revenues and financial performance of the Company, could be deemed forward-looking statements. We caution you that such statements are only predictions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, current economic conditions and downturn in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries specifically, and the timing and nature of any economic recovery; our inability to mitigate revenue exposure to the cyclical nature of the AEC industries; our inability to streamline operations and reduce and/or manage costs; our failure to develop and introduce new services successfully, including expansion of client service capabilities in our core AEC market; competition in our industry and innovation by our competitors; our failure to anticipate and adapt to future changes in our industry; our failure to take advantage of market opportunities and/or to complete acquisitions; our dependence on certain key vendors for equipment, maintenance services and supplies; and damage or disruption to our facilities, our technology centers, our vendors or a majority of our customers. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative but is by no means exhaustive. For more information on factors that may affect our future performance, please review our periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and specifically the risk factors set forth in our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.

Contact Information:

David Stickney

VP Corporate Communications

925-949-511

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Consolidated Balance Sheets

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Consolidated Statements of Operations

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Non-GAAP Measures

Reconciliation of cash flows provided by operating activities to EBIT, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

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Non-GAAP Measures

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Non-GAAP Measures

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Net Sales by Product Line

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures.

EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios presented in this report are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). These measures are not measurements of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income, income from operations, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to cash flows from operating, investing or financing activities as a measure of our liquidity.

EBIT represents net income before interest and taxes. EBITDA represents net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBIT margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBIT by net sales. EBITDA margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBITDA by net sales.

We present EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios because we consider them important supplemental measures of our performance and liquidity. We believe investors may also find these measures meaningful, given how our management makes use of them. The following is a discussion of our use of these measures.

We use EBIT and EBITDA to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. Our operating segments’ financial performance includes all of the operating activities except debt and taxation which are managed at the corporate level for U.S. operating segments. As a result, we believe EBIT is the best measure of operating segment profitability and the most useful metric by which to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. We also use EBIT to measure performance for determining operating segment-level compensation and we use EBITDA to measure performance for determining consolidated-level compensation. In addition, we use EBIT and EBITDA to evaluate potential acquisitions and potential capital expenditures.

EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios have limitations as analytical tools, and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are as follows:

Because of these limitations, EBIT, EBITDA, and related ratios should not be considered as measures of discretionary cash available to us to invest in business growth or to reduce our indebtedness. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios only as supplements.

Our presentation of adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA over certain periods is an attempt to provide meaningful comparisons to our historical performance for our existing and future investors. The unprecedented changes in our end markets over the past several years have required us to take measures that are unique in our history and specific to individual circumstances. Comparisons inclusive of these actions make normal financial and other performance patterns difficult to discern under a strict GAAP presentation. Each non-GAAP presentation, however, is explained in detail in the reconciliation tables above. For more information, see our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Specifically, we have presented adjusted net loss attributable to ARC and adjusted loss per share attributable to ARC shareholders for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 to reflect the exclusion of goodwill impairment charges, the amortization impact related specifically to the change in useful lives of trade names, restructuring expense, interest rate swap related costs, the valuation allowance related to certain deferred tax assets and other discrete tax items. This presentation facilitates a meaningful comparison of our operating results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. We believe these charges were the result of our capital restructuring, or other items which are not indicative of our actual operating performance.

We presented adjusted EBITDA in the three months ended December 31, 2012 to exclude restructuring expense of $3.3 million, and stock-based compensation expense of $0.5 million. We presented adjusted EBITDA in the twelve months ended December 31, 2012 to exclude the non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $16.7 million, restructuring expense of $3.3 million, and stock-based compensation expense of $2.0 million. We presented adjusted EBITDA for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 to exclude stock-based compensation expense of $0.5 million and $4.3 million, respectively, and a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $65.4 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011. The adjustments to EBITDA for non-cash items are consistent with the definition of adjusted EBITDA in our credit agreement; therefore, we believe this information is useful to investors in assessing our financial performance.

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