Re: Printing bids - surprise!

[Hannah Draper <hanahd -at- WWISP -dot- COM>]

I suppose it depends on the individual Kinko's.  I have used Kinko's to
print all of our user documentation (and newsletters) for the past 2 1/2
years.  They are indeed cheaper than any of our other alternatives, and so
far I have been extremely pleased with their service.

That is not to say they have *never* messed up, but overall the quality and
timeliness of their service has been excellent.  Give them a try.  Talk to
your sales rep and keep negotiating prices.  We gave them enough business
over a period of several months, that when I approached my sales rep again
to request a discount based on the high volume, she came back with a bigger
discount than I ever expected.  It was well worth a bit of negotiating!

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> From: Kippi Fagerlund <kippi -at- ECO -dot- TWG -dot- COM>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Printing bids - surprise!
> Date: Thursday, July 03, 1997 8:39 AM
>
> At 12:36 PM 7/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >
> >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?
> >
>
> I regularly use the local Kinko's for printing a bi-monthly newsletter
> for a non-profit I do volunteer work for; they frequently mess up the
> job somehow at first when they run it. Then they give us a discount
> that has ranged from 15-30% to make it up to us. We now factor more
> time into the schedule, and the extra savings is nice. But rely on
> them for something that's time critical? I don't think so . . . .
>
> Kippi
> --
>
> Kippi Fagerlund
> kippi -at- eco -dot- twg -dot- com
> Attachmate Corporation Open Systems Group
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