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    Budgeted Hourly Rates

    We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates from other companies.
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    Pricing digital?

    We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your digital printing cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates...
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    Estimating offset printing cost

    We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates from other companies.
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    Business Partners to provide consulting sales and services

    Profectus printing industry management consultants, is looking for partners that offer accounting, finance, estimating, costing, process improvement, business development, MIS, sales & marketing, or other value-added consulting services to the printing and packaging industry. Do you want to...
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    Quoting Jobs

    Knowing your BHRs is the foundation for estimating your out-of-pocket costs to support your pricing decisions. BHRs are the hourly cost rate in which you must sell your equipment or services in order to break-even or recover your out-of-pocket costs. Some organizations make the mistake of using...
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    Pricing standards for digital color printing.

    Good example of how to come up with pricing for digital using a cost plus markup model: http://costratesadvisor.com/images/example-HP-Indigo-cost-rates.jpg
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    4-Color Hourly Rates...

    Price, Quality, Service - Pick 2? Lowering your hourly rate is not the best practice for pricing. Your hourly rates should reflect your OOP (out of pocket) cost. Once you've determined your OOP using budgeted hourly cost rates software such as http://costratesadvisor.com/ than add your desired...
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    What good is your estimating & costing software if your cost rates are inaccurate?

    What good is your estimating & costing software if your cost rates are inaccurate? How often do you update your equipment cost rates? Read: "How inaccurate Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates almost put Quality Printing out of business." http://costratesadvisor.com/casestudy/ to find out what happens...
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    Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates Software For The Label And Packaging Industry

    How often do you update your equipment cost rates? The beginning of a new year is always a good time to update rates. Companies using www.costratesadvisor.com tend to updated their rates more frequently.
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    Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates Software For The Printing And Packaging Industry

    How often do you update your equipment cost rates? The beginning of a new year is always a good time to update rates. Users of www.costratesadvisor.com tend to updated their rates more frequently. Read: "How inaccurate Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates almost put Quality Printing out of business."...
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    Estimating Click Charges

    Do you includes click charges in your estimating hourly cost rates (BHRs) or do you estimating them separately?
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    Will you be updating your estimating cost rates for 2014?

    Will you be updating your estimating cost rates for 2014? Your printing business evolves. So do your costs. Cost Rates Advisor budgeted hourly cost rates software helps printing and packaging companies keep their equipment and services cost rates up-to-date so they're always recovering costs...
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    Creep, how do you calculate it?

    Creep is equal to caliper of one sheet for every 4 pages. So if your paper caliper is .0032", than you need to add .0032" for every 4 pages.
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    Budgeted Hourly Rates

    New Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates “Cloud” software simplifies the task of calculating budgeted hourly cost rates for your equipment. The Cost Rates Advisor is easy to use, software designed for the printing and packaging industry to take the mystery out of calculating budgeted hourly cost rates for...
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    EPMS + Prinergy = JDF Automation?

    Yes, EPMS has done numerous implementations/integrations with prepress workflow solutions. In most cases they use the JDF standard, but every integration is custom. JDF is not plug-n-play. So you should speak with the people at EPMS directly about your requirements.

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