AP Printing Corporation

This is the WORST place that I’ve been to get something printed. They DO NOT stand behind their work, our wedding invitation are NOT perfect and they are not willing to fix their mistake. The prints that we got have marks on them and when I told them, the owner even say the FXXX word. How professional ??? The amount they charge us are not cheap compare to others, which is ok. But I did NOT expect the shitty service from a place like this. DO NOT GO TO THEM TO PRINT YOUR WEDDING INVITATION OR ANYTHING ELSE

I came here for Chinese wedding invitations and I only needed a few for my family. The minimum varies depending on the invitation type, generally around 35 invites but I was able to get 30 for the style I chose. Prices are good considering it cost me about $ 3/​invitation. That’s not bad at all and comparable to the ones I tried to print and make on my own. They also have tons of albums with samples for you to look at.
I chose the traditional Chinese red and gold invites with 2 layers. It comes with pretty red envelopes and they give you a glue stick to assemble it yourself. Although the sample I looked at came in pink, I asked if they had it in red and they did. So don’t be afraid to ask for variations in their samples.
Despite other reviews about the customer service I didn’t have a problem at all. They were very helpful and responded to emails quickly. The Chinese invitations have a fill-​in the blank template so it was easy to fill in (as long as you know someone to help write in Chinese).

Recently ordered some items from here. The lady definitely helped me, TONS! People are usually in the back office, so when you stop by, just peep your head behind the swinging doors. They let me do my own thing on looking at invites, then when I was ready, they helped me with wording and everything! They have templates for languages (which makes it easier), they you can consider customizing to your hearts desire. I had a few drama with the invitations, but they were happy to help me. Quick service and delivered on time.

My fiancé and I came here to get our wedding invitation card. We wanted something that can be printed on off-​white/​cream base with red lettering, and can also print in Chinese. We also wanted a location in the south bay since we both work there and do not want to take frequent trips to San Francisco. That eliminates quite a few places. We came here on a weekend and May was extremely patient and helpful. We ultimately went for a cream color tri-​fold with burgundy lettering. Prices were pretty decent and the cards arrived on time (2 weeks since ordered, with a proof-​reading right in the middle). This place can get pretty packed during weekend so come at the beginning or near the end of the day. The one star gets knocked off because it feels like they are short-​staffed during peaks.

Our wedding invites are beautiful — better than I could have hoped!
We had very limited options on the East Coast for a Viet/​English wedding invitation. I found one that I liked on their website, called them to discuss the order, submitted my order with the necessary wedding date information and even asked for a separate bible quote to be added to the invite; I left the stylistic options up to them, i.e. font, paper color.
They were in constant communication with me, even calling me, and responding to my calls on the weekends. They even bent over backwards to rush my order, at no extra charge. Chi Linh and Chi Kim were so nice and helpful; we could not have asked for a more beautiful product, and for such a reasonable price! If we went with any typical wedding invitation boutique, it would have cost us three times as much and I’m not sure I would have been as happy with the final product.
Bottom line, know what you want and be sure to clearly communicate it. The owners will work with you to make sure you are happy with your order and that you get it when you need it.

So to start, we needed invitations which included Chinese/​Vietnamese/​English. There are many options in the area and also Tons of options in San Francisco, but we went to AP printing because of proximity and wanted someplace that we can make sure that constant contact is possible.
Our first visit was a bit off-​putting because we weren’t greeted by anyone in the shop– you really have to be verbal because the employees may or may not approach you depending on if you are there to just browse (there are a TON of binders of wedding invitations) or pick up. Initially we picked a style and colors and then gave a number we needed and were given a quote and discount. A week later we changed the style so the quote changed to be more expensive because we added more inserts but May worked with us to lower the price by changing the type of inserts and we still got a discount so it worked out to be very close to the original quote :) May and Linda were very patient when working with us to decide on colors and designs, and most importantly not trying to make a decision For us!
We were contacted constantly via email and phone to check, double check, and triple check proofs. There is no Go-​Ahead until you give the OK, and we worked with Linda and May who were both very patient and meticulous with detail and almost OCD with making sure that everything was perfect for the invitation.
Just picked up my wedding invitations from here and i gotta say, Well Done AP printing! Albeit the putting together, I’m really happy with the quality of the cards and the efficiency of service. I was urged to double check the count and quality of envelopes/​announcements/​inserts/​rsvp cards. At first the quote the price is off-​putting but it is worth it in the end because of proximity, quality, and the fact that they stand behind their products.

