How to Speed up your next Printing Project?

All corporates and businesses regularly need a large quantity of stationery and packaging products. The truth is that everyone wants their print projects completed as quickly as humanly possible. Receiving quality prints fast is within your control when you are working with the right printing company. So how can you speed up your next printing project? Here are five ways to help you procure your printed material back quicker.

1. Proper Research

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Planning your printing job ahead means discovering the types and sizes of paper, having your digital design created and ready to go, and having an idea of the colors you want. Planning ahead can help you immensely in preventing issues that need to be addressed during your printing job. Being aware that specialty or unique printing jobs involve several additional steps aside from just printing, such as scoring, folding, perforations, die cutting, embossing, and UV coating, can all add extra hours or days to your print job. Knowing about these realities ahead of time will ensure your project is completed within your time frame.

2. Consider Digital Printing

Digital printing is by far and large the fastest way to print and is usually ideal for printing a minute number of items. When deciding on how you want your products printed, choosing digital printing will drastically speed up the entire print job.

3. Send Print-ready Files

Ensuring that you send print-ready files to your commercial printer starts your project off on the right foot. Alternatively, sending the wrong type of documents can slow down your printing project to a halt. By “print ready,” we mean that you are sending your document in a PDF/Ai document with an outlined font, high-quality images, and correct trim/bleed areas. Not sure what trim or bleed is? Click here to know in detail. Ordinarily, commercial printers spend a large amount of time fixing incorrectly formatted documents, and this will inevitably slow down your print job completion time. Ask your printer partner about print specifications anytime you are unsure if what you are sending is correct.

4. Specify Your Pantone Colors

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In order to speed up your print job while ensuring the colors of your design matches the printed version, ensure to specify your Pantone colors. This can be done by sending your printer the Pantone codes along with your design. Again, if you are in doubt, contact us and ask how you can find Pantone codes that match your colors exactly. Without these codes, your printer can usually find a stock color substitution, but this may lengthen the printing process.

5. Proof Your Work

It’s possible to have a million things go wrong if you are hurrying and if you don’t have any experience in printing. You might also be confused about choosing between a couple of designs or paper types. Printing sample pieces will help you a lot in coming to a decision. Samples will also help you check the durability and how the design looks on paper, which will be different from what you see on screen. So less room for unfortunate surprises.

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