This is a question asked quite often... and I can say that, other than doing your entire project in-house, the one thing we do that others in the industry are still trying to copy us is:
"Before your project even begins its manufacturing process, you'll receive an actual production sample -- completed, printed, duplicated and shrink-wrapped -- for your review. After your approval, your finished product will ship in 5 days!"
When your project shows up on your door step, your excited, you open the box, and... a big surprise! It doesn't look like your art you sent to the duplication company. What happen?
In this case, probably several things happened: The company just sent your files to the printer (out-sourced, of course, because it's cheaper) and no proof or test was made. Your project was put on a large press and "ganged" together with several other jobs (this is how you get cheaper print projects). You can't really make any color corrections when your project is ganged with others. Which project do you adjust to?
At National Media Services, Inc, we print your entire project in-house on our stat-of-the-art HP Indigo offset press. This allows us to make a press proof, test your files and make sure everything prints OK. Then we make you an actual production run sample of your project.
No surprises here. You get to touch, feel and listen to your proejct before the work starts. There's always time to make corrections and adjustments to make sure your project turns out the way you want.
