We have been in the printing business for almost 30 years. Frankly, UPS is good for my business as I am sure we will get more customers as we did with FedX Kinkos. We get about 10 to 20 customers a year who have been very and I mean very disappointed with Kinkos. Forget about real printing-litho-they just don't have it. So their b/w are too cheap and their color is to expense. Any good small print shop can beat that by. Their color copies on #28 laser sells for. 03 cents I think they are really losing money. When you take into account real overhead including,heat, electricity, labor,boxing,delivery etc.what is left is not much if anything. The best price cost to produce the job, not considering overhead, would be about. UPS is just entering the same type of low profit margin jobs as Fedx. This was done at considerable cost and was necessitated by the fact that their stores or just not working. They have dropped the Kinkos name in favor of FedX office. The Fedx business model for printing is not working. The newbies usually don't last very long and are quickly forgotten. The trenches that we printers have become accustomed to surviving in are both merciless and unforgiving. But, we’d like to know what you think about these latest incursions into the print space by companies that certainly have size on their side-but perhaps not much else. The Motley Fool, by the way, thinks that FedEx and UPS are barking up a barren tree with these ventures. In other words, if either or both of the giants are successful, will the industry even notice the pain in the midst of everything else that’s hurting it right now? And, what’s the potential exposure for dedicated online print providers like VistaPrint and ? (Remember the furor over the “Send to FedEx Kinko’s” button once embedded in Adobe Acrobat Reader? Or the ire that HP stirred with its “MarketSplash” program, which it launched and then abruptly pulled back from earlier this year?) The question now is how much the print-for-pay segment actually has left to surrender to FedEx and UPS as they joust over low-margin, commoditized work that’s already priced too low to keep an ordinary print shop going. Quick printers and other vendors of print-for-pay services have been buffeted for years by competition from office-superstore copy centers and by various online schemes that appeared to be doing end-runs around traditional providers.

FedEx also offers a pickup option for orders placed in-store.) (UPS uses a distribute-and-print model whereby customers pick up their finished jobs at the UPS location of their choice.

There’s no shipping charge for jobs with seven-day turnarounds-a break that could prove irresistible to small companies buying printed matter that isn’t time-sensitive. What could give the FedEx initiative a competitive boost is its attractive shipping policy. That would be UPS, which is now billing itself as “the nation’s largest online printing network” for small businesses by virtue of the online printing services it now offers through its 4,400 UPS Stores. Technically speaking, the concept is nothing new, and FedEx already has a competitor poised to do the pretty much same thing on an even grander scale. The templates can be accessed at kiosks in FedEx Office Print & Ship Centers-there are 1,900 of them-or online. This is a high-quality, cost-effective manner for producing documents in small quantities with a quick turnaround time.How concerned should we be about FedEx’s new Design & Print Center “solution”?Īnnounced this week, it’s basically a collection of do-it-yourself templates for everyday printed products that businesses use: cards, letterhead and envelopes, folders, brochures, note pads, postcards, note cards, address labels, flyers, and promotional magnets. Contact your neighborhood location to find out available services.ĭigital printing is a process that allows printing directly from an electronic or digital file to a toner- or ink-based printer. Because all our locations are individually owned and operated, services may vary. The UPS Store offers a wide variety of printing and finishing services, including electronic file access (e.g., e-mails, CDs, USB drives), colour and black-and-white digital printing, black-and-white copies, binding, collating and laminating. Printing services includes printing and copying as well as finishing services for your documents such as collating, binding options, tabbing, laminating and more. Printing Services Frequently Asked Questions

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