Renaissance Printing Co

Disappointing. Years ago I used Renaissance w satisfaction. Times change. I called and spoke to a manager who I wont name about a job recently (layout and design for cookbook w photos, everything already in digital file format just needing a graphic designers touch; he asked for specs via phone then asked me to send him a digital copy of my work and promised a quote within a few days. Despite several follow up messages on my part I never received a quote nor a courtesy call or even email of any kind. After a week I gave up. I felt disgusted that I put time and energy into a useless interaction. Time is money and Renaissance wasted mine.

Renaissance Printing treated my small project with respect, explained things clearly, and did a great job on it. I would not hesitate to go there again.

The people here are very professional, knowledgable, & helpful. The only problem I’ve ever had was my fault due to my partner not reading a proof carefully. The manager, Lashelle handled it with class & delicately (having to tell me that we screwed up). They’re the ONLY full service printer in town IMHO.

Great service. Super friendly staff and quality work! And locally owned and operated…

They’re the largest printing company in the Gainesville area and also appear to own or operate Target Copy – a fact they seem not very forthcoming to admit but if you ask where things go when sent «to our other location» for printing from the Target Copy on University Aveune (a large outfit in itself) they’ll finally admit it’s over to Renaissance’s main office.
I’m not detailing this just for the sake of trivia but so people will know whether you select Target or Renaissance, you’re getting the same deal overall, however, I found the staff at Target Copy far better than most at Renaissance. In both cases, the staff is overall friendly and helpful, but the folks at Renaissance seem a little confused on basic printing terms and technologies. Case in point, three different people at Renaissance could not seem to understand what a dye-​sublimation printer was, whether they could or could not do foil-​stamping, and what technology in their plant would produce the closest results to (a) an IRIS print or (b) traditional lithography. Granted, these are questions they may not get every day from most customers who desire simple photocopying or the like, however, they are terms and questions common to the printing industry and concepts anyone who has had even a high school graphic design course should understand (in fact, I first learned of all the above save the IRIS in my 10^th grade graphic design class). All the staff, again, we unfailingly polite and apologized many times for *not* being able to answer my questions, but that still doesn’t (in very literal terms) get the job done because I couldn’t leave my job TO be done since I couldn’t discern whether they had the capacity to DO the job. Gah.
I’m giving Renaissance three stars though for a polite staff and fast turn-​around for the type of everyday printing and copying jobs they do for the majority of their clients. If you need a menu printed for your restaurant, new business cards, or simply a lot of photocopying, I believe you can trust them to do it at a fair price and in a prompt manner. However, if you’re a graphic designer, publisher, fine artist, or anyone else who needs more sophisticated printing I cannot recommend Renaissance in full, and would probably suggest either StorterChilds for large jobs or for art prints maybe Harmon’s/Flair, though all my art stuff now I send to Old Town Editions in Alexandria, Virginia who are awesome for what they do but far away and not cheap, either.

Friends are always telling me I can get my printing done cheaper online, but at Renaissance I get excellent service and knowledgeable staff. In addition, I’m keeping my money in my community, which is a plus. I’ve been using Renaissance for years, and am very happy with them.

Our company has used the services of Renaissance Printing for many years. I want to compliment them for their quick turnaround time — 24 hours for most projects — and excellent customer service.
On their website it says free pickup and delivery, which sounds very convenient, although I have not used those services personally.
I only gave 4 out of 5 stars because there are no computers for customer use in the store (I don’t know about other storefronts of theirs), which would have been helpful in the editing process of proofs they were doing for us.
Over all, I have been very happy with our interactions and the quality of their work.