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I've had Kinko's save my skin a few times. I use them for bound
copies to ship for Beta test, for customized documentation (for us,
quantities from 50 to 200) especially with gray-scale images, and for
last-minute saves. They have printed laminated quick reference
cards, and several sizes of saddle-stitched manuals (very
cost-effective) for us. I'll keep the wire-O option in mind (thanks).
I'm not sure the nearby location does 4-color work.
Kinko's gives me 48-hour turn-around, calls with questions, tells me
when I'm dreaming and suggests alternatives, and carries the boxes to
my car.
We use a full-service printer for the documentation we keep in
inventory and ship with regular (non-customized) products (I'm happy
with them, too), but Kinko's helps us out in a pinch.
Regards,
Virginia
DataCard Corporation
Just my thoughts, not my employers'.
We went out for print bids on behalf of a client. The specs were 100
copies, 7 x 9 pages, double-sided, b&w. Four-color cover (art coming
from client), spiral bound with cover bound into it (we took a
folded-paper demonstration to show what we wanted). We looked for
printers in the Silicon Valley area.
We got bids from six different printers, with prices ranging from
approximately $6 to $17 per book. Granted, 100 copies isn't exactly
cost-effective, but this is what the client wanted.
Kinko's came in cheapest! Surprise, surprise! We could have expected
some reasonably close bids on the Docutech-type insides, but to have the
whole project come in lowest was a real eye-opener. Has anyone else
had an experience like this lately? Is Kinko's really getting into the
printing business?
Elna Tymes
Los Trancos Systems
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