A monthly newsletter about document management, digital print technology and printing.

Our Chinese Partner Achieves ISO 9000 Certification

January 2010

If your firm does business in China, you know that it’s often difficult to understand the culture, language and business practices well enough to determine the quality of a vendor or service provider you’re working with.

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Photo: UDS President Mr. Pei shows off UDS’s recently acquired ISO 9000 certificates.

Globally recognized quality certifications can help find the right partner, and that’s why we’re pleased to announce that our sister division, UDS received their ISO 9000 quality certification in December.

UDS is an ARC joint venture with the Chinese technology giant, Unis, and offers reprographic services, on-site services, technology integration and equipment and supplies throughout mainland China.

Three primary locations serve as the hub of our operations in China – one in Beijing and two in Shanghai.

Customers can either utilize our services in-country, or coordinate the printing and delivery of documents from the U.S. and other countries using ishipdocs, our digital shipping service. Talk to your sales rep, or request more information here.

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Our London Division Reaches Into Europe And Beyond

December 2009

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London has suffered under the ongoing recession along with the rest of the world but it remains a global hub of finance and business for business and projects of all kinds.

Reprographics Warehouse, the ARC division located in the heart of London’s business district, is playing its part, relaying jobs from around the world to far-flung destinations in Europe, Canada, the U.S., China, and many places in between.

Fast, international turnaround often comes by way of a mistake – the file was produced incorrectly by another vendor, a typo was found, as package was lost or the file was corrupt. In cases like these, our team in London locates and fixes the problem on the spot and sends the project on its way.

In other cases, it’s all about speed. In concert with other ARC companies around the world, Reprographics Warehouse has sent files of fine art from London artists to New York galleries, project plans from Las Vegas to Dubai, and promotional flyers from Belgium to Beijing, all in a matter of hours, with no stops at international distribution centers, or delays in customs.

The key to all these globe-trotting documents is ishipdocs™, our “digital shipping” Web application that allows our customers to send documents to hundreds of print partners around the world.

Rather than printing, packaging and shipping via an overnight or international shipping company, we can send your documents close to their final destination before the documents are actually printed, and then deliver locally. The savings in time are dramatic, and we can often cut your shipping costs by half.

If you’re next job needs to get to London – or cross-country, or anywhere else in the world – drop us a line or give us a call about ishipdocs. We’ll show you how we can save you time, money and headaches by shipping digitally, and printing locally.

Shipping work digitally is becoming easier every day, whether it’s around the corner or around the world. Contact us to learn more about how to improve your project distribution practices.

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Shanghai Connections

November 2009

There are a lot of ways to move documents around these days, and if you do it digitally, you can save money, time and a tremendous amount of hassle – especially if you need to move documents outside of the U.S.

The trick has always been to find someone who could produce documents accurately at the other end of the document transition.

If Shanghai is a destination for your documents, we’ve got you covered!

Using ishipdocs and our new sister company, Shanghai UNIS Printing Technology Co., Ltd. or “UPT” for short, it’s like having our reprographics shop in downtown Shanghai, China’s largest city and the hub of the country’s commerce and finance activities. UPT employs 52 people and provides a variety of reprographics equipment and reprographics services to a large international clientele.

Are you or your clients moving documents to Shanghai… or Beijing, the UAE, SouthEast Asia or anywhere else in the world? Ask us about how we can help save you up to 50% off your shipping costs with our international network of print partners.

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Doing Business Internationally? Try ishipdocs…

October 2009

uds_receptionistMore companies are taking advantage of our ishipdocs digital shipping offering as comfort with the application continues to grow.

And why not? If you’ve got documents you need shipped to and printed in Beijing or Moscow – we can do it. We’re doing it every day.

At our Shanghai office recently, the entire staff pitched in to support the printing needs of clients like Gensler, NBBJ, Maison Worley Parsons and others. Not only the production team but the entire sales team and even administration people chipped in to bring the job in ahead of deadline. In four short days the Shanghai office produced more than 300,000 prints, 1,000 hand-made color books and 200 color boards in support of Gensler and their other clients in the region.

Don’t know what ishipdocs can do for you? Contact Us and we’ll be happy to show you.

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Houston To Australia – In 36 Hours

June 2009

bike-outback5 A Texas oil company needed a packet of important documents sent from its Houston offices to a conference in northern Australia – and they needed them there fast. 

What would you do?  Alert the mail room?  Put the local delivery company on standby and prepare to pay exorbitantly?  Our client wisely chose to have us send their documents via ishipdocs, a digital shipping system which skirts the security and customs lines and gets your documents where they need to go, when they’re needed.

With ishipdocs we were able to send the needed files to Australia with a keystroke, have them printed there and delivered within hours – 36 hours in all from the moment they were sent from Houston to the time they reached their intended destination in Darwin, Australia.

No flight delays, customs checks, exorbitant shipping charges.  Something to consider next time you’re up against a deadline, wouldn’t you agree?  If you feel ishipdocs might be able to help you solve your next shipping crisis, click the ishipdocs link to learn more.

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