Shree Printing

I am having an Indian wedding in a few months and did not want to get invitations online as I’ve heard so many nightmare stories of how they come back from being shipped as well as the upcharge for printing and shipping, plus to order samples and such is a headache, so I searched for something local where I could go view the invitations. Jagdesh (sp?) at Shree Printing was very nice. When you go the place though, it’s a dive. It was cold and he just pulled a space heater next to me while was looking. Also, the doors were locked so I had to call for him to come open it. So it’s kind of sketchy and not a very clean organized place, and once I sent him my text via email for the invite, he never confirmed — so I called and he confirmed he got it and I arranged to come in again to see the proof. This is the important part. Look over it to make sure it’s centered how you want and the artwork looks the way you want — there were things I had to change. But once I had changed them and approved it, I paid cash, it came in two weeks and they were PERFECT and beautiful. Though I was nervous about it initially with all these factors, it was a great deal and cheaper than anything online, so I went for it — and they came back awesome! So now I can safely say I highly recommend them for Indian wedding invitations. Everyone loves our wedding invitations.

I went here to get wedding invitations printed and was not impressed with either the service or quality of the printing. I tried haggling for a discount, but the owner reasoned that it is the quality of work that is important, which I agreed with. Alas, they did not deliver on their quality claims: there were splotches of ink on a number of pieces, and the solid lines on the maps did not print very solid. They had 2 weeks to process this job, but I believe they only started on it the day I was supposed to pick them up — I had to go back a few hours later because it was not ready. The owner’s son has a better handle on customer service and apologised for this delay, and while the owner took off $ 20 for the order being late, he did not openly apologise for it. I’d rather spare the $ 20 than take the extra time and hassle to go back because it wasn’t ready! I also dropped off envelopes for them to print the return address, and I discovered when I reached home that there were ~10 envelopes missing — thankfully I had enough for my purposes…
Being the lazy person that I am, I couldn’t be bothered to look around for another printer, so I went back to get the wedding programmes printed. I should have known better, because again the quality was lacking: the text printed fine but the graphics printed faint. When I asked the owner about it, he said that it’s because the graphics in the file are half-​tone, which is utter rubbish. I didn’t care enough cos I’m not bridezilla and it doesn’t look terrible if you don’t know that the graphics are supposed to be the same colour as the text, and I was frankly tired of reasoning with him, so I left it at that. Also, there were black marks around the folds on a number of the programmes. I asked the owner about it, and again he gave me some lame excuse that that’s due to the stopper from the folding machine. Get your stopper cleaned! He gave me $ 25 off, but as before, I’d rather him keep the $ 25 and deliver clean printing!
The bulk of Shree Printing’s business appears to be ornate Indian wedding invitations, so maybe they excel in this area, but it’s a little hard to believe that they can do a good job with this if they can’t even get basic printing right. They do offer good prices, which is what brought me in in the first place, so I guess you get what you pay for, right?