Copying from one sheet to thousands; fast turn around; in colour and
black and white
The Blog
Copying is one of the most interesting parts of
running a high street print shop. In the middle of a business area.
Whilst lots of big companies either have their own
print departments or even high end copying machines, other companies have
realised it doesn't make much sense to invest in expensive technology that
often seems to misbehave at the most inconvenient times. We should know, we
have two of them and as
Hunkin
reported in his zany documentary on copying machines "its a miracle they
work at all"!
Catherine is perhaps an atypical customer.
She rang the shop and, after a chat with my sociable wife, she passed the
call over to the nearest technical person to hand... me.
After listening to her tale of woe, I got the
wrong end of the stick. Catherine is American, she was phoning from the
States (on her mobile as it turned out); her printer had posted her
dissertation but it had got lost. Immediate sympathy from me but why get me,
in the UK, to reprint? There are Minuteman Presses on every street corner in
the US. Catherine eventually got me to understand she had been studying at
Manchester Metropolitan University but had gone home to the States to finish
the dissertation. The dissertation had only to be delivered down the road,
not back to the US, as I thought. (After thought, the power of Google,
allows US citizens to find a printer in the UK near Manchester).
We proceeded to used the power of modern
communications, mobile phone, Skype, ftp, email, courier to print and bind
two dissertations (including CD copy) to MMU for the following day.
Another happy customer. At least that what Catherine said. "Thank you so
much for all of your help!"
Talking of world wide franchises; one of the most interesting customers was
the welder in the USA who bought business cards off us in Stockport. Using
our online system. Not what I was expecting, really; perhaps there is a
Stockport in the USA we had been mixed up with? It seemed a bad business
arrangement on our behalf, due to the high cost of postage to the USA but
this was mostly compensated for by the fact exports don't have to pay VAT.
The online price included VAT.
