Waimea Instant Printing

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We've been in the printing business since 1990!

  • Hills Above Waimea
  • Waimea Office Center

    In the Waimea Office Center, copies are still only a dime!

  • Ikua Purdy Statue

    No Bull! Copies are still a dime.

  • Mauna Kea
  • Mauna Kea

For over 30 years, Waimea Instant Printing has been fully committed to serving our community with the highest standards of performance and professional integrity, both in and out of our printing shop. We compliment our profession by keeping up to date with the latest high tech equipment the industry has to offer.

As a business in a small community, we’ve grown by creating long-term relationships with our customers, and we are famous for going the extra mile for our “friends”. We do not simply print your material, we prefer to collaborate with you. Here at Waimea Instant Printing, we listen to your goals and vision, then provide advice about the best ways to utilize our printing resources in order to maximize your marketing impact on your customers.

We provide service, high quality products, and a pleasant experience at a highly competitive price. We understand what it is like to run a business and we want to help. When you work with us, you do not simply get a printer to copy your materials, you gain a partner who wants to see you succeed in your business. We understand that when you win, we win too!

We know how to effectively design publications to reach your target audience or promote your event. Whatever your publication needs, should it be postcards, posters, brochures, and programs, we can create and design the communication vehicle you need. No matter how large or small your project or budget, we want to help you make a great impression. Contact us to find out how we can help with your next project.

WAIMEA OFFICE CENTER

We are NOT in the KTA Center, but next to the Shell Station across the highway from the Waimea School Gym

65-1206 Mamalahoa Hwy.
Bldg 1 Ste. 8
P.O. Box 1328
Kamuela, HI. 96743

(808) 885-6161
wip@kamuela.com
Monday/Friday 9 to 5


What Makes Waimea Instant Printing Different?

  • Now Offering LARGE FORMAT PRINTING & SCANNING

  • Personal Service; Customer Care

  • Over 30 years of print & design experience

  • Locally owned and operated

  • Comprehensive print services

  • Free, no-obligation quotes

  • Quick turn-around times

  • Free, on-location, expert consultation

  • Bindery & folding, desktop publishing, scanning

  • 80/100 various colors, weights, sizes, & papers in stock

  • Up to date equipment
Imagerunner
Untilizing Canon Imagerunner Advance C7570iii

Waimea Instant Printing

Here at Waimea Instant Printing, we have worked with hundreds of small, medium and large businesses to turn their promotional projects into printed reality.

At Waimea Instant Printing, we’re driven to do a good job because we care about doing a good job. Our goal is to provide personalized service; the flexibility to meet your requirements; and always a great finished product. The bottom line is that if you need something printed, we’ll go out of our way to make sure it happens. Whatever your needs, call us first! We care about every customer and every print job, and we’ll spend as much time as is needed to ensure that you get what you expect: satisfaction every single time.

We assist our customers with every aspect of design – from creating original pieces to preparing your design to print as you envisioned it and everything in between. Give us an idea of what you want to create and we can help you get it there. If you already have the design created, we can easily convert it into printed material that will accomplish your goals. We have separated ourselves in an increasingly competitive industry through our steadfast commitment to grow our customer base and improve our company. We have always been known for our honesty, trust, and integrity. We pride ourselves on our craftsmanship, and take accountability for it. Our values, morals, and ethics have provided us with invaluable business relationships and with great customers who love working with us. We always take an innovative approach to getting jobs produced. There is a short chain of command, and a commitment to our customers through responsiveness to their needs and the industry trends.

Neil

Neil Morriss grew up in Waimea and graduated from Hawaii Preparatory Academy in 1972. He attended Colby College and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1976. His first career was in banking where he was a loan officer with the Indian Head National Bank in Nashua and Concord New Hampshire. In 1980 he returned to Hawaii to run 550 acres of family owned macadamia nut orchard in South Kona. When the market for macnuts peaked in 1987 the orchard was sold. In 1988 Neil started NMI Super Office which offered desktop publishing and database services and copying. The first big job was printing the employee manuals for the opening of the Hyatt Waikoloa Beach Hotel. (The manuals had been printed but they were still on a boat) In 1995 Neil changed the name of the business to Waimea Instant Printing to better reflect the evolution of the business.

Neil Morriss
Matthew Pearce

Matthew

Matthew Pearce grew up in California and was a flight software programmer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the 1980s. In 1990 Matthew moved to Waimea and began offering layout, design and typesetting services. He is the current owner of the Waimea Gazette.

