We are a UK business, should we print in house or use a printing company?

With the current economic situation in the UK, companies tend to save money on printed materials. UK businesses now would rather print their document in-house with their office printer instead of using a professional digital printer. But, even if printing in-house looks cheaper at the first glance it is has many disadvantages listed below. • In-house printing provides a lower printing qualityrnEven if your office has a good laser printer, the printing quality will never be as good as commercial digital printing and especially as high as the HP Indigo can offer. Indeed, office printers are made to print general office documents that do not require excellent printing quality. But for your sales letter, brochures or leaflets you need the best printing quality available. UK digital printing companies offer you top quality printed materials at low cost. • In-house printing can be expensivernIn-house printing seems to be cheap because it does not require a supplier. But you still have to support the paper and ink cost. Office printers are very ink consuming so it can easily become expensive if you plan to print many documents. Then, cutting and folding your documents requires special expensive equipments. Digital printing companies, as print professionals buy high quality papers and inks at cheaper prices and that is partly why they offer good quality printed materials at low cost. • In-house printing cannot print large quantitiesrnOffice printers are not designed to print large quantities of pages at the same time. Printing large amounts of documents in-house increases the breakdown risk of your printer and the quality of printed images can be damaged with the number of prints. Many UK digital printing companies offer short run digital print jobs and can print in a few minutes the exact amount you need from 1 to hundreds of copies and at very affordable prices. • In-house printing causes logistics problemrnIn-house printing seems to be easy but what if your printer breaks down during your print job? It causes delays in your job and can easily become a nightmare if you have to ask for a technician to repair your printer or if you have to rush into a specialised store to buy ink. Printing companies deal with all these kind of problems and you don’t have to worry about anything. • Only certain materials can be printed in-housernMost of office printers can produce mainly A4 documents and only on certain types of papers. But it is not possible to print business cards or A3 posters because of the format of the paper type or it will provide you a very bad printing quality. UK digital printing companies can easily print on many different formats and on more than 800 types of paper.