Commercial Printing For Your Company

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Companies nowadays needs commercial printing every once in a while for their office needs and advertisements, you may be even tasked to do the prints which is why you are reading this. Do not worry, once you have found the perfect and most suitable commercial printer for you, most of your problems will dissipate.

1) Search for your printer that can cater to your needs and ideas and give you the most reasonable price and the highest quality prints. Try to find one that can also give you good customer service so you will have a good working relationship with them and can get back to them anytime you need prints.

2) Relaying your print needs to your printer

The most concrete your ideas are and the clearer you share it to your printers the better for your print results. While your design is important, the initial draft of your thoughts and ideas will be the deciding factor for your price quote or packages. Be clear so you get the exact price and so you can compare it with the same packages from other competing printers.

3) Start your Designing

If you have no idea on what to do you can either ...
... ask the services of your printer to help you design or seek the outside services of a professional designer. This will of course add to the expenses to your printing even if you tap the services from the services of your printer. If money is an issue, do it on your own and learn. The best way to still be able to ask the printers to assist you without spending too much is to do the initial designing and let the printers polish it for you, make sure to use the same design program they are using so file exchange and editing will not be an issue.

4) File submission depending on your printer’s requirements

There are certain printers that require certain file types like eps or tiff. Some printers may not allow certain file types because they do not have certain programs so make sure you understand your printer’s requirements otherwise expect your files to be returned to you and bounce back and forth between you and your printer.

5) dummy or proof will be sent to you electronically to show you what to expect from your design for finalization. You can either request to edit it if you see something wrong with it or give them the go signal for printing. This step is important that you check everything from words, pictures to colors.

6) pick out printing materials based on printer’s available options

Some printers put this step on the initial stages so they can include this on your price quotation which can either bring the price down or bring it up because you picked out a particular grade of paper.

7) prints are processing so depending on your required date, turnaround time will vary greatly.

8) hand in your final payment

9) Prints are in your hands now, either distribute them, post them, share them or use them.

Giving your commercial printer a chance to share their thoughts on your project is important especially for those printers who specialize on that specific commercial printing job. Listen to them and take into consideration what they said but you do not have to necessarily follow their ideas because it is still up to you.

For more information, you can visit this page on commercial printing