Nightmare of a place to work with. Brace yourself, this will be a long review (mostly a rant).
I came early in November to get a price quote on 2 invitations we liked. May was the one who helped us. Came back 2 months later and she quotes me $ 60 more than the original price. I understand prices can vary as time goes on but she had absolutely no explanation as to why it was now $ 60 more. First she tells me the 2 invitations I looked at were similar in price, then she couldn’t come up with a reason why it costs more, then she says maybe the one I chose is pricier than the other. You sure know how to confuse a girl, May.
Not only that, she goes to the back and magically I’ve been given a «special discount» of $ 34.
Communication is seriously lacking here. They promised my invitations would be ready 3 weeks later. I hear nothing from them until that 3^rd week, two days before I am supposed to pick it up. They called to ask for my email to send the proofs. Why are you asking me now?
The next week (Saturday), I call to ask if I can pick it up. The woman says she couldn’t find anything in my or my fiancé’s name. She tells us she’ll call us back because she’s too BUSY. Well, she doesn’t call us back and when I call her, she says once again that she’s too BUSY to help us right now. …O.M.Gosh never tell a paying customer you’re too busy to help them.
To their credit, they do call me during the week to discuss my proofs. I ask if it’ll be ready by next week and she says I could probably pick it up. Next Saturday comes, I call in, and once again they are confused about my invitations. The lady on the line has no idea what’s going on. She asks me who I talked to, my fiancé’s name, am I sure the proofs were finalized…
Finally, 2 weeks later I am able to pick it up. The color of the font wasn’t even olive green like we asked but whatever, it didn’t look too bad. Now my fiancé and I have to sit down and assemble the darn thing together. Yep, paid all that money to tie the bow on and assemble the invitations yourself.
Summary:
1. Make sure you’re not getting overcharged! Prices should be reasonable and not made up as you go!
2. Make sure they have your info down correctly so you can look at your proofs ahead of time.
I promise I’m not just being a bridezilla, but they are making it really easy for me to be one!
Overall, I do like how my invitations turned out. The Vietnamese/​English translation was great. It was the customer service that really blew it for me. To the management: if you want your business to have more than 3 stars, show that you value your customers, make them feel important, and take the time to pay attention to detail!

Yep, our invitations turned out like the bomb dot com. Would recommend. May is a fantastic person to work with!

I live in PA and wanted to customize my own invitations in 2 languages. The staff at AP Printing was very accommodating and quick to reply to my emails. I had numerous changes to my invitations and they never hesitate to send me proofs of the changes I made. Choosing the kind of paper was a challenge for me since I couldn’t see it in person. The staff sent me numerous pictures and even had all papers side-​by-​side for me to compare. When the invitations arrived, it was exactly what I expected. I was very pleased with my invitations and the service they provided. Compared to the printing places where I live, AP Printing provided more options and was much more affordable. Overall I had a great experience with them. Brides who need Vietnamese, Chinese, and English invitations, please consider this place! The website was also very user friendly. I am so happy that I found this place and my invitations are beautiful! Thank you AP Printing!!!

This place is very helpful. Even you have the original artwork not up to par, they help make it workable in very refined format and make it actually much better than what was submitted at the beginning. The price is very reasonable. I know since I have done many orders for my clients past 7years and they are highly recommended by our designers. Thank you for wonderful job! Yy

Thank goodness for AP Printing!
We needed to have three languages on our wedding invitations (Chinese, Vietnamese, and English), and they delivered beautifully. I discovered them on Google and found that they had the only website that allows you to browse, select, personalize, and order invitations in the languages I needed. After submitting my choices on their website, I was emailed the next business day with an estimate and further instructions to place an order. I exchanged multiple emails and phone calls with the ladies at AP discussing all of the details until the final draft was perfect. Their responses were always timely, usually the same day or the day after. I was contacted when the invitations were ready (less than 2 weeks after finalization for 100 invites) and only had to stop by their office once for pickup (they also will ship to you for additional charges). I suppose I could have stopped by sooner before they printed to check on the paper types and exact coloration, but I was quite impress and happy with the final product. I also went back to them for my thank you cards. They have the slotted cards for 4×6 photos that were a hit with both of my traditional and hipster guests because of the individualized personalization.

