Looking For A Printing Company

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christopherpark

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Hi everybody

I do have my business for over a two years. I just got very disappointed with a printing company I worked with long time. I am looking for something new, flexible and of course good quality. I have my own graphic designer so I am looking for a good printing company (Banners, posters, Signs, Flags etc.). USA
Any suggestions? ASAP
 


I have someone who does full color work and does a very good job of it - I might add. Just make sure you spell check your work. Banners Printing Company
 
Find someone local, go see their place, look at jobs they have done that are similar to your type of work. Run one job through them and see if the quality is up to your standards. It's handy to work with a local shop if you have any in your town. It will be easier to get rush jobs and personal attention when you can go face to face.

Also, if your designer is local s/he may know of shops.
 
Resell Printing for all stationary / traditional paper printing ... they're dirt cheap (ex. $59 / 5000 4/4 business cards). I've been using them for years.

For vinyl, signs, embroidery, etc. I'd pick up the phone and use someone local. Bad things happen on those type of orders, nice to have someone you can drive to and rip them a new asshole.
 
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Site visit. Check their prepress area to make sure they have modern equipment.

CTP, PDF workflow.

If the stuff looks old, don't touch 'em. Lots of printers still use RIPs from like 1995 and then complain that your job doesn't process properly.
 
Benji49 said:
Site visit. Check their prepress area to make sure they have modern equipment.

CTP, PDF workflow.

If the stuff looks old, don't touch 'em. Lots of printers still use RIPs from like 1995 and then complain that your job doesn't process properly.
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I'm sorry, but that is just ignorant. If you run into a case like that you clearly don't have a quality shop. A good shop will give you exact guidelines for how to submit work and will be able to explain exactly why your results are what they are. Not that things are not better than they were 10 years ago, but there is no reason to expect to get low quality from a 90's rip. Our university prints very high quality jobs (coffee table photo collections) and they still assemble generated film by hand.

What is important is what they produce, regardless of the equipment. The technicians and management are more important than the imagesetter, rip, scanner, etc. If it's a small locally owned shop the owner should be anal about details and procedures. We had a local company, before dtp who made all teh techs use straight blade tape dispensers for better draw-down, that's the kind of shop that will produce quality results. Also, do they profile their monitors (do they even know what an icc profile is), do they profile their imagesetter and press, do the pre-press ops know what they are doing, can they make quality seps?

Many artists don't understand printing very well. Many of them can't or don't take into consideration the print process or the capabilities/limitations of print. If you have a good artist and a good technician you can get high quality results, if you don't it's a crap shoot.

Then again, do you care, are you doing coffee table books or business cards.
 
DewChugr said:
Find someone local, go see their place, look at jobs they have done that are similar to your type of work. Run one job through them and see if the quality is up to your standards. It's handy to work with a local shop if you have any in your town. It will be easier to get rush jobs and personal attention when you can go face to face.

Also, if your designer is local s/he may know of shops.
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What he said and then said again. Local with modern workflow, you can't go wrong. Knowing your printer by name, echanging xmas baskets, and knowing that the job is always going to go right and getting top treatment is so worth it. Being able to walk in or have a press proof couriered over on short notice, or having the pressman work a Sunday for you, priceless.

I have a fantastic printer in Vancouver that I can recommend.

Since my last corporate job I've worked with a printer in the UK that I now send all my print work to for clients all over Europe. Just had business cards done in hot foil stamping sent to 4 regional offices in Denmark, Spain, Greece and Blugaria. Client was very happy.
 
our company is a quality in printing,we will give you something new..PM us for more details..
 
Well, and I got printing company with unbeatable value: International quality of printing yet Asian prices. Yes its in Bangkok, and it does about 60% foreign orders.
 
Printing company?

Have you tried Printplace.com? I used them once. They did an okay job for cheap!....VP
 
jelf said:
uprinting.com
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For business cards, maybe. I've had 1k of them sent to me from this company, quality is decent, turn around and shipping took forever. They also did a gallery wrapped canvas print for me and when it arrived, it looked like someone spilled liquid on it after it was printed, quality was terrible. Shipping was great, double boxed, it was not damaged during shipping that's for sure. I had to send them photos of what it looked like and they agreed to redo it for me. 3 weeks later the replacement came, it too wasn't all that great, somewhat acceptable, but not amazing.

Clearly their wide format print couldn't handle the job I gave them and they have zero quality control. As a photographer, I wouldn't use them again. As an offset printer, they do an OK job but there are better / faster companies out there.
 
Print100.com is a cheap asian printer that does good full colour work - shipping is free via fedex.
 
GotPrint.net -> good quality and fast turnaround.

Get into the brokers program (required to buy one item/month, or you will loos the account after 4 month) and save extra...
 
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