Price Competition

gordo

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Our company has new ownership about 4-5 years back so I get... "but the old owner did x,y,z".

There's a reason the old owner left and prices actually DO go up over time.
 
Just received, in response to a quote for a four part job comprising 2 x letters, 1 x flyer, 1 x booklet...

"We will be going ahead with items (2), (3) and (4).For the booklet, we've decided to go to our long-term printer who has offered a significantly lower price"...
Could I ask what (if any) cost impact there would be if the two letters were in colour rather than black & white?"

:rolleyes:
 
Just received, in response to a quote for a four part job comprising 2 x letters, 1 x flyer, 1 x booklet...

"We will be going ahead with items (2), (3) and (4).For the booklet, we've decided to go to our long-term printer who has offered a significantly lower price"...
Could I ask what (if any) cost impact there would be if the two letters were in colour rather than black & white?"

:rolleyes:
Love it!
 
In the Golden Age of Printing’s Yesteryear, some printers used to offer free color days throughout the week.
I worked at a small shop during that 'golden age' ago where we did this. We also did 'leftover paper' sales. We had shelves full of leftover paper when a job didn't use a full ream, or maybe we over-ordered for setup sheets. The stacks of paper got so overwhelming at some point that we made a special where the paper was basically free, but your job will be printed on 15 different types of paper. Customers who just needed b/w flyers were happy to take us up on this offer!
 
I worked at a small shop during that 'golden age' ago where we did this. We also did 'leftover paper' sales. We had shelves full of leftover paper when a job didn't use a full ream, or maybe we over-ordered for setup sheets. The stacks of paper got so overwhelming at some point that we made a special where the paper was basically free, but your job will be printed on 15 different types of paper. Customers who just needed b/w flyers were happy to take us up on this offer!
When I worked quick printing many years ago we would periodically gather up all of the "leftover paper" and make scratch pads out of it. The pads would be a mix of linen, laid, astrobrights, gloss. I think NCR even made it in at times. Divide them up in 1" thick pads with no chipboard. The customers would buy those like crazy for 50 cents a pad.
 
When I worked quick printing many years ago we would periodically gather up all of the "leftover paper" and make scratch pads out of it. The pads would be a mix of linen, laid, astrobrights, gloss. I think NCR even made it in at times. Divide them up in 1" thick pads with no chipboard. The customers would buy those like crazy for 50 cents a pad.
LOL - we used to do the same thing - except we didn't charge - people were grabbing piles of them!
 
I worked at a small shop during that 'golden age' ago where we did this. We also did 'leftover paper' sales. We had shelves full of leftover paper when a job didn't use a full ream, or maybe we over-ordered for setup sheets. The stacks of paper got so overwhelming at some point that we made a special where the paper was basically free, but your job will be printed on 15 different types of paper. Customers who just needed b/w flyers were happy to take us up on this offer!
Long ago my first boss would buy out the stock of printers going out of business. We cut the card stocks to print business cards. Customers could choose from plenty of stocks - linen, cordwain, whatever color - as long as the print was black, for a really cheap price.
 

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