Krishna Copy Center

Sad to see the negative reviews here, because this little copy center has my eternal thanks. A few months ago, when I was prepping for my field work, I visited no less than five different copy stores in the Berkeley area trying to find a way to print data sheets onto some unusually-​sized field notebook paper. I walked into Krishna Copy center, certain I would be turned away once again, but they met me with a smile and reassurances that they could take care of my printing for me. And they did. The data sheets came out beautifully, the customer service was excellent, and I’ll definitely be back.

This was my go-​to copy shop for years because their prices seemed fair and their service was usually cheerful. After today, I will be going elsewhere.
Krishna has a history of avoiding posting their prices, and I have in the past been charged different amounts depending on who was working the store that day. One woman tried to charge me FOUR DOLLARS for a single 8.5×11 color print-​out on plain paper. (For reference, 69 – 89 cents is typical around here, a dollar would be high but still within range.) I had paid significantly less for the same product during a previous visit. I learned to always ask, but as a semi-​regular customer, I should not have to be that careful.
Today they charged me 2.5 cents per STAPLE, which I had added manually with the stapler provided in their little self-​service island in the middle. We are not talking about a copy add-​on option, for which there is typically a charge. There was no sign, no warning on the stapler, no nothing. I found out about this when they rang me up. I’m glad I did not touch the white-​out.
Normally I prefer to support local businesses, but I make very big exceptions when the business tries to be sneaky.
Krishna made an extra 35 cents off of me today. I hope it was worth the loss of customer and this review.
PLEASE NOTE: Places like Krishna make the bulk of their money off of big orders such as readers. It would not surprise me if reader customers were generally treated better than walk-​ins.

I had an excellent experience at the University Avenue Krishna Copy Center. I received a quote for printing and binding copies of a manuscript. A few days later I e-​mailed it in, and a couple hours later went to the store to see the proof copy. I inadvertently forgot to bring the quote sheet with me.
When I told the assistant I wanted it on heavier paper, he assumed that the quote was for the lighter paper and increased the cost. When I was home and saw the quote was for the heavier paper, I e-​mailed a scan of the quote, and was given an immediate refund.
The service was courteous, helpful, and the order was ready when they promised. Their new office is much bigger and brighter.
Judy T

I like to support local businesses as much as possible before I even think about going to a chain brand store. I always passed by this location of Krishna Copy Center so I thought I give them a try. In their windows and even on the inside, they always like advertise 3 to 4 hot deals. I took the bait of going in there for cheap photo copy prices.
I needed to make less than 50 black and white copies so I figured, I could get this done for about a $ 1 but boy was I wrong. The clerk behind the counter charged me a $ 5 fee for extracting the PDF from my flash drive. He called it «Ripping» fee which sounds right because I was ripped off. Then he charged me additional couple of dollars for folding and stapling fee. By the time he was done, I ended up paying close to $ 10. I didn’t want to make a scene because I had my kids with me. They need to let the customer know all the costs in advance so they can take their business across the street to Copy Central.
I will not go there again. There are so many other copy places in Berkeley and this is the one to avoid. They usually have a person working behind the counter and doing 50 other things around the shop. If you try to catch their attention, they will give you attitude. If I could give them less than one star, i would.

This place is seriously terrible. After driving 40 minutes to pick up the reader which I had reserved I was told they were out. So apparently they gave the reader I RESERVED to someone else. I was then told to call back in 3 days to reserve it again. When I called and reserved it again I asked if they could ship it to me to which I was told they could for $ 15 which is completely outrageous.
Additionally, I was blown away at the lack of professionalism. No one apologized, the staff was rude and when I walked in it took 5 minutes for anyone to even acknowledge my presence. I will never come here again if I can avoid it.

The service here is great! Whenever my printer was being horrible I come here to print or fax anything. Its pretty cheap to get things printed and they are right best campus which helps.

I have to give a shout out to Will, the employee that saved my photoshop illiterate butt. I had a specific project that required photoshop/​word expertise and went to a couple of other copy centers. They all told me they had no idea what I needed or I would be charged 28 bucks for this one image I needed, ONE. Came across Krishna while walking and thought a copy center with a name like Krishna would have to help me (so they wouldn’t accumulate bad karma ;)). And my hunch was right. Will was not only computer savvy but actually showed me what he was doing, made extra copies for me and all for an incredible price. I haven’t experienced customer service like that in… well…hmm…a long time. Thank you soooo much Will!

