“Route 1 Print used to good at one point when I first started using them 5 yers ago but for the past 2.5 years a very awful and poor service overall. They always let you know on the day if they cant deliver your order and there is nothing you can do to then to let down your own clients. If you rely on R1 Print print and have no other choice then I'd say carry on with the stress but they can't be trusted on a professional or business level to deliver.”
“Ordered 1week before an event
Artwork rejected
Re-uploaded
Still rejected
Spoke to advisor
Sent artwork on email provided
Ensured I was going to receive in time
Never received my order
Called and cancelled order
Never using again”
“Always an excellent price, faster than expected delivery and 100% quality. I've been dealing with these guys for years, and never had any problems. A five star company”
“I use 3 print houses for 90% of my client work and typically choose which one depending on the needs for high quality and/or reliability.
Route1 are cheap, perfectly acceptable quality but terribly, terribly unreliable for anything time critical.
Time after time after time orders are late. The famous "sorry we have had production issues" email is far too frequent.
But the real problem is the fact you get no communication about this at all and are left chasing customer services 24/7 for a new delivery date and all they say is "we can't give you one'.
If you really press you may get a promise that it will ship by a certain date but that will also fail to materialise and they then shut up shop and refuse to give you ANY information on a new date, leaving you to have to cancel the order, apologies to the client and find a re-print elsewhere. They really don't give a hoot.
We've removed Route1 from our holy trinity of printers and hope they can improve their communication in the future so we can return. We understand production issues happen from time to time, but the sheer unwillingness or inability to rectify production issues with a commitment to a new delivery date minimise delays is simply not workable.
Shrugging your shoulders when things go wrong is a completely unacceptable way to deal with issues.
They either don't care or understand what an embarrassment it is for a design agency to be constantly letting their clients down with broken print promises caused by Route 1 Print's unreliability.”
“If you are planning to order from this company, I will give you the best advise you will ever get "don't do it" not worth the hassle. Deadlines not met, excuses made, bad customer service and slow response.
Not worth it at all, honestly.”
