Can I promote my printing-related product or service here?
Only if it is an individual used-equipment sale, a helpful tutorial with no promotion inside, a legitimate job posting, or a genuine industry discussion with no promotional content.
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r/CommercialPrinting rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/CommercialPrinting: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 31,354
- Verified
- September 18, 2026
- Category
- Consultants and professional services operators
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- Spam: Spam will be removed and first-time offenders banned. Posts made primarily to drive traffic, sales, signups, or engagement outside the subreddit will be removed First-time spam offenders may be permanently banned at moderator discretion, especially when the account appears to be posting in bad faith.
- Off-Topic Posts: /r/CommercialPrinting is a community for prepress, designers, operators, and lovers of the commercial printing industry. This is not the place for questions about your home printer, local copy shop, or screen printing. Off-topic posts will be subject to removal. Feel free to discuss: file prep, techniques, opinions, design, and more.
- No Business Self-Promotion: Posts whose main purpose is to advertise a company, service, website, product, coupon, referral link, or paid offering are not allowed. This includes lead generation, and disguised advertising. Allowed exceptions include individual used-equipment sales, helpful tutorials or educational resources, legitimate job postings, and industry discussions, as long as they are relevant to commercial printing and not promotional or contain promotions.
Works well
- Share a detailed tutorial on file prep for commercial print, like how to set up bleeds and crop marks correctly, with no product links inside.
- Post a legitimate job opening for a prepress operator or press operator, written plainly with role details and no company marketing language.
- List a piece of used commercial printing equipment you are selling as an individual, with specs and condition, and no promotional framing.
- Start a discussion about a specific printing technique, like comparing spot color vs process color results, and invite opinions from operators.
- Ask a real technical question about file prep or press operation that commercial printing professionals would recognize as authentic.
Avoid
- Posts whose main purpose is to advertise a company, service, website, product, coupon, referral link, or paid offering will be removed under the No Business Self-Promotion rule.
- Do not post about home printers, local copy shops, or screen printing, as the Off-Topic Posts rule covers these explicitly.
- Do not post anything primarily to drive traffic, sales, signups, or engagement outside the subreddit, since the Spam rule bans first-time offenders.
- Do not disguise advertising as discussion, since the No Business Self-Promotion rule calls out disguised advertising by name.
- Do not sneak promotional content into a tutorial or job post, since the allowed exceptions only apply when there is no promotion inside.
What r/CommercialPrinting Is For
This community is for prepress professionals, designers, press operators, and anyone who loves the commercial printing industry. People come here to talk about file prep, printing techniques, opinions, design, and related industry topics. It is explicitly not a place for home printer questions, local copy shop topics, or screen printing. The focus is squarely on commercial printing work and the people who do it.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
The three rules that matter most are Spam, Off-Topic Posts, and No Business Self-Promotion. The Spam rule is blunt: posts made primarily to drive traffic, sales, signups, or engagement outside the subreddit will be removed, and first-time offenders may be permanently banned at moderator discretion. The Off-Topic Posts rule keeps the community focused on commercial printing and explicitly excludes home printers, local copy shops, and screen printing. The No Business Self-Promotion rule blocks anything whose main purpose is to advertise a company, service, website, product, coupon, referral link, or paid offering, including lead generation and disguised advertising. It does list allowed exceptions: individual used-equipment sales, helpful tutorials or educational resources, legitimate job postings, and industry discussions, as long as they are relevant to commercial printing and not promotional or contain promotions.
What To Post
A good post here is a genuine contribution to the commercial printing conversation with zero promotional intent. You could share a helpful tutorial about file prep or a printing technique, as long as it teaches something real and does not pitch your product. You could post a legitimate job opening in commercial printing, or list a piece of used printing equipment you are selling individually. You could also start an industry discussion about a technique, a design challenge, or an opinion on a printing trend. The key is that the post stands on its own as useful or interesting to commercial printing professionals, and nothing inside it pushes people toward your business.
What To Avoid
Avoid anything that looks like it exists to drive traffic or sales, because the Spam rule is enforced hard here and first-time offenders can be permanently banned. Do not post about home printers, local copy shops, or screen printing, since the Off-Topic Posts rule removes those. Do not post disguised advertising or lead generation, because the No Business Self-Promotion rule calls those out directly. Even if you are posting inside an allowed exception like a tutorial or job post, do not include any promotional content, because the rule says the exception only holds when the post is not promotional or does not contain promotions.
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Common questions about r/CommercialPrinting
Can I ask about my home printer here?
No. The community description and the Off-Topic Posts rule both say this is not the place for home printer questions.
Is screen printing on topic here?
No. The description and rules explicitly exclude screen printing as off-topic.
Will I get banned on my first offense?
Yes, first-time spam offenders may be permanently banned at moderator discretion, especially when the account appears to be posting in bad faith.
Can I share a tutorial I wrote?
Yes, as long as it is relevant to commercial printing and contains no promotional content, since helpful tutorials are listed as an allowed exception.
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