I’ve had Krishna process two projects for us in the last year and I can say with full confidence that they are always professional, responsive, flexible, and friendly. Mannu is a great project manager, and the copies/​booklets we get back are beautiful quality. Their prices are also extremely competitive and reasonable. This place is my go-​to copy center, and my boss agrees.

I received terrible customer service and a poor quality product for a marked up price, and I would not recommend this store to anyone.
I came in looking to self-​print a few hundred pages of b/​w pdf files from a flash drive. I called ahead of time for a price estimate and was given a reasonable per page price. When I arrived I was told there was an additional $ 10 «service charge» which I had not been quoted on the phone. Because I was in a rush, I said fine. When I returned to pick up my documents they were in a disorganized pile, out of order, unstapled, and with extra copy pages in between each document. I complained and asked what the $ 10 service charge was for if they weren’t going to present me with a finished product. The staff member helping me was unprofessional and rude and stated that I should «stop complaining» and that I «didn’t tell him» he needed to do any of that stuff. Eventually I got a different (much friendlier) staff person to come over and actually go through my documents and staple them, but when I arrived home I discovered that several were still put together incorrectly (ie, some pages upside down, etc.). And one of my documents was missing entirely!
I will never be returning here, and I would not recommend this store to anyone.

I have to give Krishna Copy high marks for getting my projects done on time and at great prices. I have had it with the high prices of Kinkos/​Fedex. I get the same quality of work done at Krishna for ¹⁄₃ the cost. Every time I have been in the staff has been more than helpful. The woman who does the graphic arts is talented and her rates are really good too.

First off, a lot of these reviews seem fake/​done by Krishna Copy center themselves.
The place is a mess, it looks like they opened the store but didn’t finish setting the place up.
I literally just paid $ 1.68 for ONE black and white copy. W.T.F.
Had I not been strapped for time, I would have told them to shove the copy up their behinds.
The staff was alright, but c’mon. I walked in expecting to be jipped (maybe like 25 cents for a copy) but $ 1.68? How do you even justify that. Copies are 14 cents on campus and even that’s a high markup.
Take your business somewhere else if you’re not trying to have a book printed or something.

These guys are amazing! I brought my thesis to be printed and bound and they did it in about ten minutes. The services was friendly and efficient.

I got my research poster for a scientific conference printed here yesterday in the morning and it was done in the afternoon. The quality was great! Reasonable price.

The absolute worst experience of my life!
The manager (Indian? Wears a ball cap. Maybe in his 30’s) is so unprofessional and rude.
I was going to Krisna once a month for awhile. I liked working with the other kids when I had to copy something. When the manager was around, it was a different story. Awful!
Today, he did some things that will not make me ever go back.
I walked in and saw him in the back. I walked over to him to see when someone would be available to help me with my copy needs. He said, «You can’t walk in here so fast, that is very rude». What? I told him that he can’t talk to me or any other customer like that. He proceeded to tongue lash me. I told him that I have brought alot of business to Krisna (from me and from others). He told me, «Who cares?, I don;t want your business». He then told me to leave his store or he would call the police. I told him, «For what? For you being rude to me and me telling you that you can’t talk to me that way?». He then yelled some more. As I was walking out he followed me and I said, «Do you know who I am? I am a customer». He shot back a very snide, «I don’t care who you are». Then, he laughed. I couldn’t believe it. I was shook up.
I have been warned about him in the past. I gritted my teeth anytime I had to deal with him. However, today was way over the edge.
He insulted the way I walk. He told me that he doesn’t care about my business.
The staff looked so uncomfortable. An older lady that works there kept whispering «sorry» to me and tried to stop him from insulting me.
Well, that is it. I have not experienced anything like that in a store in my life.
I took my business elsewhere. The owner at the new place I do business with now, told me that the guy at Krishna has a bad reputation.
Awful.
That man needs anger management, to get out of public relations and learn some manners and respect.

Make sure to say you are a student to get the discounted price! It was the cheapest one that I found (2.8 cents per page). The cashier didn’t calculate the price, but he let me take out the difference when I was paying for the binding. Service was a bit slow, but can’t beat the prices.
Note: they are NOT affiliated with the Krishna on Telegraph.

