On-Demand Printing...

An Ideal Solution for an HR Problem

It's 3:15 p.m. Friday when the human resources supervisor calls her employee communications agency. She needs 400 sets of a 157-page employee handbook with five tab dividers reprinted. Two hundred sets must be shipped overnight to Houston on Tuesday.

A phone call by the agency determines that the deadline can't be met by using conventional printing methods. The tabs alone would take four days to produce.

What's the answer? Copies Overnight, of course. One phone call confirms the production schedule and puts the job into motion.

Because a digital file isn't available, the individual pages will be scanned on the Docutech from a printed handbook sample. The tabs will be diecut in Copies Overnight's inhouse bindery department.

Right On Time

At 1 p.m. Tuesday, the client is presented printed samples for final approval. By 3 p.m. the sets are shrink-wrapped and packaged for shipping. Total production time: less than two working days.

Right On Target

Employee handbooks, policy manuals and other technical pieces are ideal candidates for digital printing on-demand. The major advantages are:
your capability to disseminate information fast!
the ability to make changes quickly and economically to keep documents up-to-date
savings in storage and warehousing costs by printing smaller quantities
the ease in reprinting digital files when stored on optical disks

Other benefits offered by Copies Overnight include laser-sharp 600 dpi digital reproduction from original art or digital files...index tab die cutting, laminating and inline insertion...a full range of bindery services...and drop shipping and mailing.

So when you need handbooks, manuals and other looseleaf or bound documents for your employees or your customers, call the company that can meet all your special needs.

Surprise, Surprise...UPS Ups Prices

It was quite predictable. In order to pay for the strike settlement of 1997, UPS has announced a new round of price increases.

Effective February 7, ground shipping rates will be increased an average of 3%. Hidden in the announcement is this fact. The discounted CWT weight prices UPS gives to its biggest customers (like Copies Overnight) for volume shipments will be raised an average of 7%.

Not to Worry

As we've stated before, Copies Overnight has never relied on UPS as our primary shipping supplier. This means we will use commercial trucking firms more frequently to give you the best value in both price and on-time delivery.

And now...we can think about the pending contract negotiations with the pilots union and how much more that will cost air freight customers.

Give Us a Call...We'll Be Here

Once again, Copies Overnight will work all the business days in February. These include Ground Hog Day, Lincoln's Birthday, St. Valentine's Day, President's Day, Washington's Birthday and Ash Wednesday.