Kolossos Printing

They have the best rates in town for scanning black and white documents. They called me when my job was completed and have been nothing but kind and professional throughout the process. And I had a hard job :)

We were in town for our mom’s memorial, which we had been planning from out of town. We ordered our programs online from a company that we had used in the past. When the programs arrived the day before the service, they were all wrong. We found Kolossos via an online search and spoke to Kathy… who was a miracle worker. We sent her our pdf of the program and she had a proof ready for us within the hour. She then made sure that our programs were complete and ready for pickup the next morning. The quality and customer service was amazing and Kathy was so kind. We are forever grateful that we called that day!

If you are looking for a place with quality materials, professional-​grade machines, and knowledgeable designers, this is NOT that place.
Looking to print wedding invites locally for a client of mine, I decided to give Kolossos Printing a try, after a few recommendations from a few of my artist friends.
What a nightmare! I was able to consult with their designer who sets the files up to print. The designer was using the Adobe Creative Suite, and clearly had no idea how to run the programs. That was certainly a little disconcerting.
We got the tester printed on the same paper and printer the finals would have been printed on. They were cheap feeling and low quality; you would be better off buying your own cheap printer and some card stock from Walmart. Seriously. Their best paper was flimsy and the colors came out mottled and flat. I asked, repeatedly, if they had any other paper options. I was assured that this was the best they had, and of course, how great they thought it looked.
They also did a price quote. $ 317 for 300 5×7 double-​sided color invites, which comes to $ 1.06 per invite and no extras. That would be a fair price if the product was quality, but alas, I would say it was ridiculous for what they offer.
We ended up going with an online print company (
), which charged $ 77 total ($ 0.25 each). I would say it was for the exact same product, but that price included upgrading to a fancy, double-​sided 14 pt. semi-​gloss, paper. They turned out AMAZING. The paper felt sturdy yet soft, and the picture and text was incredibly crisp.
I’m super disappointed that Kolossos couldn’t offer the same professional-​grade product that I could get online for a quarter of the price.

I’ve shipped a few packages here and I always felt a bit fleeced on the shipping costs. After the last time I shipped a package here, the price just didn’t sit well with me. It was way higher than I anticipated. I shipped it there via fedex and so afterwards I punched up the weight and dimensions myself on the fedex site, and discovered that I was charged more than the online fedex quote. I’ve done fedex quotes online before and compared them to the actual shipping cost and sometimes it’s off by $ 3 or so. However the last box I shipped with kolossos was off by $ 18. I felt a bit ripped off, I didn’t even get a fedex slip, just some ambiguous receipt with no itemization, just a total and no tracking number. I was told when I asked, the tracking was on the receipt they handed me, but apparently not. Maybe their other services are ok, but I would not recommend using this place to do shipping.

These guys are great, after spending almost two hours with their competitor, (rhymes with ‘dinkos’) trying to make two sided flyer line up properly, I was told they couldn’t do it. After 5 minutes in Kolossos, they aligned the flyer and gave me the maximum amount of flyers that fit with my budget. I don’t know why I didn’t just go here in the first place. To top it off they did it right there on the spot. Local, professional, fast and most importantly friendly.