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Our Chinese Partner Achieves ISO 9000 Certification

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:27:20 +0000

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.

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.

Our London Division Reaches Into Europe And Beyond

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:09:12 +0000

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.

Shanghai Connections

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:48 +0000

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.

Doing Business Internationally? Try ishipdocs…

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:30:39 +0000

More 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.

Houston To Australia – In 36 Hours

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:33:28 +0000

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.

To learn more, click here and we’ll be in touch shortly.

Ship Your Pixels, Not Your Prints

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:45:44 +0000

A few weeks ago, our division in Atlanta, Georgia was asked by a local architectural firm to distribute drawings and specifications for a new federal courthouse building in Austin, TX to various team members in multiple cities across the country.

Most shops would print and ship. We did it the other way around – with a new service we call ishipdocs™.

Six orders for a full set of design drawings arrived in our Atlanta offices on a Friday, with a delivery due date for the following Monday. Rather than printing the drawings, boxing them up and shipping them overnight to six different locations, we simply scanned and shipped them – digitally – to our printing facilities closest to the recipients. On Monday morning, the drawings were printed and delivered before the team members finished their first cup of coffee.

No boxes, no labels, no trucks or airplanes, just a huge network of print partners.

In 350 locations worldwide, there’s hardly a square mile on earth we can’t get documents do when you need them. Ask about ishipdocs for your next print distribution.

It’s easy, it’s earth-friendly, and it’s fast.

We Bring the World To You

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:19 +0000

Doing business in Europe, the U.K or China? We may be local, but we have you covered overseas, too. A steady client contacted our Houston division recently to ask if we could get a job printed in the U.K. He didn’t want to deal with customs delays and needed the job done in a day or two – the usual situation for us. We said: “No problem.” And we meant it. Houston called London, the necessary files for a series of large full-color posters were sent digitally to London, printed, and delivered to British Petroleum’s London offices the next day. Way ahead of deadline. If you need to get your presentation or marketing materials to the U.K. or Europe in a hurry, click HERE. American Reprographics Company has several locations in China, too, all actively supporting the construction of some of the world’s most impressive building projects, and ready to help you with your project. Our business practices remain identical on both sides of the Pacific. Our locations in Beijing and Shanghai can do everything a shop in the U.S. can do – and they want to prove it to you. American Reprographics Company (ARC) locations in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou are already supporting landmark projects in those areas – with other projects in even the most remote regions accessible through “in-country” overnight delivery service. If you have any questions about doing business in China, Europe, UK or anywhere else in the world, don’t hesitate to fill out this short form and our “International Concierge” will respond to you in person to make sure your overseas needs are met.