Thursday, November 27, 2008

Is it possible to find the best business printing company? Yes!

By Frank Nathe

There are ways to find the perfect company to meet your business's printing requirements when other companies can't. With these tips, you'll be able to find the business-printing company that truly is the best.

With so many digital-printing companies vying for your business-printing needs - and each company touting itself as "the best" and "state-of-the art" - is it possible to find the business-printing provider that really is the best? The company that is truly the next generation of business printing?

Yes. It's actually quite possible to find the perfect company to meet your business's requirements when other companies can't - whether it be offset or digital printing, posters, convention printing, trade show printing, poster printing, banner printing, high-volume copying, design, binding, or whatever your specific needs are.

The first step is to find a company that's been around for a while. With the Internet, starting a business is as easy as registering a domain name. Because of that, it's hard to tell which companies are here to stay, and which are flashes in the pan. By choosing a company that was in the printing business back when reputation - not a clever website - was what earned it customers, you'll weed out the here-today-gone-tomorrow businesses.

Then, find a company that can offer a variety of options for its printing and communication, so you can make sure they have the technology to fit your job, instead of making your job fit into their technology. Look for a printer that offers offset and digital printing - and because today's digital communication takes on more forms than just printing, make sure you select a company with experience and expertise in all of the digital-communication areas.

Another important factor in looking for a company for your business's printing and communication needs is making sure they put their customers first, and the job is done your way. That means making sure the company you choose offers more than one level of service, so there's something for everyone. There are customers who are more comfortable using automated sales options, with instant price quotes and online file uploading, so transactions can be done with a few clicks of the computer mouse. But there are also other customers, who need personalized full-service and custom quoting. These customers usually like dealing with another person, and prefer being helped through the printing-order process.

And because being a full-service communication provider isn't just about printing anymore, choose a company on the cutting edge of technology that continues to grow and offers additional services like variable data printing (personalized printing), video production, OCR scanning and archiving of documents for fine arts, DVD replication or wide format poster printing and banner printing and more.

Of course, it's important and responsible to opt for a printing and communications company that's "green." The paper industry is the largest user of water and the fourth largest user of electricity in the world, according to the Institute of Sustainable Communications. So go with a company that takes steps that can benefit the planet and energy consumption - like using environmentally responsible eco-friendly inks, recycled papers and electronic document delivery whenever possible.

NextGeneration Printing, Copying & Digital Communication, the leading fast-turnaround offset and digital print provider, is one of these companies. When it selected the name NextGeneration, it knew the company would always have to be on the cutting edge of the printing and communication industries. NextGeneration has been chosen to produce critical and time-sensitive printed materials by companies in England, Germany, France, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Russia, Ireland, Barbados, not to mention almost all U.S. states, and many more. - 15634

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