Commercial Printers - Make Them Your Partners

• Be professional in your requests, and don't expect more than was agreed on. Provide detailed specifications that make sense. If you show them that you know what you're doing, they'll treat you like you do.

• Learn your printers' capabilities well. Visit their operations. Learn their margins of profit. Then, don't let them subcontract a portion of your job to a third printer. You lose too much control this way. It's too hard to check on logos and colors.