When you need to get a printing job done, you can go to a traditional printer. But more and more people are turning to print managers or print brokers and here’s why…

A printer is limited by the machinery he has in his factory. He may have one or two presses only. But print managers sit above every single print process. They can print on any substrate and can organize delivery to any country, any location, any medium, in any timeframe. They are never at capacity.

A printer often does reach capacity. Once their printing presses are booked up, they have reached capacity. Because of the huge number of suppliers a print management Melbourne company has, they never reach capacity. This is good news for you.

Going to one printer, you will get one price for a job. If you had gone to a print management company, the specifications for your job would be sent out to a multitude of printers and a number of quotes received. Some of these are wholesale prices which only the print broker can buy. This saving then can be passed on to you.

A person who does print management Melbourne is similar to a mortgage broker. The mortgage broker is in contact with dozens of banks and lending institutions and can get the best deal for his client and handle everything for him. Similarly, the print manager can easily contact thirty or forty different printers in an automated fashion and then offer you the very best price.

Dealing with a print management company saves you a great deal of time and money and also ensures you get your job done to a very high standard. Experience what Barney’s has to offer by contacting them for your next printing job. Call them at 1300 663 812 today.

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If you want to get your next printing Melbourne job done at a cost effective price, it pays to go to a print management company like Barney’s Print Management. If you get one quote for a particular job, it won’t be hard for Barney’s to match or even beat that price. They have many options. They can get the job done domestically or offshore, depending on your lead time.

The specifications for your job are sent to Barney’s panel of suppliers and twelve quotes can be obtained in the time you are able to get one quote. Barney’s can find the printer who has just the type of machinery which can complete your job most efficiently. This will result in your time and money being saved.

You my need a booklet to be printed. If it is a run of a thousand, that is perfect for a digital press. If two thousand are needed, that would definitely require a conventional offset press. Once Barney’s has this information, they can often make you a saving of 30% or even 40%.

Barney’s also have access to trade printers who offer really good prices. The customer does not have direct access to these printers, but through Barney’s they can benefit from these savings.

Barney’s will get your printing job done to a high standard and at a competitive price as well. Give them a try when your next printing Melbourne project is due. Just click here to contact them.

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You may wonder what the difference is between going to a print broker Melbourne and going to a traditional printer to get your next printing job done.

There are parallels between the job of a print broker and other sections of society. When you are thinking of buying shares, you don’t go direct to the company, say, BHP or Rio Tinto, but rather to a stock broker. This is because the stock broker represents many hundreds of companies listed on the Stock Exchange. He knows about each company and can guide you in your choice of investment. Similarly, a real estate agent is aware of all the properties in the area in which you want to buy a house. You go to him for help rather than wander aimlessly though the streets to chance upon a house for sale.

In like fashion, a print broker or print manager knows all there is to know about print. He can help whether you want the job printed onshore of offshore, whatever substrate you want the job printed on, whatever lead time you have. A traditional printer will know in depth about a narrow subset of the printing industry. He may be skilled in digital printing or in screen printing. This narrow understanding is not much help when you have a pressing job and need some support.

The print broker Melbourne, by contrast, has a wealth of knowledge and is in touch with hundreds of printers, several of whom would have exactly the skill and the machinery to achieve the outcome you require. To tap into this wealth of knowledge, why not get in touch with Barney’s for your next printing job? Call them at 1300 663 812 right now.

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When you get in touch with a print management service company to get you next printing job done, you may wonder what the process will be. Who will you deal with and what are the steps that will be taken to ensure you get a great result?

Garry Barnett, director of Barney’s Print Management, does not come from a technical trade school background in the printing industry. He has spent the last ten years in printing, but prior to that he worked in corporate marketing and customer service. He believes that delivering a great experience is what you the customer are looking for. It doesn’t matter to you necessarily what ink and paper are being used, you just want the job done on time and to the best practice quality.

When you contact Barney’s, you will be in touch with a real person. Barney’s is not a faceless business. The production coordinator you speak to will have technical knowledge about printing and also customer service capability. This person will guide you through the whole print process. The account manager or production coordinator will help you flesh out the specifications for your job.

There is a certain process that you go through from the moment you pick up the phone and call Barney’s Print Management. From the time of your enquiry to the ultimate shipping of your goods, there are series of moments of truth Barney’s will have with you. A series of emails and phone calls will happen in order to gain clarification of the job. There are also quality steps and proofing steps.

On Barney’s website, every page has a one hundred per cent satisfaction guarantee. To be true to this guarantee, there is a seven point quality process. One of these steps is to give you a proof or a test print in order that you can mark up any changes needed.

Once the brief is completely understood, a panel of suppliers who fit the particular criteria is sent a copy of the brief through an automated system. The suppliers all quote on the job. It’s like a private tender on every single occasion. The prices are then listed in ascending or descending order. Every supplier has been vetted, their site inspected so that they all hit Barney’s quality expectations.

