If you’re in business, whether you’re a small, medium or even a growing company, you need printed materials. Letterhead, brochures, business cards and signage are all still vital components to running a business. While most companies are pretty twenty-first century with their websites, on-line ordering and customer service support, many of them are still wasting gasoline driving to the print shop to order custom printing for which they pay way too much money. Why? All it takes is a little bit of your inner-geek and you’ll be printing your own business materials in no time, and saving both time and money doing it, too.

The initial cost of a decent color printer is going to be offset quickly by how much you save when you switch from the local guys doing your printing, to doing your own online printing with sites like PsPrint. On-line print vendors make it very simple for you to print your own letterhead and other paper materials right in your office. Don’t worry that the finished product is going to look amateur either. The on-line printing sites offer templates that are designed by professional artists for you to use in creating a custom look for your printed business materials. Their user-friendly design software can turn even a minor-league computer geek into an Internet printing guru in just a few easy steps. Or, if you’ve got the skills, you can upload your custom designs into their template and make the look more your own.

You can get your printed materials cheaper by doing it yourself. You get the expertise of print professionals at a fraction of the cost, too. Plus there is no shipping to pay because you print it all in house. With all of these pluses in its favor, the only reason I can see to visit the local print shop these days is if you work there.