[PrintOwners] business card boxes

[Borzou Azabdaftari]

When you run offset all your cost is in the set up, so it really  
doesn't cost you any less to run 100, 250, or 500.  Only the cost of  
the paper, which i negligible.  Digital you pay per click, there is no  
heavy set-up cost, so you can do less.

On May 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Michael Vogel wrote:

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> Geez, whatever happened to minimum and/or standard quantities? Ever
> hear of a thermo house selling lots of 100 or 250 cards? Why is is
> different when you do them digitally? It was just as easy to offset
> print only 100 cards as it now to digitally print just a few. But we
> don't print 100 on press because it doesn't make sense pricewise, not
> because we can't. What's the difference between that and digital?
>
> That said, we do do runs of 250, and have a nice little folding
> 250-card box that we get from S. Walter Packaging.
>
>
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> Michael Vogel
> Sir Speedy Printing
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> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Cora <cpurvine1 at cox.net> wrote:
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>> Scott, I always give the CEO a box<G>, but they always order more  
>> than 150
>> or 250 for themselves.
>>
>> Sometimes if they are not sure an employee is going to stay, is  
>> when they
>> only order 150 or so and they don't care about the box until they  
>> are sure
>> someone is going to stay.
>>
>> For instance, I do business cards for a large non-profit, but they  
>> only want
>> 150 or 250 at a time for some of their new employees. They only  
>> want to pay
>> $12.00 for the 150 so I have it set up that they don't get boxes  
>> for the
>> small orders and they can only order once a month. If the person  
>> doesn't get
>> their order in, they have to wait until the next month. That way I  
>> don't
>> charge a delivery charge and they get them cheaper.
>>
>> They were wanting me to run clear across town for 150 cards for  
>> $12.00 with
>> a box and then take 30 days to pay GRRRRRRRR!!!.
>>
>> I really do have a VERY good relationship with my customers and  
>> know which
>> ones I can get away with this and which ones I can't<G>
>>
>> Class Act Printing and Foil
>> 5801 W. Juno Street
>> Wichita, KS 67215-1742
>> (316) 522-0733
>> cpurvine1 at cox.net
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Regards,

Borzou





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