Once Barney has approval on your quote, they then require the artwork from you. The work then goes to a proofing stage and the proof is delivered by email as a pdf proof or a physical proof. There is just one point of contact for you: Barney’s. You don’t need to contact twenty or thirty printers, because Barney’s has the supplier base to get any job satisfactorily completed.

Why not try Barney’s print management service out for your next printing job. You will be sure to be pleasantly surprised. Click here to reach them.

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You might need to get a printing job done in rapid time because you have your boss breathing down your neck. Where do you go? Barney’s Print Management can always help with your printing services Melbourne needs.

An example of what they are able to do occurred recently when a major global corporate was about to launch an event. They were worried because they had to have a very fast turnaround for their two hundred booklets. Barney’s was able to promise they could complete the job within twenty-four hours.

Barney’s knows where to position every job and they know the print process. Digital printing is there for the fast turn around, and is on demand printing if you have a short run or medium sized printing job. Barney’s has suppliers dotted around the country.

Another example was when a client rang from Sydney, panicking that they needed to get a job to the Gold Coast the same day. Barney’s have a print facility in Tweed Heads. The job could be completed there and then delivered just down the road to the Gold Coast. Without Barney’s help, the client would have had to ring a printer they did not know and try to organize to get the job done, with the quality of the job a big question mark. Barney’s have over five hundred suppliers who are also mapped on Google Maps. So they can match the location of the printer to your particular job. Once your deadline is known, Barney’s will ensure that this is met every time.

It makes better sense for you to contact a print manager like Barney’s than a traditional printer. A traditional printer can often be operating at capacity. Because a print manager is in contact with hundreds of printers, their bases are never loaded. For example, perhaps you require a large cheque, such as those you see on television when a donation is given to, say, The Children’s Hospital. This requires wide format digital printing services Melbourne.

Your local printer may not be able to accommodate this type of printing. At Barney’s, because they understand all aspects of printing, they know that this can be printed on a flat bed machine and can be finished in sixty minutes. They know which printer has this type of machinery, can contact them, and if he is booked, they can then contact any one of twenty others who can do the job equally well for you.

A print management service like Barney’s can work wonders with any printing job you have and they are only a phone call away. Call them anytime at 1300 663 812

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You may be curious to know what a Pantone swatch book is. A Pantone book is a book of colours which is a tool printing companies use to manage colour accuracy. Pantone is an organization and it establishes a global standard. People in all corners of the world use this same standard.

Take Coca Cola for example. All advertising for this brand uses a particular colour red. Coca Cola wants to make sure the colour is consistent, and the way printers do that is by using a Pantone book.

Each colour in the book has a different reference which means something to those in the print trade. It refers to the colour breakdown that is used when mixing the ink to produce the same colour every time. There is a coated and an uncoated book, which refers to the type of paper that is used. Photocopy paper, for example, is uncoated paper. So the colour soaks into this paper, which it does not when a glossy type of paper is used, such as that used for brochures. The resulting colour will be slightly different according to the paper. For example, if you looked up Pantone192, perhaps the Coca Cola red, it would look slightly different in the two books, because in one, using the coated paper, the ink would stay on the surface.

There are two columns in the book, one is called solid, the way that the ink is mixed, and the other is CMYK, (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK) which are the three primary colours plus black. The three colours, plus black mixed together make millions of different colours. A TV screen is made up of only three colours, Red, Green and Blue, RGB.

With printing, there are usually only four colours used and they are mixed together to get the entire spectrum of colours. To match a colour for a client time and time again, the Pantone book is used.

There is another book which is all about metallic colours. It is the printer’s job to consistently match your metallic silver or metallic gold or any one of a number of other metallic colours.

Every book printed by Pantone is uniform. As new colours are added to the spectrum, new books are brought out. As your job is printed and the first few pages come off the press, the printer can stand with the book and match the colours to confirm that the correct colour has been hit. He does this throughout the print run.

A Pantone swatch book is an insurance that a printer has and is an invaluable tool of his trade, which can help ensure a perfect print run and colour match for your job every time. Experience the best Barney’s has to offer in all things print by contacting them to get a free quote.

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A printer’s loupe magnifier is an eyeglass. It is effectively a magnifying glass. If you look through this magnifying glass, you can see the dots which make up the colour of a printed image. You simply place it on the printed image and look through the glass. A printer can tell a lot about the way a job has been printed by examining it with a loupe. He can tell whether it has been done as a CYMK ( Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and blacK) or a four colour process print job. When there are solid areas on a print job, it shows up as pure solid. This is not visible to the naked eye.

