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# Red Spot Printing, Waltham: a commercial printer in Waltham (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/waltham/red-spot-printing-waltham-ma. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 10 sources. Updated 2026-08-14. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/waltham/red-spot-printing-waltham-ma

## In short

Red Spot Printing, located at 182 Newton Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, has earned a stellar reputation for its exceptional quality and customer service. With a perfect rating of 5 stars from 26 reviews, clients consistently praise the attention to detail and the accommodating nature of the staff. Whether it's vibrant flyers or elegant booklets, the team at Red Spot Printing is known for delivering beautiful results on time, making it a preferred choice for both individuals and local nonprofits. The charming brick building adds to the welcoming atmosphere, where creativity and professionalism come together.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Commercial printer |
| Address | 182 Newton St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (781) 894-2211 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 26 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Red Spot Printing is best known for its exceptional quality and personalized service in the Boston area, making it a preferred choice for various printing projects. Their ability to handle both small and large orders with care sets them apart. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 18, 2026, 8:57 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 182 Newton St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Red Spot Printing was established in 1974, with over 43 years experience, we have earned a reputation for superior quality printing in the greater Boston area. We are known for our top-notch results, competitive pricing, and quick turnarounds. Our capabilities range from simple post cards to corporate stationery, menu's and customized promotional items. Every detail of your project is important to us. At Red Spot Printing, we strive to give our customers the best printing/copying experience by understanding our customers needs and surpassing their expectations. Learn more about our services or click here to request a quote. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Red Spot Printing | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (781) 894-2211 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Award2016 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Award2017 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Co1 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Corporate stationery printing | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Customized promotional items | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Design services | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Digital printing | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Direct mail | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Logo 2 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Menu printing | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Offset printing | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Postcard printing | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Upload files | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/red-spot-printing | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.redspotprinting.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 13 services Red Spot Printing offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Award2016 | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Award2017 | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Co1 | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Corporate stationery printing | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Customized promotional items | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Design services | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Digital printing | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Direct mail | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Logo 2 | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Menu printing | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Offset printing | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Postcard printing | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Upload files | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |


### Known for

- Red Spot Printing is best known for its exceptional quality and personalized service in the Boston area, making it a preferred choice for various printing projects. Their ability to handle both small and large orders with care sets them apart.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Red Spot Printing

Address: 182 Newton St, Waltham, MA 02453, USA. Phone: (781) 894-2211. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Red Spot Printing on its Google Business Profile: "Red Spot Printing was established in 1974, with over 43 years experience, we have earned a reputation for superior quality printing in the greater Boston area. We are known for our top-notch results, competitive pricing, and quick turnarounds. Our capabilities range from simple post cards to corporate stationery, menu's and customized promotional items. Every detail of your project is important to us. At Red Spot Printing, we strive to give our customers the best printing/copying experience by understanding our customers needs and surpassing their expectations. Learn more about our services or click here to request a quote."


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chemistry Station Park | Park | 3 min walk |
| Panela De Barro Restaurant | Brazilian restaurant | 3 min walk |
| Juanitas Kitchen | Restaurant | 3 min walk |
| River St @ Ripley St | Bus stop | 4 min walk |
| River St @ Newton St | Bus stop | 4 min walk |
| River St @ Ripley St | Transit station | 4 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 26 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 13, 2026.)

Red Spot Printing stands out for its exceptional customer service and high-quality printing, making it a preferred choice for local businesses and nonprofits. (AI guess, from 26 reviews.)


### What people like

- High-quality brochures and flyers
- Quick turnaround times
- Attention to detail in printing
- Cost-effective pricing


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Red Spot Printing found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Red Spot Printing

Red Spot Printing hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### anything new from Red Spot Printing lately?

No answer yet


### Any membership pricing at Red Spot Printing?

No answer yet


### is Waltham expensive for this, or is it just here

No answer yet


### what is actually on the menu here?

No answer yet


### best commercial printer in Waltham

No answer yet


### anywhere on Newton to sit while I wait

No answer yet


### walking in for a first visit, what happens

No answer yet


### Somewhere to park near Red Spot Printing?

No answer yet


### which one for High-quality printing with personalized service, Red Spot Printing or TPI Solutions?

No answer yet


### prices round here, anyone got a number

No answer yet


### walk ins, or is it booked solid

No answer yet


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?

No answer yet


### do I need to book this place or can I just turn up?

No answer yet


### Are the hours on Google right for Red Spot Printing in Waltham?

No answer yet


### Saturdays at Red Spot Printing, are they open?

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at Red Spot Printing?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Red Spot Printing

We ask ChatGPT and Gemini about Red Spot Printing. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 34 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Waltham commercial printers run 24 to 42. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Red Spot Printing scores 34, above the Waltham average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Red Spot Printing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 50 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 90 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 66 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a commercial printer

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a commercial printer in Massachusetts, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Massachusetts.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Red Spot Printing if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Red Spot Printing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Red Spot Printing | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.redspotprinting.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Waltham, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City Red Spot Printing is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the commercial printers in Waltham, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best commercial printers in Waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham/commercial-printer
- Best businesses in Waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham


### Nearby

- /boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston
- /cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge
- /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton
- /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville
- /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline
- /wellesley: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/wellesley


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Red Spot Printing. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

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- [7] redspotprinting.com, https://www.redspotprinting.com/home/logo-2/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [8] redspotprinting.com, https://www.redspotprinting.com/offset-printing/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [9] redspotprinting.com, https://www.redspotprinting.com/upload-files/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [10] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)