Inhouse or Outsource

These days trying to keep ahead of the competition is tough for small businesses within the printing industry, but when you can offer your customers a whole host of services you can be sure to compete better for business and be one step ahead of the game…

Your business should avail of every angle you can to successfully compete against larger, well established companies. By offering customers more unique services you can increase efficiency and business margins.  

Think about it…Your business is well established with highly skilled staff, by outsourcing print finishing you are losing out on business. You already have the specialized skills to adapt to customer needs so why not get a bit of extra bank for your buck? 

In-House Printing – The Advantages…

There are a variety of reasons as to why business should keep print finishing in-house.

Keeping print finishing In-house gives you the ability to manage and control timelines for your customers. Time is a very important factor when it comes to printing. Customers’ demands are ever changing and in particular if they are running an important programme they will have deadlines that all lie on the print and fulfilment being completed on time. So for this reason there is more control to prioritize time sensitive jobs.

Another reason business tend to keep print In-house is the need for security. Many printers deal with sensitive data for clients, it is easier to maintain responsibility for such documents if you keep them in-house.

• Recent studies have shown that when a print job is outsourced to a third party, the customer typically prints up to 20% more copies than necessary for over prints in order to get a better price or alternatively get higher quantities so they do not run out of stock. Printing in-house generally results in a more accurate count of print. 
• In-house printing gives you more control over outsourcing for time deadlines. 
• Depending on where you are in the country, keeping print in-house reduces the cost of courier charges. 

Some other advantages include accelerated time to market, fewer errors, improved accuracy and quality.

When considering whether to outsource remember to think beyond saving your business time.  Your customers will prefer to have a one stop print shop that can handle all printing requirements. When you are a trusted print provider you will be surprised to learn how much your business will save and the loyalty you will receive from customers.

Outsourcing print is costly and difficult for your business to control’

Laminating is one finishing process that is often outsourced to a finishing print house. At Neopost we supply a range of Komfi laminators capable of handling a wide variety of laminating applications. Komfi offers the leading technology in its class; the equipment is robustly built and easy to use for the print operator. 

If you have freed up some capital expenditure you will be surprised to learn just how much your business will save by keeping this service in-house. Even better again Neopost can help you invest in a laminating solution by financing the equipment through our own Neopost finance department. Now is the time to meet with one of our account managers and see the benefits of the machine first hand.

Damien Fitzgerald of Tralee Printing did just that and here is what he had to say about him Komfi Delta 52 Laminator…

The Komfi laminator is ideal for the type of print work we finish’. We would laminate all types of print including books, covers, folders and business cards’. Damien also went on to say that ‘It is an excellent piece of equipment and very easy to operate’. Investing in a piece of equipment like the Komfi laminator will benefit the company for many years to come and will also benefit today’s price conscious customers as the company is an ideal one stop print shop’.

Contact Neopost now… to view the latest Komfi Delta laminating range. Receive sample finished prints and also discuss the finance options available across the range.