I agree with this article's pros and cons. Heading a company that uses print services very frequently to print the flyers, banners, postcards, door hangers and business cards we design, I would definitely vouch for online print services for larger scale companies.

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I have always found it to be quite easy to use online print services. We design logos and corporate identities and used to actually have a reseller account with Vista Print that we used for printing of stationery for our clients.

In our experience we found that online print companies did not have any problems what so ever with the PDF files or the EPS files that we generated. Nor did they have any problems with the colors.

However when our clients use local offline printers, we found that most them had different standards for bleeds and crop marks and a lot of them did not have Illustrator or other vector editing software to do minor changes to the bleeds before printing.

These clients would then come back to us. We do not a have a problem with this as it would take 2 minutes to change the files to suit that printers bleed settings. However this wastes the client's time and creates stress to the client.

Thanks,
Jeff

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