Copy Central in Berkeley, CA

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Telephone:	+1 510-848-8649
Website:	www.copycentral.com
Address:	2576 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704 b/t Bowditch St & Barrow Ln Telegraph Ave
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:	390 ftBancroft Way & Telegraph Av 530 ftTelegraph Av & Durant Av 670 ftDurant Av & Telegraph Av

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Local time (Berkeley)	12:43 PM Saturday, July 12, 2025

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Description

Specialties

We do Course READERS right. We make and sell Course Readers. Check our website for more information.

Copy Central’s motto is «Doing it right. .. On time». We strive to live up to this with every printing job we do.

We meet all your business needs from multi-part forms to manuals; from business cards to posters: whatever quantities that you need. We are also experts in the litigation copying as well as in the scanning of documents.

Need color copies? With our expertise and high quality color copier, we can give you the high quality color job that you need.

Need a project done the same day? We have the ability on most jobs to get it back to you the same day if needed.

Email us the job and we will deliver it back to you!

History

Established in 1983.

Many know us as the place to pick up their course reader. We’re proud of the fact that we are a front runner in Berkeley in producing readers that contain approval from all the publishers whose material is included at a rate that is as economical as we can make it.

We also produce readers with covers that reflect the theme of the course. Many instructors choose to take advantage of the option to have a special cover created for their course.

While many of our customers are students, faculty and staff at UC Berkeley, businesses, attorneys, and individuals from all Berkeley and the surrounding areas count on us to provide their business needs.

This is a locally owned and run business which is run by an owner operator who insists on competence and service. It is run with an attitude that a service business should actually give good service.

Come visit us and tell us if you agree.

Meet the Manager

Laura S.

Manager

I have worked with Copy Central for many years. I hope you will visit our store location.

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Tinkddc B.

Place rating: 5
Moraga, CA

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!

Jen W.

Place rating: 5
Richmond, CA

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.

J L.

Place rating: 2
Berkeley, CA

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.

Jash P.

Place rating: 2
La Mirada, CA

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.