5 Rules in Dealing with a Printing Company
To be professional, purposeful and effective when dealing with a printing company, I have been following 5 professional rules many businessmen adopt. In this guide, I will teach you about these rules so that you too can also deal with your own printing company, professionally, purposefully and of course efficiently. So whether you are hiring an online printing company or that printing company across the road, here are the 5 rules that you should follow to deal with them properly.
1. Be the customer not the novice – Some people approach a printing company like they are novices. Most printers can see this in the way the clients talk or their choices in printing. Often times, a novice client will act like they know things, but fail in saying the right stuff. When this happens some printers can take advantage of the situation and sell more unnecessary printing options to the novice client.
The proper way to deal with the printer in this situation is to become a real customer and not a novice in printing. Always ask about your printing options, the prices and the process by which the printing happens. Ask about quality materials, the risks of certain process and the time frame and schedules in printing. Also do not forget to ask “is there anything else I need to know?” By being the questioning and learning customer you can really get to the root of the information that you need to deal with the printing company.
2. Learn and understand the terms and concepts – It is also a good rule to always try to learn and understand the terms and concepts involved in printing. By having some rudimentary knowledge about the printing process, and some basic idea of the tools and the materials involved in it, you should be able to more easily deal with the printing company. You can try some information searching in the Internet to do this. It is easy, and it will give you a great leg up in deciding your options in printing.
3. Communicate clearly what you want – Also, do not be afraid to communicate clearly what you want. Many prospective printing clients do not really give everything a printer has to know of a printing order. When this happens, printers sometimes assume a few things that a client might not necessarily want, in their printing. That is why it is crucial to communicate really what you want in full detail. In this way, there will be no mistakes in your printing order.
4. Always try to match their technical requirements – It is also important that you always try to match the technical requirements for printing specified by the printer. It is important that you do this yourself so that you can really determine specifically the look and configuration that you want. If you do not match those technical requirements, the printer might be forces to adjust your designs to match their printing process. This leads to some discrepancies in printing that is really not a good idea for you.
5. Always make your designs as error free as possible – Lastly, in dealing with a printing company, particularly an online printing company, you should always make your designs as error free as possible. Always check and proofread your text and its layout design three or more times. Leave no stone unturned and no text unedited. This helps you save time and money in reprinting if ever mistakes to get passed for actual mass production. So check as extensively as you can when you print your materials.
So remember these rules as you deal with the printing company. Make sure that you follow them as closely as you can. You should be more comfortable and more practical in dealing with your printing company this way.
This article aims to provide the reader comprehensive ideas about printing company.
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