Overnight Prints
With a name like Overnight Prints, one would expect fast service from the online printing company at overnightprints.com, but in actuality, the company provides much more than a brick-and-mortar printer in the way of available products and services too.
All the standard print products – business cards, postcards, bookmarks, brochures, posters, letterhead and envelopes and address labels – can be ordered on the website. The list doesn’t stop there, however. Greeting cards and rack cards provide somewhat less typical marketing pieces but are also available for online printing.
Getting away from the paper goods, the company also offers self-inking stamps and magnets. One additional service, which you don’t usually find is offered, is mailing. Talk about a done-for-you marketing campaign! Without even shipping your marketing materials to your office, Overnight Prints will mail them to your customer list or one of theirs.
If you’d like to have your advertisement sent to their mailing list, simply enter a search term and click on the options to narrow down the list to your exact target demographic, and then they will mail your ad to the number of targeted addresses that you choose. The top-level mailing list search box indicates a pool of 10,028,088 businesses in their database.
Search criteria can be business type, size of business, geography, and “other popular selections,” and within each of those you get a long list of possibilities to choose from.
Committing to order from an online company can be unnerving, so to make the introduction smoother and the purchaser more confident, free samples are available. There is a “Free Samples” tab on the overnightprints.com homepage, and there you can submit your mailing info and select the types of products you are most interested in and they will be sent to you.
The other thing on the “Free Samples” page is the “Huge Online Design Catalog” and they are not exaggerating. Thousands of photographs and graphics are available to use in designing your business cards and, of course, you can upload your own images.Seven different layouts are available for the text portion alone, allowing flexibility in content and style.
Overnight Prints Makes Designing High Quality Products a Breeze
Design guidelines are provided for preparing artwork. There is a specific guide for each type of software that you may be using, so you don’t have to suffer through the annoyance of the frequent “If your software has _____, do this, otherwise do____.”
Specific upload directions are given for Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Fireworks, Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and even OpenOffice. There is a different step-by-step procedure given for each product, so no matter how inexperienced you are, you can use your own graphics to design professional products.
