Survey printing and personalisation

Your approved form is printed to the specifications it was designed to meet. It can also be personalised so each copy carries the information needed for that respondent or site.

What we do. Forms are printed in Australia through our print partners, to the scanning specifications. Supporting materials such as covering letters, instructions, handouts and envelopes are printed alongside as required, ready for individual mail-outs or bulk distribution.

Colour. Every scannable form is printed in at least two colours: black for the text, and a red-spectrum dropout colour around the response areas. The scanner is built to ignore the dropout colour, so it sees the respondent's mark and not the printed box. Full colour usually costs no more than two, so your approved colour palette, imagery and branding can carry through the form. We reconcile these with readability and scanning requirements during design, before the artwork is approved.

Formats and stock.

• A4 single sheets, one or two sides
• Saddle-stitched booklets, 4 to 36 pages, folded where needed to fit the envelope
• Standard or recycled stock, with recycled stock available on request

Personalisation. Each form can be individualised as it's printed:

• Respondent ID, printed as digits and as a barcode
• Lithocode or sequential form number
• QR code to your online survey for mixed-mode collection, or carrying the respondent ID
• A login unique to each respondent, printed on the form or letter, so an online response comes back against the same record as a paper one
• Name and address positioned for a window envelope, so the form and the letter travel together without a separate label
• Pre-filled fields such as site, school, ward, class or wave, so information that should already be known is not left blank or filled incorrectly

Guarantee. If a form we printed fails to scan because of a print defect, we replace it or capture the data another way, at no cost to you.

What you get. Forms that scan, personalised where required, with the supporting printed materials agreed for your project.

A coordinated set of printed materials

The questionnaire is only one part of the pack. Letters, participant information sheets, instructions, handouts, postcards and envelopes can follow the same approved visual approach, with artwork and production included in the project scope as required.

Using your supplied content, we can prepare professional graphic design and print-ready artwork to your brand guidelines or style guide, print specifications and relevant accessibility or clear print requirements. See our form design and supporting artwork service.