How fast are your online printing services?
For current estimated delivery times, enter your job details on the appropriate order form, then enter your ZIP code at the bottom. Print services which have no finishing generally ship within 2-4 business days. By finishing, we mean anything we do to the paper after printing and before it goes into the box. Jobs which do not have finishing include flat (unfolded) color copies, flyers, posters, and stapled booklets, which are saddle-stitched by a finishing unit as they come off the press (rather than bound by hand like our other book binding options).
Jobs with finishing typically ship in 3-5 business days. This includes our book printing services, any flat sheets with bleeds (where printing goes to the edge), folded brochures, notepads, NCR forms, mailing, and jobs with perforation or other finishing.
What online printing services do you offer?
We specialize in color copies and color printing, book binding, saddle stitch booklets, flyers, large format posters and vinyl banners, brochures and more. Use the navigation menu to see all of our printing services.
What is digital printing?
Digital printing is a process where images are transferred from digital files (typically a PDF) onto a variety of substrates. Unlike offset printing, which uses ink, digital printing typically uses toner. This colored, waxy substance is melted onto the paper and fused to the surface with a heat process. This eliminates the need for printing plates, costly setups, and the overall mess involved with ink presses. And unlike the cheap photocopies you might expect from the technology of decades past, modern digital printing produces vivid colors and exceptional detail. In most cases, our print quality is close to what you'd get from offset printing.
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I’ve been selling my art prints at art shows, conventions, and gift shops for more than a decade; this is my personal list of tried-and-true printing services!
Personal Home Setup:
Whenever I need to produce “fine art / giclée” prints for handmade shows, I use my personal Epson EcoTank ET-8550 with Finestra Fine Art Paper. This printer works best if you prep your files in RGB color mode at 300 DPI!
For cheaper prints that can be sold at an anime/comic convention, here are my recommendations:
Prints & Posters (up to 13x19):
FireballPrinting.com has been my main printer for conventions / artist alleys for more than 10 years! Based in Philadelphia, the company is run by a group of passionate artists and consistently produces some of the best prints I’ve ever seen. I always prep my files in CMYK mode and order my prints on their 100 lb uncoated paper, which is silky smooth with a nice thickness!
Postcards / Business Cards:
GotPrint.com is my number one choice for printing free advertising collateral like business cards and postcards, for their unbeatable quality and fair prices. They’ve beaten out VistaPrint and OvernightPrints for their superior quality, and they also offer luxe finishes like rounded corners and raised foil printing. I’ve made orders as large as 5000x postcards, and everything turned out perfectly!
Gallery-wrap Canvas Prints:
ProPrints.com makes the best gallery-wrap canvas prints for fine artists and photographers, full stop. They use archival materials and latex inks, and their gorgeous canvases are 1.25” deep and ready-to-hang. Prepare your files in RGB mode at 300 DPI (they will handle the rest) and prepare to be wowed by the results!
Print-on-Demand / Drop-shipping:
InPrnt.com offers superior quality control for their art prints, cards, and canvases - plus they give their artists a generous 50% cut of the profits. Although they’ve been late with my payout on a few occasions, they ultimately came through when I reached out, so I will continue using them!
… do you know of an awesome printer to add to this list? :)