This can be of great help to you, the customer, whenever you need some printing Australia services. You may not fully understand how the inks have been used on, say, a brochure you are interested in reproducing. With the aid of his loupe, the printer can help you with that.

The printer’s loupe is also of use with poor quality printing. A poor quality job is a bit like looking at a 3D movie. It doesn’t look quite sharp. With the aid of the loupe, it can be seen that the inks have not been overlaid properly. The colours have to be overlaid perfectly to get a sharp image. Without the loupe, you can’t tell why the image is not sharp.

This is an essential tool for a printer which allows him to achieve perfect printing Australia. With Barney’s Print Management you can be sure that everything is done to ensure a perfect print job every time. Give them a call today at this number: 1300 663 812.

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Barney’s Print Management can offers a wealth of promotional products to your business. They are able to supply so many things if you want something a bit different for your promotional campaign. You may want custom printing services for items such as apparel, such as caps, polos, jackets or t-shirts.

You may want quirky little pieces such as a cardboard Rubrik’s cube, which can have your company’s brand on each of the different surfaces. Barney’s have supplied stubbie holders to a water filtration company, and even custom made soft toys for a business because that was the company mascot. These can be manufactured offshore or domestically.

Barney’s was once asked to supply 10,000 small packets of jellybeans with the company brand on the packet. An orthodontist wanted to give a gift to those in his practice, so Barney’s supplied gift notebooks with the brand on the front and with branded pens attached. If you want a more traditional product, like a mouse mat, this can be produced in as little as 24 hours.

It takes around five working days, or even quicker if needs be, to produce really large pots of jellybeans that are labeled on the front. Anything from USB sticks to other types of confectionary are within the scope of Barney’s to brand. They have over five hundred suppliers that they can tap into whenever required. If you are looking for an environmental product, or a technological product or any custom printing services, Barney’s is able to get hold of it. If you want to stand out through your use of promotional products, and want someone to handle the whole process, you only need give Barney’s a call at this number: 1300 663 812.

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Garry Barnett form Barney’s Print Management developed a passion for stickers when he was a young lad of ten years. He started a little label printing service called Garry’s Sticker Collection and wrote to hundreds of companies, including petrol stations and radio stations, asking for stickers. He was able to build up an impressive collection comprising thousands of stickers. Today his company, Barney’s Print Management, produces many types of stickers for a wide range of businesses. The labels produced include anything from those used for seed packets, to bicycles, to cafes. Whatever type of sticker you need, Barney’s is able to produce it.

Barney’s know all there is to know about producing stickers and label printing service. They can produce them you’re your company in a number of different ways. When you need long life stickers that are going to be used in direct sunlight, screen printing is the way to go. They can be produced flexographically on rolls, as pre cut A4 sheets or they can be run through a DocuTech for office purposes. They can be split-back for bumper stickers or individual stickers. The stickers can be full colour, Pantone colour matched or produced to withstand UV. If you need a small volume, there can be same day turn around but also large volumes can be produced if you are a big retail client.

Whatever your requirement for stickers, Barney’s will be able to help you achieve it. Click here for a free quote.

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You may be interested to learn whether printing offshore can really result in a cheaper job. Depending on the lead time you have available to get your job completed, printing offshore can often be a very viable and cheaper option than printing domestically.

Garry Barnett, director of Barney’s Print Management set up, with his wife some years ago, a representative office in China. They have people working in that office who have been trained in Australia, so they understand the expectations of the West. It is important that any work completed overseas is quality checked and reaches the standards expected by the West.

Barney’s gives you the option of whether you want the work completed domestically or offshore. If you decide on offshore, do you have the lead time? There are two lead times. Goods can be air freighted back to Australia, or they can be sea freighted which usually takes an extra three weeks, as it takes a week loading on at the port of origin and a week loading off.

A small parcel or carton takes about three days to arrive. Sometimes you may want to ask for a small shipment to be air freighted ahead of time so you can get the project underway.

There are a lot of things to do with offshore printing which Barney’s takes care of for you automatically. This includes taking care of customs, duties, the fluctuating exchange rates, picking the goods up and packing them for international shipping. When the goods arrive in Australia, Barney’s arrange for them to be delivered to your office.

The people in Barney’s team overseas are Chinese nationals, so they are fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. They can therefore trade with Barney’s and also trade with the local marketplace. They are able to speak to people in factories where no one speaks English. These factories are often very good factories, but are not usually accessible to foreigners because of the language barrier. Having access to such factories gives Barney’s the edge and can result in real cost savings for you the customer.

A thorough checking process of the work produced overseas is carried out. This involves Barney’s being sent photographs, samples and first books off the printing press. Random inspections throughout the job also occur to ensure the highest standards are maintained.

When you work with Barney’s printing offshore, all your expectations and deadlines are reached, every time. Trust you next printing job to Barney’s and give them a call today at 1300 663 812.

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