Best Practices for the Best Office Prints
In reading trade publications I recently came across some toner articles that shared some insight in best practices and provided a brief history of printing in the office. Aside from shedding light on the green movement the toner articles also showed of how professional grade printing could now be accomplished from an in-house printer rather having to outsource everything to a professional printer.
With the advent of wide format printers, urban professionals can now created collateral that is no longer merely the standard sizing. This new breed of printers can not only print custom sizes, but can cut paper or fabric in the exact shape required. In addition, say goodbye to the white border on sheets of paper because of new printers that offer the print to bleed option. This means that the printer can print straight onto the edge of the paper. If you require the entire sheet of paper to be covered in an image, you can now do this in-house.
While many of these bells and whistles seem nice, newer printers have also increased in speed. Long gone are the days of having to wait around for a report to finish in time for your big meeting. With lightening speed, even color copies can shoot into the tray before you can walk from your desk to the printer. The portrait of the modern day office is quite different even from the environment from twenty years ago. In that era, any sort of professional printing was down outside of the office and took a great deal of time. The quality was marginal at best, and real photos were almost never used.
All of this leaves me the question, What are you doing right now? Stop reading this and get back to work. There are no more excuse for you not to have exemplary output for all of your hard work!