I swear, being bi-​cultural/​bi-​lingual and planning a wedding just means that everything costs twice as much! My partner and I got our reception invites printed out in English, but wanted to at least have our ceremony invites to be in English and Vietnamese. After googling printing services, I ran across AP printing.
Honestly this place has a ton of samples and have binders upon binders of mock invitations. I feel like you shouldn’t come here unless you have a general sense of what you want. This place is incredibly overwhelming. My partner and I already had an idea of the size, wording, and style of invites that we wanted so the process wasn’t too bad.
We ended up picking a traditional Vietnamese invitation and realized that the customization was endless. You have to choose the types of paper, ink color, ink texture, type of border, fonts… etc. After we customized everything, we put down a deposit and emailed the exact text that we wanted a few days later.
There were some hiccups in the process of getting the final product. After I sent the text to them, I didn’t hear back about a proof for 2 weeks. When I contacted them again, I was told that the proof had been completed but I just didn’t get them. The same thing happened for the final printing. Nobody told me they were done until I contacted them. It wasn’t big deal for me personally because I wasn’t in a rush, but if you’re on a tight time line you should be in contact with the store often.
The final product came out better than I expected! The print and paper quality is very good and I am pleased with it. Can’t wait to send them out!
The store is also very hidden, there’s a café/​restaurant on the street side if that helps.

Despite some of the bad reviews on Unilocal,I decided to come here for my wedding invitations. I was greeted immediately and they gave me binders of sample to shift through. They have so many samples, anything and everything you can think of they will have it here. It was also the cheapest one compared to all the other printing companies I’ve looked at. I even went to Chinatown and this was still by far the cheapest for the card I wanted.
I chose the 3 layered (red, metallic gold and metallic cream) tri-​fold pamphlet style since I needed the invitations in English, Vietnamese and Chinese. Our parents wanted a traditional wedding invitation and I wanted a more mordern look to it. I was able to make our parents happy yet at the same time, make my invitation the way I wanted. I was so excited and put my order in for 215 cards. They also called me and asked me if they can change one Chinese word because the word my fiancé’s mother put was not formal whereas everything else was formal. I was glad they were able to catch that. The cards arrived on the date promised and my fiancé was blown away at the design and look I chose. He loves it!
Our wedding invitation was beautiful, elegant and stunning. The raised thermo prints with glitter really gave it that elegant feel to it. Everyone who saw our wedding invitation could not stop complimenting it. I had an amazing experience at AP Printing and I recommended this printing company to all my friends. Thank you!!!

I didn’t know that wedding invitations had so many choices to choose from. I am very detailed oriented when it comes to artsy stuff since I enjoy photography and fine arts.
I went to various different wedding centers and pretty much everything was cookie cutter style catalogs without flexibility and they didn’t do their own design, printing, or manufacturing work.
I found out about AP Printing through a number of friends that all did their invitations there. AP Printing does their own design, layout, printing, and custom manufacturing. Hence, they were able to offer us with so many different choices and ideas for our invitations. Most of our friends did the white /​cream types of invitations with nice bows or some sort of patterned paper design. These all looked very high quality, sharp, and beautiful to us, but we wanted to be different. Hence, we ended up getting an invitation with metallic pocket, custom engraving, custom embossing, metallic translucent overlay for our Chinese writing over Vietnamese and English languages. The cards looked amazing and I loved the ink that you can touch and feel the raised element.
My fiancé and I were sort of trouble makers since we keep changing the wordings during the proof reading cycle due to input from our parents. AP Printing was very nice and didn’t charge us extra for all the proofing changes that we kept asking for.
We had to self assemble the ribbons and multi-​layers in the card with their supplied double sided tape, but it was an easy job. All of the other places required customer self assembly too unless you are willing to pay lots of money to have them pre-​assembled for you.
I also ordered business cards from here too. They turned out perfect too. Lots of options to choose from. I also had the choice of choosing my ink color from this color bar that had thousands of custom mixed colors. I decided to choose full color printing instead of choosing a custom mixed color since there was an extra charge to choose non-​standard pre-​made ink colors.
I highly recommend AP Printing for their quality and service.

