Copy Central

Copy Central is A++++. They are fast, provide friendly service at a great price! I have used them for a lot of volunteer work that I do, including handouts, telephone directories, name tags, programs and posters. They do everything! I have been using them for over five years and I have never had a problem with the staff. Laura the manager is great! She is friendly and outgoing and will make sure your project whether it is large or small will be done accurately!

I love Copy Central. I used them for the first time recently when I volunteered last minute to create a program for a symposium my department was organizing. Things were kind of chaotic getting the materials together, and I ended up at Copy Central first thing on a Friday morning, needing 600 copies of a multi-​page booklet (folded and stapled) to be picked up later that day. Not only did they turn it around within hours, they delivered it to my office for (I think) no extra charge *and* have an arrangement with my department to bill directly to them. It made what I thought would be a frantic day a total breeze, both in terms of timing and in terms of working out the money issue. And they were friendly and fast, having me print a copy of my file and proof it on the spot when I dropped off the order, so they could be sure the program would be right. After that encounter, I was in love.
I’ve only had to go there one more time since then, but I recently went in again to print a small (50 copy) run of a color poster. I love that they let you print off their computers for free (Kinko’s charges you by the minute), and they marked down the per-​copy fee. The impression I get is that, the more copies you order, the cheaper the price will be. There was only one guy there that day (it was late afternoon, near the end of the day), and he was friendly and helpful, bustling around efficiently to make sure everyone was being helped and knew how to do what they needed to do. It was worlds away from my consistently awful experiences at Kinko’s.

I used to go to this Copy Central for 11×17 and large format prints, but through my time at Berkeley, I’ve discovered there’s better.
B&W 24×36 prints here are around 7 or 8 dollars whereas down the street at Inkstone, they’re only around 4 or 5 dollars.
Colored 24×36 plots here are something absolutely ridiculous like 30 or 40 dollars whereas they’re $ 20 at Inkstone.
The people here are also quite unhelpful and unknowledgeable about the equipment. If you have to print something before class, come here early, because you’ll have to sit and fiddle with the equipment by yourself just to print.

NOTE: COPY CENTRAL ON SOUTH SIDE HAS A NEW LOCATION!!! They’ve downsized and are two doors down (you need to pass the julie’s healthy café toward Bowditch)
Convenience: Excellent. It is literally across the steps that take you to Hearst Annex and Hearst Gym.
Service: Okay. They do direct you to the back to pick up your reader. This is no clear line where you’re supposed to line up.
Price: PRICEY. Seriously, a reader that is at most ½ an inch thick is already $ 30?! My reader that is 1,000+ pages was around that price elsewhere! –_​–
Bottom line: This place is okay for last minute copies, but you can go somewhere more affordable services.