Commercial printers vs. at-home printer?

KaramaI designed a brochure for a company and when printed, the folds aren’t right, although I have a grid & layout in my document specifically to avoid that problem. I’m wondering if your typical at-home printer just prints differently than a commercial printer? I used .25 margins…Do some at-home printers just not configure that? Will having a professional printer do the work change? Just wondering so that I can avoid going through the hassle of resizing and adjustments ... Read More


4 Color Printing: the Practical Choice Versus Other Color Printing

Carla San Gaspar When you get right down to it, 4 color printing is the most popularly and most widely used color printing process used by commercial printers whether online or not. But its popularity, you might say, is not sufficient whether or not its quality is truly of a high standard. Well, there must be something that rings true with the statistics. 4 Color Printing is an undeniable force that is driving printing companies and your own printing needs as well, be it simple business cards,... Read More


Building a Working Relationship With Your Printer

Kaye Z. MarksThe world of business can be broken down into relationships. Ultimately, it comes down to the relationship between a customer and the business providing a product or service. Within each business, are even more relationships. - The relationship between the owner or CEO or president and his or her workers - The relationship between the company and its suppliers - The relationship between the company and its commercial printer Of all of these relationships, the one between the cus... Read More


Chain Printer vs Commercial Printer & why to use each

Printing GuyPrinting like many industries has seen the onset of chain businesses to meet the needs of the consumer and businesses. As technology has gotten better it has lowered the barrier of entry in skills that a printer must possess to produce a larger % of print jobs. Printing was a skill learned and it took years to train to be able to produce fine work. This is certainly still the case for most jobs but printing has segmented into different markets that are filled by different companies.... Read More


Top Five Reasons to Use a Commercial Printer

Jacques Habra  You’ve got a business, you’ve got a project, you’ve got a copier, and you’re ready to start doing all your printing yourself. Seems simple, right? Not necessarily. While internal presentations, projects, or small print runs may seem too small or insignificant to outsource to a commercial printer, there can be some great advantages to taking your project to a commercial printer. The combination of their experience and expertise can give you an important ... Read More


Xerox Develops New Resource for Commercial Printers

BusinessWire Xerox Develops New Resource for Commercial Printers to Quickly Build a Successful Digital Business: Gavin Jordan-Smith, vice president of commercial print and prepress, Xerox Production Systems Group, discusses the challenges facing commercial printers and the opportunities afforded by digital printing technology. Today Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) announced its Digital Print Shop in a Box, an interactive CD and Web-based collection designed to help commercial printers start and ... Read More


4 Color Printing and Printing Tips for Businesses

Carla San GasparThere are plenty of means by which businesses, whether it is a small private endeavor or a corporate one, find the right means, solutions and answers for their needs. With the ever growing competition and today’s trends, it isn’t surprising how popular 4 color printing had become. All the more, it isn’t surprising why businesses or corporations have made more and more printing companies a business partner. Printing companies offer a lot of services that would prove useful ... Read More


Commercial Printing: All your Printing Needs are Right Here

Carla San GasparCommercial printing provides the solution for every imaginable print need. Small runs and long runs to high quality offset printing and digital printing - they all can be best served by a commercial printing company that encompasses a wide variety of printing choices for a diverse market. Commercial printing companies serve up prints run through includes digital printing, color printing, short run printing, large format printing, inkjet printing and more. Commercial printing u... Read More


What do commercial printers mean when they refer to color as 4/4 or 4/0 and so on?

TeresaCommercial printing companies, not desktop printers. ... Read More


How to reinstall an IPDS Simm to correct a 44 IPDS Option Error for commercial use printers?

Erik SI work for a Steel Company based out of Portland Oregon as an I.T. and am having some trouble fixing a certain finicky printer. It’s a 1998 IMB Network 24 printer. On the display screen it says “44 IPDS Option Error” I checked into it and what I found out was that the IPDS Simm needs to be reinstalled, I was wondering if any of you out there can help me out with some information on this subject. -erik s. ... Read More