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Understanding High-Volume Commercial Printing

Businesses across various sectors often have extensive printing needs requiring specialized equipment and services capable of delivering speed, quality, and cost-efficiency. From marketing materials to packaging products, the ability to print a high volume of materials is crucial for enterprises to meet customer demand and fuel growth.

Understanding the landscape of high-volume commercial printing, including the technologies, processes, and scope, provides insight into its practicality.

What Is High-Volume Commercial Printing?

High-volume commercial printing refers to the large-scale production of printed materials for business purposes. This encompasses everything from books, magazines, and newspapers to marketing collateral, product packaging, manuals, and more.

The “high-volume” distinction means the ability to produce very large print runs, often consisting of thousands to millions of impressions, in a short period of time. The equipment and workflows are optimized to handle these sizable jobs rapidly and economically.

Who Uses High-Volume Commercial Printing?

Nearly every industry leverages high-volume printing for key materials. Some of the most common users include:

  • Direct Mail and Marketing Companies – Businesses engaged in direct mail and marketing campaigns often require high print volume for creating and distributing promotional materials like postcards, flyers, and catalogs.
  • Publishing Companies – These companies address the high demand for printed books, newspapers, magazines, and directories with extensive printing technology, like large offset web presses.
  • Retailers and Brands – Retail businesses with multiple locations may have high print volume needs for point-of-sale displays, signage, catalogs, advertising materials, and in-store promotions. Digital production presses offer speed and customization for on-demand materials.
  • Government Agencies – Vast quantities of forms, records, certificates, manuals, and reference materials are needed by federal, state, and local government entities.
  • Financial Institutions – Banks and lenders rely on commercial printing services for customer statements, checks, letters, informational brochures, transaction records, and promotional offers.
  • Education Sector – Schools, colleges, and universities have continual requirements for high volume output of everything from admissions paperwork to textbooks, course packets, and diplomas around graduation season.
  • Healthcare Facilities – Hospitals, clinics, and healthcare organizations generate a significant volume of patient records, medical forms, and informational brochures.

Understanding the Costs of Printing Across Industries

Many sectors rely heavily on printing vast amounts of paper to conduct business operations and administer services. As established, leading industries for paper usage include education, law, medicine, accounting and finance. For example, schools utilize over 47 billion sheets per year—approximately 262 million pages daily—for assignments, study materials and administrative needs. Lawyers also deal with extensive paperwork, generating an average of 60,000 pages annually or 240 pages every day per attorney.

Similarly, the medical field handles huge patient documentation plus research content, with a typical 1,500-bed hospital printing over 8 million pages monthly. Accounting follows by necessity of financial statements and client forms, averaging 35.5 pages daily per employee. And lastly, finance focuses on vital records and regulatory filings, projecting steady paper usage averaging 20.2 pages printed per user in coming years.

So while movement toward digitization continues, these document-intensive sectors maintain heavy reliance on high volumes of printing.

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The Importance of Regulating High Print Volume

Along with fulfilling important business needs for companies across industries, some key benefits of high-volume commercial printing include:

  • Cost-Efficiency – Producing items in bulk significantly reduces per-unit costs
  • Speed – High-volume printers can turn around jobs much faster
  • Quality – Specialized equipment can offer exceptional print quality
  • Customization – Digital printing allows mass customization in variable data jobs
  • Sustainability – Optimized production has less wastage and energy use

For these reasons, high-volume commercial printing delivers tremendous value as part of an overall content and communications strategy.

Common Printing Methods for High-Volume Production

Specialized commercial printing providers offer these different technologies to match clients’ quantity, quality, substrate, budget, and schedule requirements across high-volume production jobs. Some common printer types include:

  • Offset Lithography Printing – This technology utilizes metal plates and roller systems to transfer inked images onto substrate sheets. It delivers unbeatable quality and cost-efficiency on large print runs, making it ideal for high-volume production of magazines, catalogs, newspapers and books.
  • Digital Inkjet Printing – This direct-to-page digital printing method uses variable data to customize prints and is great for short runs and on-demand work. Plus, it enables customization and targeted printing even in high quantities. DIgital printing is best suited for on-demand marketing literature and transactional documents.
  • Flexographic Printing – In this process, web-fed rolls utilize flexible relief plates ideal for high volume packaging, labels and bags. It’s extremely fast, allowing thousands of feet printed per minute.
  • Gravure Printing – Here, cylinders with engraved wells transfer specialized inks ideal for long print runs with fine detail like magazines. Due to significant setup costs, using this method for large volumes is the most economical choice.
  • Specialty/Finishing – This unique printing technique produces additional equipment like bindery machines, die cutters, foil stampers etc.

Adapting to High-Volume and Large Format Prints With a Printing Service

Choosing the right managed print service provider is essential to effectively meet high quality printing demands. The perfect partner will offer advanced printing equipment like professional-grade copiers and high-speed color printers to handle heavy workloads. Exceptional image quality is also vital to print fine details accurately in formats like oversized engineering diagrams or complex spreadsheets.

Additionally, a service provider should assist in goal achievement by bringing graphic designs to life with vibrant colors, leveraging finishing options like binding for professional appearance, and providing experienced guidance through complex jobs. With the right capabilities, resources and expertise, print needs from high-quantity runs of promotional brochures to enormous format building schematics can be fulfilled seamlessly.

Partnering with a service like Connected Office Technologies ensures businesses obtain outstanding, automated printing results rather than settle for mediocrity in meeting their diverse and heavy print demands.

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Don’t settle for mediocre printing services when you can have exceptional results. Discover the benefits of Connected Office’s production printing and reach new heights in your business. Contact our genuine and enthusiastic team today for all your printing needs.

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