So, you are looking for cheap printing of your flyers, leaflets or menus etc for your business? Well you have come to the right place … for some sound advice that is! We thoroughly understand the desire to find a printing service that will print all your business cards, flyers, leaflets, menus, stationery, packaging advertising and promotional marketing materials for as cheap as possible. Saving money and cutting costs on printing is a great idea in theory but what will you actually get for your money? Well, from years of experience we can tell you that you are most unlikely to be pleasantly surprised, you are more likely to experience the opposite and get a nasty shock! In our time spent posting leaflets, flyers and menus, through letterboxes, door to door for our distribution service, we have seen some shockingly bad quality of printed materials. ( To be clear, these have been provided by clients who chose to go with cheap printers. Our own print standards are premium quality.) What we have seen and had the misfortune to handle, is seriously poor standards of print quality. One instance in particular springs to mind, it was a restaurant menu that was so badly printed that you would never want to eat there if that is the level of care and attention they take of their business. So what exactly can be so bad? Let us tell you.
- Poor quality cheap paper that is far too thin for printing leaflets and flyers
- Paper that is see through, crumpled and torn
- Poor quality cheap inks used on the wrong type of paper
- Blurred, faded, streaked, wrong coloured, illegible
- Alignment – images and text wandering all over the place
- Mismatched batches
- Print guide crop markings still visible
- Wonky folding
- Ragged edge cutting
- Edges all stuck together, so not a stack of leaflets but a clump of unopenable leaflets
- Inadequate or inappropriate packaging that results in damage
So if you initially thought that cheap business cards, leaflets and flyers printing was a good idea you might now want to think again. View the gallery of shame below for a visual representation of what cheap printing looks like before choosing your printing service. Do you really want to damage your business reputation or put off potential customers with poor quality printed materials? Do you want to waste your time and money getting replacements after receiving unusable printed materials? We recommend opting for higher quality printing in the first place as it will definitely save you money and hassle in the long run. To conclude, simply put, you will get what you pay for.
Cheap Printing Gallery Of Shame!
Paper is very thin, resulting in looking cheap and crumpled.
Paper is very thin, flimsy and see through. It is not fit for posting, it would simply tear.
The image at the top shows the poor quality printing of the first flyers. The image below shows the better quality printing of the replacement flyers. The business needed to throw away the first flyers and buy replacement flyers for their event from a different print supplier. Would you choose to use the one at he top? No!
Poor quality printing makes QR codes unusable.
Poor transit conditions results in damage. The contents appear to be just thrown in.
Simply appalling, not fit for purpose and destined for the bin.