Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Does Design Printing Do its Finishing Work In-House?

Design Printing does most of the finishing and assembling work itself and we make sure that your job is completed on time.

If we believe, in reviewing your job, that a certain element (binding, cutting or gluing, for example) of your project is best served by sending it out, we will do that. Ask us!

What can graphic designers do to help keep the printing process green?
  • Be aware of the parent paper sizes and design your art work to get the most on a sheet, leaving less wasted paper.
  • Standards size art work: invitations, brochures, and books that fall into standard sizes and shapes are easier to print, fold or bind and are less expensive to mail.
  • Bundle your jobs, design and print as many elements of the projects at the same time.
  • Minimize the use of metallic inks, UV coatings and other finishes which can affect the recyclability of the paper after it is use.
  • If you are creating banners, leave a space for smaller sections to for date or time changes so you can reuse the main banner and specific times and dates can be printed on a smaller section and changed as needed.
  • If you are creating pages that will be used a lot by many different people, such as a reference catalogue, thoughtful choices of finishes and coatings can add life to those pages and require less frequent reprinting.

What happens to all of the emails sent from an average nonprofit?
  • 18% of emails users are lost to bouncing and churn.
  • Open rates for email messages are 12-13%.
  • Response rates for email messages are .08% to 3.3%
  • Click-through rates are .6% to 3.7%.
  • Compare this to the percentage of mailed items that are read.

-- eNonrpofit benchmarks Study, 2001

If printing uses paper, how is it ecologically friendly?
  • Paper has been the most energetically recycled material over time.
  • In 2009, 63.4% of all paper used in the US was recycled and this percentage grows each year.
  • When tress on paper producing tree farms are harvested, new stocks are planted. Three trees are pants for each one felled; over 1.7 million new tress are panted each year in the US.
  • Only 11% of the world’s forests are used for paper, ( 28% for lumber and 53% for fuel)
  • 12 million MORE acres of forest exist in the US than there was 20 years ago.

- ChoosePrint.org 2010

Why print? What’s wrong with email?
  • Printed things are read; 80% of households either read or scan advertising mail they receive.
  • Print is tangible, intimate, portable and permanent.
  • Over 70% of adults feel more comfortable reading from paper than a screen.
  • Printed catalogs associated with an online site have been shown to boost spending by 28%.
  • Direct mail catalogs have been shown to provide a 7 to 1 ROI and direct response rate of 2. 24% versus only 48% from emails.

    • - ChoosePrint.org 2010

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