Outsourced Printing: What You Need to Know
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26th, 2011 by adminOnline Printers
Online printers offer a wide variety of services so that you can have all your printing needs taken care of without leaving your desk. Whether you’re ordering business cards or banners, you can upload your design, order online, and wait for your order to be printed and delivered.
Offset Printing
Offset printing gives high-definition prints in large quantities in a very short amount of time. Offset printing can give you the rich colors that you want for your business products.
Full Color Printing
Full color printing, which is also called four color printing, gives your business products vibrant colors using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink. These colors are layered to give the exact hue and depth that you wanted. Although there are only four ink colors, your color choices are endless.
High Resolution Images
When you upload an image for the outsourced printing service to use, it needs to be at least 300 dpi for images and 400 dpi for text to make sure that you will receive a crisp print. Anything with a lower dpi than that could come out as a pixilated or blurry image.
Coats
Coats are films that are layered on your prints. Not only do these coats protect your prints from fading or being scratched, but they add a gloss or texture that will give your products an extra touch.
Turnaround Time
Turnaround time is how long it takes an outsourced printing service to finish your product. Printing services have the equipment to put out high volume orders very rapidly. Turnaround time does not include shipping and not all printing services work weekends, so make sure you have enough time to receive your products.
Mailing Service
Some printing services also provide a mailing service, which means that they will deliver your prints anywhere that you want. You can use this to split up an order of catalogs or to send out the postcards you bought for advertising.
Now that you understand some of the basic printing terms, you can save big with an outsourced printing service.