{"id":1274,"date":"2011-07-26T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T00:05:34","slug":"colorfx-inc-featured-in-american-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/colorfx-inc-featured-in-american-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"ColorFX, Inc. Featured in American Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display: block; border: 0px;\" title=\"American Printer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Email-Promotions\/2011\/July\/27\/images\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"American Printer\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Changing With the Times<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ross Avedissian, CEO of <a title=\"ColorFX, Inc. Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ColorFX<\/span><\/a> Inc. (Sun Valley, CA), founded the family-operated company 16 years ago to cater strictly to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"ColorFX Wholesale and Trade Printing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">wholesale trade printing<\/span><\/a><\/span> market. \u201cWe have a strong commitment to providing excellent customer service, and treat all of our customers like they are a priority.\u201d Color FX focuses on providing quick turnarounds and competitive prices for commercial printers. The 25,000-sq.-ft. facility recently added a Xerox iGen4 digital press to complement its Komori LS 40 offset press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDue to changes within the industry, we no longer focus primarily on large-volume orders, but rather accommodate our client\u2019s needs by fulfilling both large and small orders,\u201d says Avedissian. \u201c[Installing the iGen4] has allowed us to meet this change in the industry head on, because it redefines the standards of printing,\u201d he says. \u201cColor consistency and predictability is critical to my customers, and it allows us to stand out because repeat jobs will always look the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The company offers a range of print services from general commercial work to custom printing, including the design of custom dielines and folding cartons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhat surprises our trade partners about our business is that we truly care about quality,\u201d says Avedissian. \u201cThis is the culture of excellence that causes each member of our staff to be proud of identifying themselves as a printer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The company\u2019s sales support team is led by a general manager who has been with the company for more than 15 years. \u201cWe have worked extremely hard over the years to develop a great relationship with our clients,\u201d says Avedissian, \u201cand we continue to expand our client base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Avedissian\u2019s son, Arby, is head of production. He trains his staff to have a strong work ethic, treat one another like family and work as an efficient and functional team. \u201cThey are proud of what they do every day, and no job is too small for them,\u201d he boasts. \u201cAs a company, we are proud to be the latest generation of a centuries-old craft, but we are now catering to a new business model of printing, which is Internet based.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In recent years, ColorFX has leveraged its website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.colorfxweb.com<\/span><\/a>) as a sales tool. \u201cWe have created a user-friendly website where customers can log in to get free product and shipping prices, submit orders, upload files, pay online and track their order status,\u201d he says. The site contains a template library and helpful links.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Developing Relationships<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Color FX treats each commercial print client individually. \u201cEvery client has different priorities, such as time, price and quality,\u201d says Avedissian. \u201cIt is our job to cater to each client\u2019s individual needs and make their priority our priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By partnering with customers, ColorFX aims to be personally involved in helping them serve the end user. Recently, the company conducted a survey of all its customers, which garnered a 25% response. According to Avedissian, the shop earned a 100% rating for production quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When new technologies or methods present opportunities for ColorFX, Avedissian embraces a strategy to put his customers first. At first glance, anything that reduces print costs can seem like a windfall. He offers this example: \u201cFor good reason, buyers of trade printing became excited about dramatic and sweeping decreases in prices as a result of ganging print jobs together.\u201d It brought prices down and allowed his customers to increase their profits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cUnfortunately, in the process, the end user became neglected regarding unusual sizes or quantity requirements that didn\u2019t align with established gang-run choices,\u201d Avedissian explains. \u201cIf the client needs 3,000, they obviously can\u2019t buy 2,500. And 5,000 leaves them with 2,000 unwanted, unneeded pieces. This is not particularly ecological, either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Forcing customers to choose from a limited range of gang-run options just didn\u2019t make good business sense. \u201cThey often hear, \u2018It\u2019s really going to cost you if you don\u2019t choose from the available options,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cLike most other printers, we got caught up in that rat race, and we quickly saw the customer\u2019s real needs being ignored. If the customer wants 6,250 printed at a non-standard size to make their piece unusual, interesting or more effective, they shouldn\u2019t be price penalized.\u201d He decided that they wouldn\u2019t be, on jobs produced at ColorFX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy,\u201d Avedissian explains, \u201cbut our online system allows instant quotations on any quantity, size or shape imaginable and will lead the way to true satisfaction for end users.\u201d Without size or quantity restrictions, the company is able to both cut waste and allow for creativity, proving the customer comes first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Printers To The Trade\" href=\"http:\/\/americanprinter.com\/small-commercial-printers\/printing_trade_0711\/\">Click Here to Read the Full Article in American Printer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing With the Times Ross Avedissian, CEO of ColorFX Inc. (Sun Valley, CA), founded the family-operated company 16 years ago to cater strictly to the wholesale trade printing market. \u201cWe have a strong commitment to providing excellent customer service, and treat all of our customers like they are a priority.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,19],"tags":[33,16,330],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorfx-inc","category-colorfx-news","category-press-releases","tag-american-printer","tag-colorfx","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorfxweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}