subject: Personal Versus Commercial Printers [print this page] I know. Every time you hear the word commercial printing, money, a large amount at that, almost always comes to mind. It is not actually the printed collaterals such as business cards, print flyers, quality brochures or even the wonderful booklets and newsletters. Always, what comes to mind especially to small business owners and to those who are only starting, commercial printing entails a lot of money.
Of course, it is true. Marketing costs a lot. Hence, the need to really make room for it in your overall budget. Especially if you are aiming for custom printing so that your marketing campaign would stand out. It is not surprising then that many of the startup businesses and small enterprises tend to go for personal desktop printers instead of getting a professional commercial printer to do their marketing collaterals. They would surely want to work within their budget, which, by the way, is further limited with the economy we have today.
Then again, that is every business owner and marketer prerogative. And who can blame you? It does take a lot to print commercially. So why not invest on a good desktop printer and do your designing and then printing yourself? It does not take a genius anyway to design and print your own marketing collaterals. And you do not need a big amount of collaterals. You just need a few to jumpstart your marketing efforts.
But come to think of it, commercial printing services, even those with custom printing, are really not that expensive as you think they are. If you just do your homework and look for them, you will always get professional printers to provide you with exactly what you need at the price that is according to your budget. No matter how big or how small your marketing project, there will always be a commercial printer who can provide you with what you need based on the financial resources you have.
It all depends on the right printing company.
The right printing company is the whole business itself, with the equipment, digital technology, skilled works, and the business owners who know how to operate such business. Hence, with a professional and experienced commercial printer, you can always have options on how you can get the marketing collaterals you need within your means. You do not need to rob a bank just so you can have good quality posters and flyers for example. And you do not need to scrimp on desktop printers either. All you need is to find the right printing company to do the job for you.
The thing about commercial printing is that it produces the best quality materials that can get you to accomplish the goals you have set for your marketing campaign. No desktop printer can print the kind of quality that a commercial printing press does. The equipment used generally applies four color process printing which can give you those brilliant images that is accurate to the original. And at big numbers to boot. You can have the exact same image in 500 to 50,000 catalogs for example.
Commercial printers can help you in other ways too. They can provide you with additional printing services such as binding your booklets and brochures, as well as offer you direct mail and mailing list options. All these things you cannot do with your desktop printer. So you still have to go out and get other people to do it for you, which, if I may point out, you have to go to a commercial printer for these services. So why get the hassle in the first place when you have someone do it for you from the very first step?
The point here is this: sure commercial printers can be expensive at times. But there are ways and means to save on costs and work within the budget you have. And I will say it again; you have to find the right printer to do your printing for you. The right printer can help you get your marketing collaterals at the cost that is definitely within your budget.
