What does this have to do with grand and large format printing services? Everything.

In printing there is a different type of triple play, one that can be equally elusive for print shops and brokers looking for the right wholesale grand format printing partner.

In baseball, the triple play is entirely defensive. The goal is to “retire” your opponent. In grand format printing, the triple play is a powerful positive. Your wholesale printer’s goal is to give you and your customer three distinct benefits:

• Quality
• Price
• Value

Whereas the triple play is very rare in baseball, the right wholesale grand format printer can deliver a triple play for you time after time.

So how can you score a triple play?

Look for a printing company that specializes in grand and large format printing services. If over-size work is a sideline for them, your projects could become sidelined, too. Besides it takes highly skilled, experienced personnel to conquer the challenges of grand format and produce the superior results you expect.

Look for a grand format printer that has you covered, no matter what oddball idea your customer has in mind. The right printing partner is capable of handling any material – to its maximum size available – from sheer textiles to hard substrates they can print on directly. Billboards with large-format display signage to match? No problem. Gigantic magnetics? No problem. Building wraps? No problem.

Look for a printing company that specializes in customers like you. A wholesale-only printer knows first-hand what you’re up against as a broker or sign shop, so they can help you make the most of every job. Need it yesterday? No problem. And since they don’t sell to end-users, you’ll never find them competing with you.

The right grand printing partner is committed to making things happen when and how you need them, delivering exceptional quality and attentive customer service. That’s value. Add in lower wholesale pricing, and that’s the triple play of grand format printing. You and your customers deserve nothing less. For more tips and tricks for choosing a grand format printer, click the button below and download our eBook.

Grand Image Clients:

No, we aren’t talking about their diet, we’re talking about the way they approach their business. Grand format digital printing is, by nature, innovative. To stay on top of their game, your printer must use the best of the best when it comes to tools and processes. That includes lean manufacturing principles.

What is lean manufacturing?

It’s an approach to business operations that focuses on two things:

• Eliminating or minimizing waste to create greater value.
• Continuously improving production processes to create better quality.

Lean thinking and management have become a way of life for manufacturers across virtually all industries. It enables them to work smarter and more effectively, saving time and money and passing those savings along to their customers.

Although lean manufacturing seems only about equipment and processes, the system is actually focused on people. Your grand format printer’s people are the ones who use equipment and processes to continuously devise new ways to provide you – their customer – with greater value.

Lean manufacturing promotes process automation.

For a grand format printer, pre-press automation is especially important. Pre-press is the critical foundation of each of your printing projects. It sets the stage so your customer’s design can be transformed from digital data to a unique, impressive finished product.

Set-up and making that final check involves highly detailed work, and every detail matters. When your printer automates the pre-press step:

• The process goes faster. You and your customer get proofs in significantly less time, reducing overall turnaround time. Big rush? Pre-press automation allows your printer to manage the process reliably to meet your deadline.
• The process goes more smoothly. Automation enables your printer to “gang” projects being produced on the same material. Your job shares with another, saving production time and reducing material waste. You save money.

Your customer may not care about the specifics of set-up, but they do care about the speed and quality of the job you’re completing for them. As a print shop/broker, you’ll be more valuable and more competitive working with a grand format printer who adopts the latest best practices.

Lean manufacturing is based on continuous improvement.

Why choose a printer who is happy with the status quo? Your customers expect more than that, and so do you. New technologies – and, therefore, new capabilities – are constantly emerging. Dedication to continuous improvement assures your printer can respond beautifully to every opportunity you dream up.

Grand Image Clients:

Grand Image 3-Day Production Guarantee

Grand Image is proud to introduce our 3-Day Production Guarantee! We understand the fast-paced nature of trade shows and events, which is why we’re committed to providing top-quality printing with a rapid turnaround time. Our state-of-the-art printing technology and dedicated team of designers, print operators, and finishers ensure your
project is completed in 3 days or less (once your art is approved).

Grand Image’s 3-Day Production Guarantee is an opt-in program designed to give you peace of mind regarding your SEG printing needs. When opting into this program, we guaranteed to finish production on any two-dimensional prints up to 1,500 square feet within 3 days, pending graphics approval and approved payment terms.

With our experienced pre-press department, advanced printing operators, and skilled finishers, we can take your project from start to finish entirely in-house.

Grand Image is a wholesaler to the trade. We know that you need projects for your customers and often need them quickly. You could go overseas, but you wouldn’t see the project for weeks. There are big-time websites offering print services, but they have rigid turn times and often rigid size requirements.

Grand Image believes in flexibility. We work with you to make sure deadlines are met. We can’t do the impossible, but we can certainly do what often seems impossible! If that means kitting and drop shipping to your customer, that’s no problem. Our facility is set up to handle as much or as little of the job as you need.

You will be dealing with a living, breathing account executive when you place your order and they will handle it from when it comes in the door to when it exits the shop. You don’t have to worry about a website telling you about a 5 day turn for a single banner. They will do everything in their power to make sure it gets done

Staying On Our Toes

Things happen. We want to avoid it, but flexibility means accepting it. That’s one reason you have a dedicated account executive. If your files change right before printing, or the quantities change, they are there to make sure the change happens and the timeline is affected as little as possible.

No one wants to make changes, but we understand that customers change their mind. So if your customer drops a last second change on you, we’re ready to work with you to make sure it doesn’t jeopardize the job.

Drop us a line! We will connect you with an account executive that will get the job done.

Grand Image Clients:

Grand Image 3-Day Production Guarantee

Grand Image is proud to introduce our 3-Day Production Guarantee! We understand the fast-paced nature of trade shows and events, which is why we’re committed to providing top-quality printing with a rapid turnaround time. Our state-of-the-art printing technology and dedicated team of designers, print operators, and finishers ensure your
project is completed in 3 days or less (once your art is approved).

Grand Image’s 3-Day Production Guarantee is an opt-in program designed to give you peace of mind regarding your SEG printing needs. When opting into this program, we guaranteed to finish production on any two-dimensional prints up to 1,500 square feet within 3 days, pending graphics approval and approved payment terms.

With our experienced pre-press department, advanced printing operators, and skilled finishers, we can take your project from start to finish entirely in-house.