What We Do

Here at Waimea Instant Printing, we cater to Small, Medium and Large business and organizations who realize the benefit and security of doing business with a competent, local printing company to produce all of their marketing materials. From restaurant menus to flyers, business cards to resumes, and catalogs to promotional products, we do our best to stay on top of all market trends and offer those services to our clients at a price that can not be beat!

We have over 20 years of experience working with corporate clients and are ready to provide you with ideas and images that drive your printed message to potential clients. Printing can be done on various types, colors, weights and paper sizes, and specialty papers. We maintain a variety of 80/100 different papers in stock. We also offer paper products for sale. If you do not see a service or product you need listed, please ask us.

If there is a specific deadline or time frame you need to meet, let us know. We will do our best to meet that deadline. Short runs of digital printing can be done quickly, many times while you wait. Design and editing generally require one to two days, although some jobs turn around faster. If other production processes are involved in your publication such as trimming, binding, or during busy periods, additional time may be needed. We are here to help you. Design and creative services are charged based on complexity and time spent on completing the project. Our pricing is reasonable and competitive. You can trust that Waimea Instant Printing will deliver the highest quality service & printing of your project from start to finish.

Design:
Wide range of fonts and clip art, 20+ years experience

Printing Services/Finishes:
High quality color copies, black & white copies, enlargements & reductions, folding, stapling, 3 hole drill, scan to PDF

In Stock Specialty Paper:
80/100 various types, colors, weights & sizes, & specialty papers in stock

Custom Printed Products:
Booklets, posters, postcards, rack cards, flyers, catalogs, brochures, newsletters, menus, certificates, calendars

Business Cards:
Wide variety of cardstock, fonts and clip art

Labels & Forms:
Consecutive numbered, custom, mailing, weather resistant, forms, carbonless forms

Announcements:
Fold-overs, cards, matching envelopes, invitations, cards & envelopes, thank you cards

Bindery:
Folding, 3 hole drilling, padding, stapling, spiral binding

Large Format Printing & Scanning
24" x ? printing, 36" x ? scanning

Our customers

  • Just an example of businesses we've helped
A few of our clients

Where We Are

Visit us at the
WAIMEA OFFICE CENTER, 65-1206 Mamalahoa Hwy, Building 1 Suite 8 in Kamuela.
Next to the Shell Station at the center of town, across the street from Waimea School Gym.
Get directions through Google maps.
(We're not in KTA center as google states, map is right, their text is wrong)

google maps location of Waimea Instant Printing

What would you like to print?

We offer complete design services for your projects, but if you wish to diy...

How to Prepare Your File For Printing

The first thing to do is determine the final size of your piece. Some common sizes:

business cards 3.5" x 2"
rack cards  4” x 9”
brochures   3.66” x 8.5”
   (11”x8.5” folded in three)
newsletters  8.5” x 11”
   (17”x11” folded in half)

Figuring out layout

The next step is to decide whether you want color or image right to the edge of the piece—Bleed. Adding a bleed means adding 0.1" to the final dimensions of your artwork. So if your final size is 3.5" x 2" then your bleed size should be 3.6" x 2.1".

Any text or important information should be well away (3/16” inch) from the edge of your piece (Live Area). Likewise, text or important images should be well away from folds.

see illustration

Getting the color right

Once you've got the sizing and layout figured out, make sure that you change the color mode of your images from RGB to CMYK. The colors you see on the screen are usually not going to match exactly what is printed, but by switching color mode your computer can better display what the final printed piece will look like.

A business card with bleed

A brochure with bleed

 

Online Design Software

Canva has a lot of terrific templates

BeFunky is a lot of fun

Business Card Maker is easy to use

Adobe Spark is free to use (not often that adobe allows free anything)

 

Printing from your files

When you send us files, they should be:

for images

jpg or tif

Text layers must be rendered or converted to curves. Please be aware that high jpg or tiff compression results in a degraded image and/or blurry text - color and grayscale images should be at least 200dpi with little or no compression specified (largest file size)

Complex page layouts

PDF

If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, we suggest you set “Job Options” to “Print Optimized”.
If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat, there is a free pdf writer available at Cute (subject to change, look for “Free Writer”). Download the installation package and run both the “Converter” and the “Writer” installers. You should now have “Cute PDF Writer” installed as one of your printers: simply print from your program to create your document to this writer and save the resulting pdf.

Files under 10Mb may be emailed to wip, files larger must be brought in on a usb drive or sent through our dropbox at YouSendIt

Files brought in are processed in a first-come first-served basis, files emailed may be subject to order confirmation before printing so include your phone number with the email attachment.