Print

The IOC can work with you to make your print projects run smoothly.

We can help connect you to creative vendors and review designs and content along the way.

Print strategy

• Assess your project needs
• Advise on how your print materials should coordinate with your website and social media
• Recommend creative vendors, including designers, copywriters, and photographers

Creative process

• Provide objective feedback on design and content
• Advise on MIT brand standards

Production

• Recommend appropriate printers
• Review print specifications to ensure accurate bids

Whether you’re developing an event poster, department overview brochure, or conference program, consider the following best practices when starting a print project.

Things to consider

• Define your audience and the messages you would like to convey.
• Consider how your print project integrates with your department’s website, social media, and other communications collateral.
• Determine who will design and write the piece. Will you need to hire creative vendors?
• Create a schedule that includes ample time for reviews by key stakeholders, as well as time for printing. Shorter print runs can usually be printed digitally, which typically has a quicker turnaround time. Higher quantities of more complex projects may need to be printed offset, which can take longer.

Other resources

MIT branding on your print materials
Learn how to apply the MIT brand on print materials.

MIT Buy2Pay
Order official MIT business cards, letterhead, and other stationery products, place custom orders, access custom departmental catalogs, and download design templates through Fenway Group.

MIT Copytech
Copytech is MIT’s full-service print and copy facility and can also print MIT business cards.

MIT Mail Services
A full-service mail operation that offers folding, inserting, tabbing, addressing, and mailing within and outside the MIT community.

Preferred printers (an MIT certificate is required to see the list)
MIT works with several preferred external printers that can produce nearly any print job.