When you have a business, you need to print many documents, business cards, brochures, and more. Sometimes, you need a ton load of papers for the meeting, documenting information, sending letters, and many more—it’s true that you cannot do all this printing work using your office printer. Hence, you need a company specialising in document printing, brochure/business card designing, and similar items.
But, how do you find a company that is best at these tasks? How do you shortlist the best printing companies in your area?
This article will list the essential tips to recognise the best printing company in your locality and how to shortlist them. There will be features and qualities listed below by which you can prioritise the companies and decide which one fulfils your requirements.
The following are the tips to select the best printing company:
Visit their office
The best way to understand their business is to visit their office. There, you can meet the staff, the managing heads, the CEO, etc. If you are lucky, you could meet their other client(s) there and have a chat about the company’s service and commitment. Doing this will help you get a clear picture of the working conditions, management, and quality of their work.
Check the quality of their work.
You can also ask them to show you their workspace when you visit their premises. You can check the work in progress and finished products in the factory itself. You can also observe their printing machines and the quality of print—one day, these machines will be printing your brochures too.
This is the most efficient and foolproof method to confirm the quality of products and services. If the printing company is a specialist in their work, they will offer you a tour of their factory, and you can judge their work yourself.
Investigate the level of customer service
When you need multiple services from the printing company, you would have to communicate with each other frequently—here is where you need the customer service the most. When you send a business email, you need a reply immediately, or at most in a business day, and when you call their office, there must be someone to answer. If their customer service is not good enough, your orders may stall, and you may not get those printed products on time.
To avoid all these issues, always choose the company that offers better customer service, and to check this, you can talk to their other clients and your business counterparts.
Check the reputation of the company.
You can check the reputation, service quality, and commitment of a business online at any given time. You can go to Google reviews or the official consumer forum. There will be several reviews if they have been around some time, and you can weigh the good, bad, and neutral reviews to understand the situation.
Next, just visit their website to check the testimonials of their loyal customers and how they benefitted from their printing services.
Investigate their ‘green credentials’
If you think document printing doesn’t involve wastage or chemicals, you are wrong. Every factory/plant releases some chemical and other waste to the environment, and if they are not disposed of properly, it could harm the whole area. You can check the company’s green credentials through their website, the government’s website that lists the companies following eco-friendly manufacturing practices, and whether they are using printers with ISO 14001 accreditation. You can also ask them whether they use recycled paper or not.
If you follow these tips, you will get the best printing company in your locality.
