Many companies outsource their printing needs to a print shop, especially if they require a document that looks professional. However, outsourcing your printing needs isn’t always the greatest choice, particularly if you need your paper quickly, have a tight budget, or are printing highly sensitive or personal information.
This is a problem for many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Due to the high cost of printers and consumables, they struggle to outsource their printing in an efficient and affordable manner, but they cannot afford to do so.
SMBs should think about bringing printing in-house for the following reasons:
1. Exercise
By doing your own printing, you regain control. This means there is no need to wait for your project to be processed at the print shop; your documents are printed when you need them.
2. Safety
You can maintain better security and governance over the data you’re working with if you don’t have to transfer private papers to a print shop for printing. Your private papers won’t be seen by the print shop staff, and there is no chance that it will be stolen while it is being delivered.
Even your internal printers can be set up to demand a code or swipe card before printing critical papers. As a result, it is not possible to print documents and then leave them on the printer. Instead, customers must physically visit the printer to pick up their printouts, thus decreasing the possibility of unauthorised access.
3. Time
How In-House Printing Affect Your Business?
You have more time to spend on document perfection and mistake checking when you don’t need to factor in lengthy lead times for professional printing. As a result, you can continue working on the paper right up until the deadline to make sure all the material is correct and up to date. The time you reclaim can be useful, whether it makes a difference for a few hours or a few days.
4. Amount
Whether you need it or not, you frequently need to order a minimum number to make a print run profitable for a professional print shop. When you print in-house, you may conduct short runs when you need to, which results in fewer unnecessary copies. Nothing is more annoying than having to throw away boxes of flyers because some information has changed.
5. Quality
If your printer is configured properly, in-house printing can produce results that are nearly identical to professional printouts in terms of quality. Because in-house printing produces consistent quality, you may reserve outsourcing printing for specialised tasks that demand specialised tools.
6. Cost
In-house printing is almost always much less expensive than outsourcing to a pro. Additionally, it might be simple to recover those costs with print management software that enables you to allocate printing expenditures to cost centres, clients, or certain projects.
