Piedmont Copy

Amir is so helpful and even if I give him a last minute project he always accommodates with a smile. Piedmont Copy is the best kept secret in Berkeley.

My favorite copy/​print shop. Always helpful and affordable. drawback= $ 10 min purchase for credit cards.

This place is fantastic. Amazing service, never crowded, and cheapest spot in town. Our go-​to for all copy jobs.

Credit where it’s due: Amir is FANTASTIC.
I’ve just had my first book published and needed postcards printed for general marketing and sending to media outlets. I also ordered posters — paper, laminated and mounted. Amir showed a keen eye for detail, quoted *very* competitively and turned them around quickly. He took time and patience to ensure I was absolutely happy with each aspect of the samples.
I picked them up today, and I am *delighted*. They are so crisp and professional.
I highly recommend Piedmont Copy.
Alicia Young
Journalist & Author, «The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Grace»
WINNER, 2013 NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL: Best New Self Help/​How To
GOLD MEDAL, 2013 LIVING NOW AWARDS.

As you can probably tell, I don’t like this place. They make up prices for their printing and always overcharge you. I printed 2 black and white copies and they told me I had to pay $ 1.00 instead of 15 cents a copy as advertised. They said how I used their computer to print and had to charge me for the 10 seconds I was on the computer to hit print. There is NO other way to print other than using their computers (no direct USB connection to the printer) and I didn’t even use the internet. I reluctantly paid and unfortunately had to come back the other day to print 1 more black and white copy. Again, they charged me $ 1 when it should have been 15 cents and this time told me they have a minimum charge of $ 1.00, which is not listed anywhere of course.
When I asked about this mysterious «minimum» the owner and his son just looked at me and pointed while speaking in a foreign language and then just told me tough luck.
Awful customer service, avoid this place like the plague.

If you need to have a book binding cut, DO NOT come here. Brought a heavy and expensive law school textbook here to have the binding cut and these clowns messed it up. They cut off way too much of the left margin and when they punched the holes, the holes were actually in the text. Completely unacceptable, shoddy work and no apology. AVOID AVOID AVOID!

Based on Unilocal reviews, even though Piedmont Copy is 3 blocks from me, I wanted to go to CopyGrafik because everyone seems to love that place. But at 8:30 a.m., a totally reasonable time to want to make copies for a presentation, CopyGrafik still wasn’t open. So I wound up going around the corner to Piedmont Copy anyway and had a really nice experience. This place is a little messy inside (a bit off-​putting), and I’m not totally sure how it stays in business because it isn’t very crowded, but the guy working was incredibly nice and responsive and did my project exactly to my specifications, ASAP, and for less than I anticipated. I really hope they do well for themselves, and I will be going back for sure. (They just need to clean up inside a bit.)

Piedmont copy on College Avenue (near Ashby) did my work quickly and for less than I expected. Thanks!

The customer is never right. Goes under Piedmont copy name.

OK, this is it! My 700^th review on Unilocal — and i have chosen a place that may not even be in business anymore.
When I worked here (yes-sir-ee)it was called Copy-​Mat and was owned by CPI Photo Finishing. The College Avenue CopyMat in the mid nineties was a burgeoning hot-​bed of teachers, students and UC Berkeley community residents either making their own copies or having us make them for you.
They offered Color (for a decent price) and black & white copying, binding, finishing and limited computer imaging services.
I cut my teeth while learning to manage CopyMat stores and had some good and not-​so-​good times while working here.
Mostly I learned alot about the Elmwood district and loved eating at Gordo Tacqueria across the street. I also befriended Ula & Kati who owned the adjacent Saksi for Hair salon (now sold and renamed.). They taught me much about the world of beauty and salon operations which cam into practice much later when I owned my on spa in NYC.
I owe alot of memories to Berkeley, and CopyMat (now Copy Central.).
And thus concludes my 700^th Unilocal review.