We have a client who we are doing a brochure for. They asked us if they could they just have the graphic design and artwork because they are going to get the print from an online printing chain whose name you’ll recognise from the reverse of free low quality business cards. I checked out the print offer the client had found and, sure enough on the face of it, it was attractive. So I was interested to come across this expose:
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/10/vistaprint-offers-not-what-the.html
It highlights how a major printing chain is making an apparently 'free' offer that is definitely more mouth than trousers!