Printing Company Name Generator
Generate names for your printing business below.
Ashley S.
Branding & Marketing Specialist
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How to Name your Business
5-Tips for Naming your Business
Business Name Ideas
How to name your printing business
Hey, I’m Ashley (Branding Expert) and I’m going to guide you through our four steps to name your printing business. Below you’ll find twenty example names I created in this process and next, I’ll show you how you can create your own. To get started try our printing business name generator above and then scroll below to find the first step in the naming process.
- Flawless Copies
- Perfect Printing
- SprintPrints
- Rapid Copies
- Swift Signs
- We Just Print
- Paper Brought to Life
- Plastics and Prints
- The Ink Family
- Prints by the Minute
- The Copy Masters
- The Dream Printers
- Prints Alive
- Classy Copies
- PrintYourStyle
- Flyers, Signs and Style
- Ink for Hire
- Print Genius
- Signs and Solutions
- Rapid Copies
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#1) Brainstorm your name ideas
Start by brainstorming what words could fit into your business name. In my name ideas, I used words like “Copies”, “Signs”and “Ink”, you can see that while these words can be related to Printing, they also suggest that you can expect a range of related services from this buisiness. Your goal here is to create a list of words or names that come to mind when thinking about your business.
If you’re stuck on words to use, try our business name generator.
Here are my name ideas after brainstorming:
#2) Shortlist your ideas
Once you’ve developed a list of possible names, do an analysis of your ideas. Remove any names that could be hard to remember, spell or speak aloud. Keep names that are brandable, sound great, are memorable and communicate your brand values, product or service to your target audience.
Here’s a quick checklist you can run your ideas through to help shorten your list of name:
- Is the name simple and easy to remember?
- Is the name easy to read and say aloud?
- Is the name different from competitors?
- Does the name convey a relevant meaning?
- Does the name avoid overused words or cliches?
My Shortlist:
Removed Ideas:
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#3) Get some feedback
You’ll now have a list of 3-6 great printing business names and you can start to ask potential customers or people working in the industry for feedback (your target audience). Avoid feedback from family and friends, are more likely to praise all your ideas and they aren’t your customer.
Be sure to ask questions like:
- What first comes to mind when you first hear the name?
- How would you spell it?
With you’re customer feedback you can now ask yourself is the name still relevant? and did it represent your business how you intended?
My customer feedback:
This name brings to mind a high degree of professionalism and accuracy.
This name conveys the idea of a specialist who is dedicated solely to printing.
This name lets us imagine a print firm that turns our dreams into reality.
This name conveys the solidity of a long-established industry expert.
#4) Check It’s available
At this point, it’s good to have at least three great printing business names on your list, in case your any of your names are already taken. You can do a quick Business Name Search online to find out if you’re name is available within your country/state, also be sure to search if the name is also available for Trademark and Domain name Registration.
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Competitor Name Analysis
To help you brainstorm potential business names, let’s take a look at three successful printing businesses and break down why and how they’ve chosen to name their business and why it works for them.
Dependable Letterpress gives us the idea of reliability that is so important in the printing industry. It also has a classic feel to it that could prove attractive to some customers. They have managed to convey a good idea of their business without even mentioning print or printing in their name.
ABC Printing Company is a name that keeps it simple. It lets us know what they do and also give us an insight into a straightforward approach that is hinted at with the use of ABC. It also works as it is nicely memorable.
Kwik Kopy is a business whose name probably divides opinions. Not everyone likes deliberately misspelt words like this. However, there is no denying that it is easy to remember and describes perfectly what people expect to get from them.
1. Do a Competitor Analysis
Doing a competitor analysis as your first step will save you a lot of time in the future, knowing what names to avoid and understanding why and how your competitors business name words for them will help you in forming your own business names. When analyzing competitors think about:
- What business or product values are they conveying in their business name? How does that work for them?
- Is there a trend in how these businesses are naming themselves? It’s best to avoid sounding like “just another one of those businesses”.
- Who does it best? Why does it work and how can I produce a better name?
2. Focus on Naming your Business not Describing it.
A typical pitfall most businesses run into is describing their business name too literally, using overused printing terms like print or printer. A more effective business name should convey to customers your businesses and product values at a deeper level. Try name your business in a way that has a story behind it.
Let’s take for example a real printing business named “Dependable Letterpress”.
Literally, this name let’s us consider this as being a trustworthy place to entrust with our printing jobs. They have also included a vintage feel to the name that helps to bring to mind the image of an old-fashioned printer going about their work with a vintage press.
3. How to make a more memorable name
Creating a memorable business name is the first step in getting into a customers mind and is also a task that’s easier said than done. Your business name should aim to stop a customer in their tracks and give an extra thought on your product among your wave of competitors. Some tips to create a memorable name would be:
- Use rhythmic pronunciation or alliteration (Perfect Print, Classy Copies)
- Try using a word that wouldn’t be relevant when out of context (Ink – an essential part of many printing processes)
- Keep it short and simple.
4. Try purchasing a Brandable business name
Brandable business names are names that are non-sensical but read and are pronounced well. They often use letter patterns of Vowel/Consonant/Vowel as these word structures are typically short, catchy and easy to say and remember. For example, some brandable printing business names could be:
- Printafast
- Costa Copies
- Maxi Printers
You can find a full list of Brandable business names at Domainify.com
5. Avoid combining words just to create a unique name.
Another mistake business owners typically make is creating bad word combinations when they find out that their business name idea is already taken. For example, John names his business Easy Print and finds out it’s already taken. Because he’s already decided this is what he’ll name his business he tries to opt for similar sounding names like Easy to Print, Print It Easy or Easier Printing.
You can see how these ideas are a step backward as they are not catchy, easily pronounceable or memorable. In these situations, we suggest starting from scratch and trying the tips we mentioned previously.
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Words Printing often describes
(“Printing ______”)
You can use these words to create Printing business names like ‘The Copy Room’ and ‘PrintIt Projects’.
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