Printing.com

The printing.com direct agent franchise

A low cost way to join the UK’s largest printing network*

Printing.com is an exciting fusion of IT, printing technology, savvy marketing and lateral thinking. With the addition of the printing.com ‘Direct Agent’ franchise, a new low cost route exists to start your own printing.com business. Once established, the scope exists to progress to other franchise formats, such as our Territory Franchise.

The idea is simple. By centralising print production at our Manchester hub we have radically reduced the investment required to own a printing franchise. You no longer need to buy expensive machinery like printing presses, guillotines and folding machines. But it’s not just a question of reducing costs. Our production model enables a far superior product to be offered at a highly advantageous price point.

Today, printing.com has a network of circa 300 outlets in the UK.

The Direct Agent franchise format is designed to keep the initial start-up costs low as the business starts from a home office or a ‘hot desk’ in a business centre whilst providing the scope to advance to a store format as the business develops.

What does operating a printing.com franchise involve?

As  a printing.com business owner you will be offering a broad range of full colour printing couple with a consultancy lead graphic design service able to meet the vast majority of design and print needs for the SME and corporate business community.

To differentiate your business from other more traditional design and print providers, the printing.com system provides you with the following:-

• A price advantage as our prices are up to 76% lower than others**
• A wide product range incorporating over 3,000 set price print deals covering letterheads, business cards, flyers, folders and the like
• Potent online and offline marketing collateral to help you sell more design and print
• Proprietary software Flyerlink to make day to day order processing ultra efficient
• Private access via Flyerlink to printing.com’s National Production Hub which currently produces 25,000 jobs per month on behalf of our franchise partners

What about training?

Printing.com’s National training Centre provides a leading edge environment for your classroom training needs across a diverse syllabus featuring Sales, Graphic Technology, Graphic Design and Marketing.

Who are we looking for?

To be successful with printing.com requires competence across the five important disciplines of Design, Sales, Networking, Marketing and Commercial Acumen. Whilst many of these skills can be developed under our training programs, prospective franchise partners should be IT savvy and enjoy working with software design programs such Publisher, Powerpoint and Photoshop and have experience of running proactive sales initiatives.

Liquid Capital Requirement        £5,000

Typical Bank Loan                      £9,000

Total Requirement                      £14,00