First lesson in sales: acknowledge the customer’s presence at least in first 5 min of entrance.
AP printng: I walk in, one girl was helping a couple, I wait for at least 15 min for her to finally look up and see me BUT yet she does not even nod or say «I ll be right w u»…so I wander to look at the sample albums of invites… and then the couple leaves, and I quickly try to get to her, but she quickly scurries in the back room.
Fine, she prob went on a break, I tell myself.
Another girl pops out of the backroom and I had to approach her first to ask her about one of their cards nd then she tells me she does not know the answer, and so she scurries away to the back room to «find the answer»…no one shows up till another 15 minutes.
And finally… someone appears but it is a different salesperson who comes out, she doesn’t even look at me… she goes straigh to her computer. And I ask her if she knows where the person who was out «finding the answer» is, and then she says she doesn t know but will look… and you know how this goes…
Even if their invites were for a penny, I would never tolerate such bs.

My wedding is coming up soon and I haven’t done invitations yet. I found about this place through Unilocal,and it was local. I went last weekend and flipped through many albums of wedding invitations. I wanted one that was traditional with the double happiness symbol and a bit contemporary. Unfortunately, those looked too expensive, so I resorted to the red and gold Chinese wedding invitations.
Wow. The quote is pretty high for these cards. They charge $ 35 for another language. The less fancy cards still cost close to $ 300 for 150 cards.
We decided not to use this place due to the price and the quality of the cards.

I really wanted to like this place.
I read all of the great Unilocal reviews and thought this would be a great place for my wedding invitation needs. I made a phone call to them and asked if it would be okay if I stopped in around noon. The lady just said yes, and hung up. Hmmm.
I went down on my lunch break with a friend and we found the small office with little effort. Upon walking in, there were other guests that we’re being assisted. We sat down and started flipping through the TONS of books. The selection was great. There were two ladies walking around and after about fifteen minutes, I found the invitations that I wanted. Yay!
We waited for 50 minutes. I wish I was exaggerating. The ladies didn’t make eye contact, say hello or make any attempt to acknowledge us. I know they had another guest they were taking care of, but any acknowledgement would have been okay, I understand when people are busy. It was a bummer and I took my business elsewhere.

I hired this place for my wedding invitations. There was a particular style that I knew I wanted for my invitations. the pocket style. I researched everywhere including do it yourself. This place was the cheapest I could find. Their quality was pretty good for the price. I got a lot of compliments on it.
As far as creativity, I would give this place a 3. You need to know what you want because they have so many choices. They don’t offer much for suggestions so just know what you want.
Communication could be difficult.

Great place to get items such as wedding stationary, business cards, etc printed!
Selection: So this place had exactly what I wanted so I will be a bit biased because my wedding invitations were absolutely drop-​dead gorgeous. I got TONS of compliments on them, and Linda ended up making them a sample for future customers. She has TONS of choices, so I wouldn’t go in until you have an idea of what you want otherwise you will be overwhelmed! The papers are all very high quality and they have anything and everything you could want to customize your invitations.
Service/​Pricing: Linda was very sweet and really helped my husband and I when we were choosing, but as was mentioned, assembly was not included, so we ended up having to spend lots and lots of time putting everything together. Another problem we had was that we also ordered menu cards to be printed and she told us she would call us to let us know when it was ready, but she never did so of course, due to all the insane stress the day or two before the wedding, we forgot. Maybe it’s our fault because we forgot about them, but we didn’t want to show up when it wasn’t done. Also, if you are on a tight budget, I wouldn’t go here for invites. I spent about double what I had originally wanted to, but I loved them so I had to overlook that! LOL.
Parking: Private lot. No worries. You’ll always find parking.

Trying to budget on a set of wedding invitations and not spending a lot of time searching and shopping around for a printing store, we came to AP because our married friends had recently ordered their invitations here as well and it turned out nice and we didn’t hear any complaints.
The result was overall okay.
Assembling not included.
Hole punches was provided.
Faxing available to view proof cards.
Other languages available.