7 Best Printing Services in Singapore (October 2026)

Four things worth understanding before you brief anyone.

• Quantity does almost all the work. On Gogoprint economy name cards the published ladder runs S$6.39 for 100, S$20.03 for 500, S$39.13 for 1,000, S$96.14 for 5,000 and S$144.43 for 10,000. Per card that is 6.4 cents down to 1.4 cents. If you are ordering 100 cards because 500 sounds extravagant, you are saving about fourteen dollars and paying five times as much per card.
• Digital versus offset is the reason for that curve. Digital printing has no plate to make, so a run of 50 costs roughly fifty times a run of one. Offset needs plates and makeready before a single sheet comes off, and that fixed cost spreads across the run, so the unit price keeps falling the longer it goes. Short runs and variable data go digital. Long runs and exact colour go offset.
• Turnaround is priced separately, and it runs on a clock. Gogoprint quotes an 11am cutoff for same-day name card delivery by 6pm. Ontimeprint takes same-day orders until 10am. ExpressPrint starts same-day production on orders in before 3pm. These are morning deadlines, not a promise that today means today whenever you click.
• GST is 9 percent, and not every printer charges it. A business only has to register for GST once its taxable turnover passes S$1 million, so smaller shops legitimately quote without it. Kiasu Print displays a no-GST notice. On a S$2,000 print bill that is S$180. If your own company is GST-registered the advantage mostly disappears, because you would have claimed that input tax back anyway.

One more that costs people real money: check the artwork specification before you send. Bleed of 3mm, a safe margin inside the trim, CMYK not RGB, fonts outlined or embedded, and images at 300dpi. Every printer on this page publishes its own template. Download it. A reprint costs the whole job again, and no printer will absorb it when the file was wrong on arrival.

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Less than most people expect, and the price per card falls sharply with quantity. Gogoprint publishes economy name cards at S$6.39 for 100, S$20.03 for 500, S$39.13 for 1,000, S$96.14 for 5,000 and S$144.43 for 10,000. That is 6.4 cents a card at the smallest run and 1.4 cents at the largest.

Premium stocks, soft-touch lamination, rounded corners, spot UV and specialty papers push that up, and a genuinely luxurious card on heavy cotton stock with letterpress or foil is a different product at a different price. But for a normal double-sided card on 310g art card, the numbers above are the market.

The practical advice is to order 500 rather than 100. The absolute saving on the smaller run is about fourteen dollars, and you pay five times as much per card for the privilege. Order 5,000 only if you are confident your title, number and address will still be right in two years.

Digital printing puts toner or ink directly onto the sheet with no physical plates, so there is no setup cost. Print one sheet or fifty and the cost per sheet is broadly the same. That makes it the right choice for short runs, quick turnarounds and anything with variable data such as personalised names or numbering.

Offset printing transfers ink from plates to a rubber blanket to the sheet. Making the plates and getting the press up to colour costs money before the first usable sheet exists, but once running, offset is fast and cheap per unit and holds colour more precisely across a long run. It also opens up Pantone spot colours, which digital approximates rather than matches.

The crossover point varies by job and by press, but the shape is consistent: short runs go digital, long runs go offset, and exact brand colour goes offset. You rarely have to choose yourself, because a printer quoting a large run will already be quoting offset. It is worth understanding because it explains why 5,000 cards cost fifteen times what 100 do rather than fifty times.

Same-day is real, but it runs on a morning cutoff and it applies to a limited product list. Gogoprint quotes 11am for same-day name card delivery by 6pm. Ontimeprint takes same-day orders until 10am. ExpressPrint starts same-day production on orders placed before 3pm, which is the most generous window here.

Three things reliably break a rush job, and none of them are the printer. An artwork file without bleed that has to go back to your designer. A payment that clears after the cutoff. And an approval sitting in the inbox of someone who is in a meeting. Have the file checked, the payment ready and the approver on standby before you place the order.

For anything with finishing, folding, binding or lamination, assume next-day at the earliest regardless of what the cutoff says. Finishing happens after printing, and it is usually the step that decides the schedule.

For a standard job where you want to know the price without asking, Gogoprint. The published ladder from S$6.39 to S$144.43 is the most useful thing any printer in this market puts on a page. For a job spanning several formats, or where you want a guarantee in writing, ExpressPrint and its 3pm cutoff.

When the date genuinely cannot move, Ontimeprint, and place the order before 10am. For a new company that needs stamps, seals and a first card run, Kiasu Print, where the quote does not carry 9 percent GST. For an exhibition or a roadshow, Pullupstand, and ask about the stand mechanism rather than just the print. For plain express cards, Print City. For a letterbox campaign where somebody needs to own both halves, Alibaba Printing.

The one habit that saves the most money is boring: download the template, check bleed and CMYK, and read the proof as though someone else made it. Printing 1,000 cards costs about forty dollars. Printing them twice costs eighty, plus the week you did not have.

A closing note for the printers themselves. One company on this page publishes a full price ladder and the rest quote on enquiry, and in a category this commoditised the published price wins the job before a phone rings. Buyers comparing at 11pm order from whoever answered the question. If your website is the thing losing you those orders, that is fixable, and it happens to be my day job. Have a look at my web design services in Singapore, or get a quote and I will tell you straight what would help.

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