Beyond Print Services: Why You Need More Than Just a Printer (Part 2 of 2)

In our last blogpost, we started a two-part series focused on the offerings and features that larger organizations need from their print and mailing services providers, in addition to the basics. It’s not just about submitting a file, having the printer create the collateral, and then mailing it out to the addressees. For clients such

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Why All Warehouses Are Not the Same–Which Do You Need?

In communicating with prospective fulfillment clients, our team at Spectra finds that there is a great deal of misunderstanding out there concerning the nature of warehousing. In general, organizations tend to make assumptions about how a third-party fulfillment provider is handling their inventory. Those assumptions are a big mistake, especially if the inventory in question

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Beyond Print Services: Why You Need More Than Just a Printer (Part 1 of 2)

Outsourcing print services means very different things to different organizations. For a very small startup or nonprofit, it may be as simple as engaging a printer to produce a short run of brochures to begin publicizing the organization. On a slightly larger scale, a new franchise may need to send a circular mailer to all

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Why Data Security Must Be Proven – Not Just Promised

Have you ever been browsing through the different selections at a grocery store and decided to go with the one labeled “farm fresh”? Maybe you wanted to be an ethical shopper and selected a package that was marked “responsibly sourced” even though it cost a few dollars more than a competing brand. The dirty little

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Four Mistakes Your Print Provider Might be Making

“Business as usual” feels comfortable. Once you have a system set up with a third-party provider, all the software platforms are finally linked, and everyone knows what they’re supposed to do, it becomes easy to simply let things progress month after month. The danger with that feeling of comfort, however, is that it could hide

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