I have several friends where I design posters and brochures for. However, most artwork is on my computer and needs to be printed out. The last time I designed a poster my client was asking where it could be printed, since I mostly only stick to the designing part. Travelling over the web reveals a great amount of online printing companies, and I came into contact with a particular one: nextdayflyers.com. In this post I’ll review this printing company. M-Sign.nl is starting to review!
Next Day Flyers:
Next Day Flyers is a printer specializing in offset printing with a quick turnaround. Orders placed by 10AM PST can even be ready for shipping or pick up on the same day.
Products offered include an array of club flyers, business cards (traditional, folded, rounded corners), brochures, bookmarks, tickets and more.
The website is user friendly and orders can easily be placed online. However customer service reps are available by phone and online chat if/when needed.
The Next Day Flyers blog has lots of great marketing tips and inspirational designs.
Services
Their most important services are divided into two areas:
- Thick Cardstock, where you can print items such as business cards, postcards, menus, tickets to even doorhangers and custom die cuts prints. The last makes it able to pop out a certain shape from a printed item, e.g. a valentines card where you can pop the heart out to use as a special coupon. Besides regular printing, Next Day Flyers emberasses me with these creative ways of printing.
- Glossy Paper, the name says it all: for glossy prints. From glossy booklets and brochures to dvd inserts. The latter makes you able to easily have professional covers for your own produced cd’s or dvd’s.
After printing products are ordered, they are placed very fast. According to more customer reviews, they have very good prices. Besides they have excellent customer care in the form of phone contact and online chat. What is excellent about their services is that every service is described in details and are ordered on a logic way on the website. When selecting a service, and clicking on ‘view details’ a well written description is given and a useful cost calculator. More can be found about this under ‘user interaction and friendliness’. An important point that can not be forgotten is the safety of the shopping, which is secure and furthermore Next Day Flyers is an accredited business.
User interaction and friendliness
There are some points which I noticed when reviewing the website on user friendliness.
- The ‘First Time Here’ button which can help you when you are new and the express checkout which can be used to calculate prices very fast. These are two useful ‘tools’ which can be accesed immediately from the homepage. When clicking the first time here button, you will arive at a three step wizard which is easy to use and a good way to select your desired product.
- Quick links in the footer to different options. On nextdayflyers.com, you are able to design your prints online with a useful tool. It is also well documented with videos how it works. After selected a certain print product (having a digital design finished) you can easily upload it online. They can even mail prints for you, which is a bonus to the services they already have. The help center link is also present and if you have questions or need help it is very easy to find.
- It is good to see the ability to track your orders or see your order history.
- When viewing a certain print product, as shown below, it comes with a very useful cost calculator. Also the next step (design online or upload your design) is shown so you know as customer what is ahead of you. With steps it is often confusing when, in what order and how many steps to take but on this website it is clearly communicated.
The Blog
The blog is like an extra. Especially for designers it is interesting, because there are many tips on printing, trends, marketing and there are even freebies! Besides it makes the relation with the company closer, because you can follow what their interests are, how they write and learn from their expertise. Looking to the rate new posts are written, they take the blog very seriously as well. It is not just an extra to keep in touch, but it is updated regularly as well.
What do others say?
While reviewing, it is also good to view the perspective to see how genuine the review is. The source of information used is google.com and maps.google.com.
- Marvelous, Marvelous Job: We had a centennial celebration for a little white house in southeast Washington, DC on the 25th of July. One of the giveways was a recipe book. Next Day Flyers did a superb job. The colors, the quality, the pictures and the arrival time were perfect. Great job. I would recommend them to anyone, anytime.
- Great Experience! The customer service could not have been better. They caught a problem with the flyers that I designed and kept in constant contact until the order was completed. I received the finished product today and I am extremely satisfied. This is exactly the way business should be done.
- Wouldn’t print anywhere else.. PERIOD! This is THE cheapest printer in the nation for business cards and flyers with the BEST quality. I’ve printed MANY places and recommend this place to everyone for business cards and flyers. The colors are beautiful, the paper is 14pt cardstock.. very thick and ultra-professional. Cropping is always spot on and clean. I have to confess I’ve had some issues with in-store pickup, but other than that.. these guys have always been amazing — oh.. and not to mention when things have gone awry at pickup time they always fix it with credit/free reprints/etc.. Good job guys!!
- First of all I really never write reviews, but this time I am. My experience with Nextday Flyers has always been great but lately it seems like it is going kinda bad. My Customer Care Rep spoils me in the aspect that I could always depend on her to help me out when I need help and helps me with a postive attitude and is really nice and has good phone manners and makes me feel like I am her only Customer when in reality I know I am not. I been calling and asking for her but no one can really tell me if she is coming back. It is not that the other reps dont help me but they do it with like a bad attitude or like if they dont like there work. I love there quality and price but my question to this company is Michelle P. coming back to work with you guys?????? I truly appreciate her work and in my opinion she is the BEST REP your company has. Besides this matter, for people looking for a printer; nextday flyers is a good print company and really good prices. Customer Service is OK, Michelle’s Customer Service now that was Priceless. I am rating this company average, if Michelle was there I would rate it Excellent! Hope this review helps for thos looking for a print company.
- Fast Service and Great Prices!!!! My first experience with Next Day Flyers was excellent! I placed my order on Friday and I was able to pick it up on Saturday. Next Day Flyers helped me meet my last minute dateline, I had a promotion to do over the weekend, this is the only company that truly offers next day printing. When I picked up my order at their facility all of their staff was very polite. I receive excellent cutomer service, I will continue to do my printng with Next Day Flyers.The prices are great!!!!!!!!
- Incredibly Fast! Great Quality! Cheap Prices! Next Day Flyers always gets me out of a jam when I procrastinate and leave projects until the last minute without charging me an arm and a leg to get it done. I’m able to place my orders before I leave work on day and pick them up at their facility the next day. Their employees are always friendly, helpful, and I’m in and out of there is no time. But I think the best thing about Next Day Flyers is that they make it so that my boss never finds out that I didn’t finish the artwork to our next event the day before we start promoting.
- Consistent quailty and on time delivery: I’ve ordered several times. This company always gets my work done on time and the work is correctly printed. The staff is always friendly – Can’t say enough good things about Nextday – wish my other vendors were this good.
- I use them all the time: I am a free lance web designer, and I have had my business cards printed with them a couple times, and have been happy with the quality. And at that you cant really argue with their prices. The have the lowest prices I have seen anywhere for the quality they give.
- Love Next Day Flyers: I’ve had many company items printed through Next Day Flyers and I’m 110% happy with their service, speed and quality! My company flyers/postcards came out better than I hoped! They have many different pricing options, size options and I love love love that I can literally pick it up the next day!
Read more customer reviews here.
Final Judgement
Next Day Flyers is an excellent printing company which has a good price quality ratio and is very capable of doing all your printing work in different sizes. Their website is clear and gives a lot of information about the different print services they deliver and their prices. Besides they have a nice blog with tips which is interesting for designers. Shortcommings are that they apparently do not ship international and print very very large prints. My final judgement is 4.5 out of 5 stars, which equals excellency.