I second what Adele F said a few months ago. We had Krishna do a tiny little job for us. They were by far the cheapest option, but the service and quality was all that we could wish for. Mannu went *way* above the call of duty; he pointed out to us that the resolution of the pictures we gave him was too low; so we sent him original jpgs and he basically recreated our layout for us, with the better pics. Ultimate product was much better than we expected. Very happy customer.

3ft x 4ft poster for $ 50? 5 stars.
I’ve worked with Krishna twice in the span of 2 weeks for two separate engagements, and they are fantastic. Mannu is incredibly responsive and helpful, and they try their best to get your order out beautifully, quickly, cost-​efficiently, and hassle-​free.
Personally, I had a research poster I needed to be printed for the poster session on Friday. I called them on Wednesday afternoon, and they said that a 3 FT x 4 FT POSTER on regular poster paper would cost $ 4 per square foot, or $ 48 before tax. I emailed them the PDF file of my poster on Wednesday evening, and they had my poster ready for me the next day at 11 AM (although they give themselves a 24 hour turnaround time). After tax, the poster cost me $ 52.20, which in my opinion is the cheapest option in Berkeley. The paper was thick and sturdy, the colors vibrant, the sizing spot on, and everything looked sublime (except for a content mistake on my part). I had a great poster session with a wonderfully printed poster by my side.
My second experience with them was through the student groups PILLS. We had our 6^th Annual Northern California Pre-​Pharmacy Symposium coming up, and we needed to print 350 BROCHURES that were each 40 pages with a color cover, along with two 2 FT x 3 FT AGENDAS on FOAMBOARD. Our estimates priced our projects at $ 1.02 + Tax/​Program and each 2′ x 3′ mounted board = $ 51.00 + Tax/​board. Through our intensive email correspondence, they found out that we had a sizing issue with our brochure, and they took the initiative to send us a demo page of what automatic resizing on their part (versus manual resizing on our part) would look like. In essence, it looked horrible, so we sent them an edited PDF file on Wednesday afternoon and asked for a sample brochure to be printed. After looking over the sample brochure and fixing some border issues, we okayed our order for mass printing on Thursday in preparation for the event on Saturday.
But, if things can go wrong, they will. We caught some typos and changed them Wednesday evening, emailing them our final final PDF version early Thursday morning. Fortunately, they hadn’t started on our project, so they printed our edited file and had all 350 brochures and our agendas ready by Friday afternoon for pick-​up. Our total was upward of $ 550.
With their quality, speed, competitive pricing, and excellent customer service, Krishna Copy is at the top of my list for printing. Bring your posters and projects here! You won’t be disappointed!

We do our yearly language journal at this location and they’re SO easy to work with and always defy odds. We been doing the publication for the past 3 years so — they have yet to fail us. The only drama is always on our end.
They are beyond real and go beyond their way to contact us with a complication — even late at night they email us about a lost page or a darn typo and I appreciate that so much as the layout designer. They are super quick and easy, highest recommendation!

If I could give half or even ¹⁄₃ of a star I would. I have gone to Krisha in the past and agree with perfectly acceptable results, they actually saved my butt a couple of years ago on a color copy job that had been botched by another printer. So when I needed labels printed for a candy bar fundraiser, I figured they’d be up for it. I called they told me 15 cents per page with my own labels (which needed to be laser compatible) Picked up my labels from Royal Mailers in emeryville (great folks ¼ the cost of comparbable Avery Laser Labels).
I showed up with my labels and was told NO. I said look these are from a large mail house and have guaranteed that they are laser compatible, how about I call them and you can talk to them. NO, we can’t help you, we won’t consider it. She basically was saying I don’t believe you and I won’t believe them. I gave her a big piece of my mind and stormed out.
Went across the street to Copy Central. No problem they say, 7 cents a
copy. Don’t even bother to go in.
Maybe they’ve changed management, but the woman in charge these days (used to be a guy, who was always helpful) had no interest in making me a happy customer. I hope all their bad business kharma comes around soon.

Krishna Copy is my go-​to copy center. Forget Staples, forget Copy Central, etc. Krishna has never once failed me, and I work for a company that deals with them all of the time.
It makes me sad to see so many negative reviews because I’m always treated so well. Mannu meets impossible deadlines, without any attitude or unprofessionalism. My documents are always correct and they are really good about getting back to me in a timely manner. They will deliver in the RAIN if we need them to.
They are just always friendly and great, which is nice when Staples is so incompetent and cold.